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Jane Ciabattari

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Doesn't Cover: romance, children's books, extbooks
Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [@BBC_Culture @LitHub] Community [@bookcritics @SFGrotto @BayBookFest @Litcampwriters]
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The 21st Century's 12 greatest novels

The 21st Century's 12 greatest novels

Which works of fiction since 2000 will stand the test of time? BBC Culture polled several dozen critics to se…

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'Thirteen Ways' Takes A Powerful, Layered Look At Life

'Thirteen Ways' Takes A Powerful, Layered Look At Life

Colum McCann's first story collection since his novel Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award ma…

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'Mothers' Tells Stories Too Often Silenced

'Mothers' Tells Stories Too Often Silenced

Bonnie Jo Campbell burst upon the literary landscape in 2009 with a collection called American Salvage that w…

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Five Books Making News This Week: Prizes, Presidents, and Pond Philosophers

Five Books Making News This Week: Prizes, Presidents, and Pond Philosophers

Another banner week for literary culture passes. Marlon James celebrates his Man Booker award by writing abou…

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Five Books Making News This Week

Five Books Making News This Week

The sultry dog days of 2015 have been marked by a surprising and distinct quickening of attention in the lite…

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The 11 greatest children's books

The 11 greatest children's books

About the author Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has wri…

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2015's best beach reads

2015's best beach reads

About the author Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has wri…

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Ten books to read in June

Ten books to read in June

About the author Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has wri…

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Ten books to read in May

Ten books to read in May

From novels to a collection of essays on Nasa, the month brings many new titles worth cracking open, writes J…

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Ten books to read in April

Ten books to read in April

From novels to collections of essays and short stories, the month brings a literary bounty. These titles shou…

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Ten books to read in March

Ten books to read in March

The first novel in 10 years from Kazuo Ishiguru, a reimagining of Wuthering Heights and other reads Jane Ciab…

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A Haunting, Victorian-Inflected Dystopia In 'The Mime Order'

A Haunting, Victorian-Inflected Dystopia In 'The Mime Order'

The Bone Season, the first in Samantha Shannon's intoxicating urban-fantasy series set in 2059 in Scion (a dy…

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Ten books to read in February

Ten books to read in February

About the author Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has wri…

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New Year's reading resolutions

New Year's reading resolutions

Proust’s seven-volume masterpiece, published between 1913 and 1927, is often on quite a few "Books I promise …

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Ten books to read in 2015

Ten books to read in 2015

About the author Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has wri…

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The 10 best books of 2014

The 10 best books of 2014

About the author Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has wri…

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A New Collection, Well-Furnished With Munro's Best

A New Collection, Well-Furnished With Munro's Best

Selected Stories, 1995-2014 Hardcover, 576 pages | purchase The citation for Alice Munro's 2013 Nobel Prize i…

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Dylan Thomas: Rock 'n' roll poet

Dylan Thomas: Rock 'n' roll poet

Dylan Thomas, whose centenary is on 27 October, was a prodigy who became a living legend, the first poet to b…

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The Stories In 'Bright Shards' Glimmer With Empathetic Power

The Stories In 'Bright Shards' Glimmer With Empathetic Power

Bright Shards of Someplace Else is Monica McFawn's first collection of short stories, and it's already won th…

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Is Borges the 20th Century's most important writer?

Is Borges the 20th Century's most important writer?

Reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is like discovering a new letter in the alphabet, or…

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'The Kills' Sustains Suspense Across A Massive Structure

'The Kills' Sustains Suspense Across A Massive Structure

Sutler, the Massive, the Kill, and the Hit Hardcover, 1002 pages | purchase Richard House's thriller The Kill…

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The 10 best new books to read

The 10 best new books to read

About the author Jane Ciabattari is a journalist and book critic based in New York and California who has wri…

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The French Riviera: 'A sunny place for shady people'

The French Riviera: 'A sunny place for shady people'

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Somerset Maugham show the shady side of the French Riviera. Between th…

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Whodunnit? Crime writers to read now

Whodunnit? Crime writers to read now

As the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival begins, Jane Ciabattari picks 10 masters of the genre w…

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