Christina Schwarz
Recent articles by Christina Schwarz
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Breakable You, by Brian Morton.
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Stoner, by John Williams.
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The Secret River, by Kate Grenville.
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Luck, by Joan Barfoot.
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High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006, by Joyce Carol Oates.
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A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit.
New Fiction
Becoming Strangers, by Louise Dean.
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Leaving Home, by Anita Brookner.
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The Truth of the Matter, by Robb Forman Dew.
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In the Fold, by Rachel Cusk.
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Willful Creatures: Stories, by Aimee Bender.
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Perfect Strangers and Other Stories, by Roxana Robinson.
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Fascination, by William Boyd.
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Ideas of Heaven, by Joan Silber.
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The Good Wife, by Stewart O'Nan.
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Follies and New Stories, by Ann Beattie.
New Fiction
March, by Geraldine Brooks.
Villages, by John Updike
Appraising the substance of style.
A Magnificent Misfit
Lorna Sage rejected empty romanticizing in favor of complex truth.
Going All Out for Chinese
Some of the best Chinese food in the world is being served in Los Angeles's new Sino-suburbs.
Monte Carlo, Mississippi
Tunica County, in the Mississippi Delta, has long been among the poorest places in America. But casino gambling is changing Tunica's prospects. The rich Delta soil is sprouting golf courses, and if all goes according to plan, white retirees will soon be moving in. Meanwhile, blacks, Tunica's majority, are not sharing in the boom and are under financial pressure to leave the land that their labor transformed from a vast swamp.