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Cynthia-Marie Marmo O’Brien is a writer and educator in New York.

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Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'Afterlives,' which was not published in the United States until 2022.
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Cynthia-Marie Marmo O'Brien
By letting others in, we enable them to do the work of God.
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In 'Vigil Harbor,' Julia Glass shares a complex tale about a town’s history of close encounters with violence, but also about the open and helpful community that unintentionally enables some of the calamities that ensue.
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In 'The Body Scout,' Lincoln Michel explores the limits of what it means to be human through a future in which companies tempt consumers with upgrades—new arms, organs and more.
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The latest novel by Richard Powers, "Bewilderment," is a meditation on love for our planet as well as our individual love for one another.
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Sarah Ramey in her new book: "My case went unsolved for fourteen years because no one would listen to me and the reason they would not listen to me is because I am a woman.”
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In Solid Seasons, Jeffrey S. Cramer explores the deep friendship between the two literary titans.
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Andrew Krivak's new novel is an elegiac tale that resonates deeply with the creation spirituality that has been rising in our collective imagination.
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Paley knew by instinct what science now confirms: the role reading plays in developing empathy for the other.
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The challenge of invisibility is paramount in 'The Refugees.'