Hamilton Cain Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Hamilton Cain

Amid a spike in white nationalism, as our country reels from threats within, Walter seeks deeper bonds of affection, a holistic vision of We the People, even if it’s a mirage...A Witty Caper Starring Gun-Toting Christians in Rural Washington.

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Enríquez unflinchingly regards the pain of others ... Feels as vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales. Considered by many to be a Nobel contender, Enríquez is surely on a path to Stockholm.

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We recognize her elliptical voice even as she delights in throwing us off balance ... She flavors her pieces with piercing observations, a pinch of irony, and her signature moxie. She’s still got it, still mulling the riddles we pose to each other, and to ourselves.

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Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud. Aria Aber’s splendid Good Girl introduces just such a voice.

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My critic's choice for @StribBooks is Anthony Doerr's "Cloud Cuckoo Land," out from @ScribnerBooks: https://www.startribune.com/holiday-books-2021-50-essential-books-for-winter-reading-and-holiday-shopping-fiction-nonfiction/600120008/

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May be [Lepore's] best yet, a capacious work that lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water. She’s not here to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic; she’s here to convey — in vigorous, crystal-clear sentences — what we’re losing, and why.

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Spare, absorbing... Kane is true to the muse at the center of her novel, highlighting not only Penelope Fitzgerald’s stature and vision but also the necessity of literature in an era of university budget cuts and social-media distractions.

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It’s been 12 years since the maestro Thomas Pynchon’s last novel, and his 2025 release had fans ready and eager to reenter his world. Set in 1932, Shadow Ticket is simultaneously caper, quest, farce, and political commentary rolled into a linguistically experimental tale.

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Jonathan Franzen's sumptuous "Crossroads" is not only about the implosion of a Midwestern pastor's family in 1971, it's also a novel in conversation with other literary works, including the Old Testament's "Ecclesiastes." My review for @OprahDaily: https://t.co/tW7Tsq0iso

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Nobody writes like her, those lissome lines and abundance of commas. She’s one of the few who can pull off tell-don’t-show ... An alluring addition to an oeuvre whose works are larger on the inside than the outside, rendered in glittering sentences.