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My Favorite Books of 2017

Why I Write About Iraqis: Novelist Helen Benedict on the obligations of fiction

National Book Awards finalists announced; 15 of 20 are women

National Book Foundation honors "5 Under 35" -- and they're all women

Turning her mother's life into fiction: Anne Raeff talks with Barbara Ridley about her new Holocaust novel, WHEN IT'S OVER

Eight women make National Book Awards fiction longlist

THE OTHER SIDE: a powerful portrait of rape and recovery

TO LAY TO REST OUR GHOSTS explores haunted family relationships with empathy and grace

Behind the Book: Siobhan Fallon's THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES

Five great reads you may have missed (Part 2 in a series)

A conversation with Paulette Jiles on writing NEWS OF THE WORLD

NEWS OF THE WORLD takes readers on the memorable journey of an old man and an Indian girl across a lawless Texas in 1870

Five Worthwhile Books You May Have Missed (Part 1 in a series)

THE CONFUSION OF LANGUAGES explores female friendship amid cultural conflicts in Jordan

Actor-turned-writer Gina Sorell: How "Method Writing" led to my first novel

Emilia Bassano Lanyer: Was she the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets?

Remarkable poetry debut depicts with insight and compassion the world of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

A HOUSE WITHOUT WINDOWS offers a view into a wife's legal struggle in Afghanistan

'ROUND MIDNIGHT: a tapestry of four diverse lives set against 50 years of a changing Las Vegas

Janet Benton: How keeping a diary changed my life, as a daughter and a writer

Novey wins Jewish Book Council's Sami Rohr Prize for debut novel, WAYS TO DISAPPEAR

MONSTERS IN APPALACHIA: a compelling contemporary take on Southern Gothic desire, temptation, and elusive salvation

MOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS a suspenseful study of a fraught mother-daughter relationship

Feminist Fiction: Turning the Tide

Jung Yun's long and unlikely path to publication, from Fargo to NYC and beyond

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney shares the story of her late success at Pasadena Festival of Women Authors

Randy Susan Meyers on Likable Characters, Betty Crocker, and Excusing Violence

American Academy of Arts and Letters honors 19 writers, including Haigh, Spiotta, Sinclair

A Reading List for Men Who Talk to Me About Hemingway

New York Public Library announces Young Lions Fiction Award finalists

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction announces longlist of nominees

1999-2013: The Short, Sad Life of an Unsuccessful Novelist

WAYS TO DISAPPEAR uses the contradictions of modern Brazil to explore the ways we translate everything in our lives

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes finalists announced

ORPHAN TRAIN'S Christina Baker Kline on the genesis of a novel

Non Sequiturs: Finding Literary Inspiration in Stream of Consciousness

THE GIRLS mostly lives up to its hype, but in unexpected ways

All finalists for Barnes & Noble's "Discover Great New Writers" fiction award are women

PEN America announces 2017 Literary Awards finalists

Aline Ohanesian: Turning the trans-generational grief of genocide into historical fiction

THE JUNGLE AROUND US: STORIES probes the mysteries of people and places