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2023 International Booker Prize, Longlist New York Times Editors' Choice "A real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence."--The New York Times Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save ... Read More about The Birthday Party

In March 2020, a young woman spends the night in the Louvre. At home: her nine-month-old son. In her overnight bag: a notebook, a toiletry kit, a duvet, a cube of nougat, and something that shouldn't be there. In her head: memories of the Venus de Milo, of land art and the American road, of romance ... Read More about Like a Sky Inside

A NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis "What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion into both language and sound, an intersection... Read More about What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern has been printing issues since 1998, and sending them into the world with reckless faith. Now and then, the world writes back. In two decades and change, we've accumulated a heady archive of dispatches, pleas, confessions, treatises, ruminations, rants, raves, and the o... Read More about Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer

Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a s... Read More about The Birthday Party