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New Books in Literature
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Episodes
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Eric Chopra, "Ghosted" (Speaking Tiger, 2026)
Delhi is haunted—by its ghosts, its ruins, and its unending capacity for rebirth. In the shadow of medieval mosques and Mughal tombs, the past refuses to stay…
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Hollay Ghadery, "The Unravelling of Ou" (Palimpsest Press, 2026)
In this NBN episode, award-winning and celebrated author Farzana Doctor interviews Hollay Ghadery about her novel, The Unravelling of Ou (Palimpsest Press…
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Neelum Saran Gour, "Requiem in Raga Janki" (Penguin Viking, 2018)
In the early years of the twentieth century, in what was then British India, culture thrived in the city of Allahabad. In this vibrant hub of musicians, poets…
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Sunny Dhillon, "Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Sunny Dhillon about his book, Hide & Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). In…
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Iida Turpeinen, "Beasts of the Sea" (Little, Brown, 2025)
Iida Turpeinen is a literary scholar writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. Her short stories exploring the…
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Princess Joy L. Perry, "This Here Is Love" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—living beside each other, struggling against their circumstances, trying to bend destiny. As the seventeenth century…
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Luis Rechani Agrait, "My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts" (Swan Isle Press, 2025)
My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts (Swan Isle Press, 2025) by Luis Rechani Agrait was translated into English by William Carlos Williams but not published in…
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Cush Rodríguez Moz “Future Remains” The Common Magazine (Fall, 2025)
Cush Rodríguez Moz speaks to Emily Everett about his essay “Future Remains: The Mysterious Allure of a Town in Ruins,” which appears in The Common’s fall…
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Lesley Chamberlain, "The Mozhaisk Road" (Austin Macauley, 2025)
In The Mozhaisk Road (Austin Macauley, 2025) the time is 1978 and Moscow is still the capital of a Communist country. The political police continues to…
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Mia Tsai, "The Memory Hunters" (Erewhon Books, 2025)
Mia Tsai’s novel The Memory Hunters centers Kiana Strade, Key, a reckless young archaeologist and religious figure, who is capable of diving deeper into blood…
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Katie Welch, "Ladder to Heaven" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadert speaks with Kamloops, BC author Katie Welch about her novel, Ladder to Heaven (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). In 2045 an…
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Linda Wilgus, "The Sea Child" (Ballantine, 2026)
Cornwall, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was best known for its smuggling. The combination of an insular and impoverished countryside, a rugged…
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Booksellers Best of 2025
Lisa Swayze has been the General Manager at Buffalo Street Books for 8 years and will transition to becoming the Executive Director of the bookstore’s new…
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Sean Minogue, "Prodigals" (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Sean Minogue about this play, Prodigals (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025). When a big-city dreamer from a…
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David Elias, "Into the D-Ark" (Radiant Press, 2025)
In this NBN episode, NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with acclaimed Manitoba author David Elias about his new novel, Into the D/Ark (Radiant Press, 2025). Rose…
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Brad Smith, "Billy Crawford's Double Play" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Brad Smith about his new novel, Billy Crawford's Double Play (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). Everything is legal –…
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Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)
The landscape of comedy has undergone a seismic shift in recent years with an increasing number of female comedians breaking through to mainstream audiences…
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Diane Botnick, "Becoming Sarah" (She Writes Press, 2025)
Sarah Vogel was born in Auschwitz and liberated at age three, but she has no memories of being there and nobody to tell her the story of her birth or her…
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Somia Sadiq, "Gajarah" (GFB, 2025)
With stunning lyricism, Somia Sadiq's Gajarah (GFB, 2025) tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds-Pakistan and Canada-whose life is upended…
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Stephanie Reents, "We Loved to Run" (Hogarth, 2025)
At Frost, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, the runners on the women’s cross country team have their sights set on the 1992 New England Division…
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Daria Lavelle, "Aftertaste" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
In Aftertaste (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was young, and his mother is too anguished to raise him, so he raises himself…
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Caitlin Galway, "A Song for Wildcats: Stories" (Dundurn Press, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Caitlin Galway about her short fiction collection, A Song for Wildcats (Dundurn Press, 2025). An…
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Michael Kardos, "Fun City Heist" (Severn House, 2025)
Mo Melnick has perfect pitch, which didn’t help him in his career as a drummer, but he used to be in a rock band and now his job is sitting on the Jersey Shore…
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Eileen Myles, "Pathetic Literature" (Grove Press, 2022)
“Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature (Grove Press, 2022), a breathtaking…
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Emily Hunt Kivel, "Dwelling" (FSG, 2025)
The world is ending. It has been ending for some time. When did the ending begin? Perhaps when Evie’s mother died, or when her father died soon after. Perhaps…
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Yvonne Blomer, "Death of Persephone: A Murder" (Caitlin Press, 2024)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Yvonne Blomer about her stunning narrative poetry, Death of Persephone: A Murder (Caitlin Press, 2024). In…
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Aviva Rubin, "White: A Novel" (RE: Books, 2024)
Sarah Cartell, who grew up in a White Supremacist family controlled by a violent grandfather who preaches hate and violence, learns from books and a kind…
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Sharon White, "If the Owl Calls" (WTAW Press, 2025)
As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of…
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Zoe Dubno, "Happiness and Love" (Scribner, 2025)
Following a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends—an artist and…
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Ann Cavlovic, "Count on Me" (Guernica Editions, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Ann Cavlovic about her new novel, Count on Me (Guernica Editions, 2025). Count on Me exposes how…
