Results for "Novey, Idra"

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian Author Pick, and Today Finalist for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeLonglisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award “A heart-rending book,... Read More about Take What You Need: A Novel

Lispector’s most shocking novel. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door—crushing the cockroach—and then watches it... Read More about The Passion According to G.H.

A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the... Read More about A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

New poetry by the author of acclaimed 2023 novel Take What You Need faces the complexities of life on a swiftly heating earth.Idra Novey's first collection in a decade, since Patricia Smith chose Exit, Civilian for the National Poetry Series, brings a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era. The p... Read More about Soon and Wholly (Wesleyan Poetry)

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian Author Pick, and TodayLonglisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize“A heart-rending book, but also a beautiful celebration of ‘th... Read More about Take What You Need: A Novel

In her second collection, Idra Novey steps in and out of jails, courthouses, and caves to explore what confinement means in the twenty-first century. From the beeping doors of a prison in New York to cellos playing in a former jail in Chile, she looks at prisons that have opened, closed, and transfo... Read More about Exit, Civilian: Poems (National Poetry)