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Russell Banks
An expansive historical novel about John Brown. Through the viewpoint of Brown’s son, it explores the tangled relations among ideals, violence, family, and belief, and powerfully illuminates the ethical dilemmas of the struggle against slavery.
D. M. Thomas
D. M. Thomas's biography interweaves Solzhenitsyn's life with Russian history. It follows persecution, exile, and return while tying the writer's work to the political world around it.
Ted Hughes
A poetry collection in which Ted Hughes revisits his relationship with Sylvia Plath through memory, grief, and regret. The poems are intimate and confessional, but they remain tightly controlled and formally alert.
Boris Schreiber
This vast autobiographical novel follows a boyhood marked by war from 1935 to 1945, using several narrative voices. At its core are the lies needed to survive and the stubborn will to write.
Philip Roth
Operation Shylock is a metafictional novel with a protagonist who resembles the author himself. Set in Israel, it incisively questions imitation and authenticity, identity, and the instability of Jewish belonging.
Alice McDermott
A novel of love, memory, and loss that follows a man whose life is marked by alcoholism and regret.
Michael M. Smith
A city-based SF novel with a mystery shape, it follows a strange job that pulls the protagonist down through layers of reality and memory. It is known for blending humor with unease.
ALIZINA STONE DALE
A guidebook that connects mystery fiction to real walking routes through Washington, D.C.
Hermione Lee
A novel that moves from Prague to London and follows interior lives shaped by love and political pressure.
Mart\Xedn Espada
A politically charged poetry collection about labor, oppression, solidarity, and the longing for justice.
Nancy Rawles
家族やコミュニティ、食文化を通じて人間関係を描く小説。南部文化の色彩が反映されるフィクション。