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Stephanie Wambugu, "Lonely Crowds" (Little, Brown and Co., 2025)
In Lonely Crowds (Little, Brown and Co., 2025) Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the…
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Maren Halvorsen, "The Bailiff’s Wife" (Cuidono Press, 2025)
Despite the long-held perception that medieval and early modern women were as quiet, pious, and obedient as society expected them to be, the truth is more…
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Paula Bomer, "The Stalker" (Soho Books, 2025)
Paula Bomer is the author of The Stalker (Soho Books, 2025), which received a starred Publisher’s Weekly, calling it “dark and twisted fun”. She is also the…
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Maya Arad, "Happy New Years" (New Vessel Press, 2025)
In Happy New Years (New Vessel Press, 2025), after finishing her teaching degree, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as…
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Robert de la Chevrotiere, "Tall Is Her Body" (Kensington, 2025)
In this NBN episode, Hollay Ghadery speaks with Robert de la Chevrotiere about his novel, Tall is Her Body (Kensington, 2025). Readers of Black Cake and Family…
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Concetta Principe, "Disorder" (Gordon Hill Press, 2024)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Concetta Principe about her poetry collection, DIsorder (Gordon Hill Press, 2024). Disorder, the newest…
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David Giuliano, "The Upending of Wendall Forbes" (Latitude 46, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews David Giuliano about his novel, The Upending of Wendall Forbes (Latitude 46, 2025). Wendall and Ruby Forbes…
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Harini Nagendra, "Into the Leopard's Den: A Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery" (Pegasus Crime, 2025)
Into the Leopard’s Den (Pegasus / Hachette India: 2025), the latest novel in the Bangalore Detective Club series by Harini Nagendra, opens with a home invasion…
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Erin Somers, "The Ten Year Affair: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both are happily married young parents with two kids, and…
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Lorne Daniel, "What Is Broken Binds Us" (U Calgary Press, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews poet Lorne Daniel about his poetry collection, What is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Press, 2025)…
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Maya Arad, "The Hebrew Teacher" (New Vessel Press, 2024)
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern…
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Janet Burroway, "Simone in Pieces" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
Simone Lerrante is a Belgian orphan whose memory is damaged by the trauma of her father being shot by Nazis and her subsequent escape to England. From 1940 to…
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Tamara Jong, "Worldly Girls" (Book Hug*Press, 2020)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Tamara Jong about her memoir, Worldly Girls (Book*hug Press, 2025). Tamara Jong’s powerful memoir…
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Brian Evenson, "Further Reports" (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2024)
Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently Good Night Sleep Tight (Coffeehouse Press 2024). His novel Last Days won the…
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Marcy Dermansky, "Hot Air" (Knopf, 2025)
Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie, and Twins. She has received fellowships…
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Theresa Muñoz, "Archivum" (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025)
Archivum (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025) by Dr. Theresa Muñoz is a book – wise, funny and inventive by turn – that explores what it means to look at…
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Sadiqa de Meijer, "In the Field" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Governor General Award-winning author Sadiqa de Meijer about her new essay collection, In the Field…
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Howard Lovy, "Found and Lost: The Jake and Cait Story" (Vine Leaves Press, 2025)
Howard Lovy is a journalist, book editor, and author with forty years of experience covering everything from Jewish issues and the Mideast conflict to…
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Aamir Hussain, "Under the Full and Crescent Moon" (Dundurn, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Aamir Hussain about his debut novel, Under the Full and Crescent Moon (Dundurn, 2025). In a battle of…
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Gretchen Felker-Martin, "Black Flame" (Tor Nightfire, 2025)
One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame (Tor Nightfire, 2025) from the USA Today bestselling author…
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Hari Krishna Kaul, "For Now, It Is Night: Stories" (NYRB, 2024)
Hari Krishna Kaul’s short stories, shaped by the social crisis and political instability in Kashmir, explore – with a sharp eye for detail, biting wit, and…
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Brandon Taylor, "Minor Black Figures" (Riverhead, 2025)
Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels Minor Black Figures (Riverhead, 2025), The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize…
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Caskey Russell, "The Door on the Sea" (Solaris, 2025)
Caskey Russell’s novel The Door on the Sea (Solaris, 2025) follows Elan, the youngest member of once revered Flicker Clan, on a journey to find a weapon that…
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Mary Birk, "Violent Seed" (Rookwood, 2025)
Lady Anne is in the Cotswolds with her 8-month-old son, there to restore a famous walled garden. The magnificent home has been hosting a television cooking…
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Shane Peacock, "A Place of Secrets" (Cormorant Books, 2025)
A TRAGIC DOUBLE HOMICIDE, OR A HIDDEN SERIAL KILLER? SERGEANT ALICE MORROW IS DETERMINED TO SOLVE A MYSTERY SPANNING SIXTY YEARS. When Evelyn Massey is found…
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Bruce Hunter, "In the Bear's House" (Frontenac House, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery interviews award-winning author Bruce Hunter about his CanLit masterpiece, In the Bear's House (Frontenac House Press…
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Philip Graubart, "Here There Is No Why" and Philip Graubart "Here There Is No Why"
In this double interview I talked to Michael Kinnamon, author of A Rooftop in Jerusalem and Philip Graubart author of Here There Is No Why. A Rooftop In…
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Kasia Jaronczyk, "Voices in the Air" (Palimpsest Press, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Kasia Jaronczyk about her novel, Voices in the Air (Palimpsest Press, 2025). What would drive women…
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Aisha Sasha John, "total: poems" (Random House, 2025)
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Aisha Sasha John about her poetry collection, total: poems (McClelland & Stewart, 2025). "John is…
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Jemimah Wei, "The Original Daughter" (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025)
Genevieve Yang, the protagonist of Jemimah Wei’s debut novel The Original Daughter (Doubleday/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025) works a dead-end job in Singapore…