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4 days ago · A novel is a long, fictional narrative. The novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style. The development of the prose novel at this time was encouraged by innovations in printing, and the introduction of cheap paper in the 15th century. Several characteristics of a novel might include:
10 hours ago · The Amsterdam novel has been in my head for years. A London Irish novel has been in my head for years, because I spent quite a bit of my early twenties in London in the early 90s, so I have a strong sense of that period there, just when the city was starting to gentrify and really change from the twentieth century into the twenty-first.
Jun 25, 2024 · W hat are the novels everyone is talking about in summer 2024?. Well, it depends on who you ask. But let’s start with some recent prizewinners. The winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was announced last month; Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel Night Watch is a mother-daughter story set in a West Virginia asylum in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
5 days ago · William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy,” published anonymously by Isaiah Thomas & Company, is widely cited as something momentous: the first American novel. Around 100 pages long, Brown’s narrative tells of two young New Englanders whose love affair abruptly and tragically ends when they learn a shocking secret that makes their ...
2 days ago · NPR's Scott Simon asks Liz Moore about her new novel "The God of the Woods," set in the Adirondack mountains in 1975. Moore also wrote 2020's best-selling "Long Bright River."
Jul 1, 2024 · The Matrix star Keanu Reeves’s debut sci-fi novel is out this month, written in collaboration with old hand China Miéville, and we also have new books from Adam Roberts and Aliette de Bodard
1 day ago · The novel follows the younger generation of Jews in the Fletcher family, heirs to the wealth of a Long Island styrofoam factory started by their grandfather who, yes, survived the Holocaust. The ...
