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'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë
'Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!'—Review #272
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9 Novels I Loved in 2025
Our annual Books on GIFt guide features books by Solvej Balle, Percival Everett and Colson Whitehead, as well as indie presses and bookstores where you…
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'Butcher's Crossing' by John Williams
'And no more dreams; I take what I can get when I can get it, and worry about nothing else.'—Review #271
Dec 7, 2025
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'Martyr!' by Kaveh Akbar
'An alphabet, like a life, is a finite set of shapes. With it, one can produce almost anything.'—Review #270
Nov 23, 2025
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'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin
'And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.'—Review…
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'Butcher's Crossing' by John Williams
'And no more dreams; I take what I can get when I can get it, and worry about nothing else.'—Review #271
Dec 7, 2025
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'Texas: The Great Theft' by Carmen Boullosa
'You'd have to be shameless to do that. Their hands are full but they keep taking more.'—Review #254
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'True Grit' by Charles Portis
'No, I will see the thing done myself.'—Review #221
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'Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West' by Cormac McCarthy
'What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.'—Review #191
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