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Cover Face-Off: THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Karen Thompson Walker

One of the biggest books of 2012 is hitting paperback on January 15th with a whole new look. Take a peek ...

Cover Face-Off: BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK

Ben Fountain’s National Book Award finalist (and one of my favorite books of the year) is headed to paperback later this ...

Cover Face-Off: ARCADIA by Lauren Groff

Arcadia rocked my face off when it came out in hardcover this spring (I am quite perplexed about its omission ...

Cover Face-Off: AMERICAN DERVISH by Ayad Akhtar

American Dervish spawned lots of discussion about the Muslim-American experience and development of religious identities when it came out in ...

Cover Face-Off: THE STRANGER’S CHILD by Alan Hollinghurst

Secrets. Haunting sensuality. Exquisite lyricism. The lingering power of desire. All of this language appears in the publisher’s description of ...

Cover Face-Off: Margaret Atwood’s IN OTHER WORLDS

Part-memoir, part-lit crit, all awesome, Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination is a contemplation of the evolution ...