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We present he best books of 2024 so far. Allow it to act as a reminder of a beloved author, an introduction to something new, a detour into the unexpected.

An illuminating comparison of Ann Petrys The Street and Gwendolyn Brookss Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohatas The Floating World and Chang-rae Lees Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and...