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Fatima Bhutto Writes About an Abusive Relationship and a Bond with an Animal. Both at Once.

Fatima Bhutto's new memoir investigates an abusive human relationship and a sustaining connection with the nonhuman. What does that say about us? Quite a lot.

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Helen Garner's Collected Stories and the Uneasy Vessel of Short Fiction

A new review of Helen Garner's collected stories argues that the short story form is an uneasy vessel for her work. I am not sure that is a criticism. Unease, in Garner, is usually the point.

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Is Prestige Fiction Dead? That Depends on Who You Ask

A recent essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books conducts what it calls a 'depressing literary autopsy' of prestige fiction's decline. But before the funeral, it's worth asking: prestige for whom?

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Lauren J. Joseph's New Novel Turns the Trans Rock Muse Into Something Wilder

Lauren J. Joseph's <em>Lean Cat, Savage Cat</em> takes the trans rock muse archetype and returns it its voice, body, and desire — a novel that refuses every apology.