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'Mona,' 'Leda and the Swan,' and the Changing Rape Narrative


The Atlantic
Why literary novels about wrenching events are taking more and more cues from crime writing
Vanessa Saba / Mondadori Portfolio / Getty
At the bookstore where I used to work, we shelved fiction in four separate categories. Crime novels shared a wall with speculative fiction; romance had a set of freestanding shelves. The rest of the fiction room was devoted to literary fiction, which, unlike the others, we never identified by genre name. The publishing industry tends to treat
literary as a descriptor, a nod to a work’s artistic quality or aspirations. But literary fiction is a genre like any other, with distinct conventions, strengths, and flaws. It typically centers the personal, preferring inner turmoil to external drama and usually de-emphasizing plot. At its best, its focus on interior life lets readers live in other people’s heads. It also means that such works are well equipped to handle the long emotional fallout of painful or complicated ev ....

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The 10 Best Books of 2020


The 10 Best Books of 2020
The editors of the Journal’s books pages pick the year’s most distinguished fiction and nonfiction.
Dec. 9, 2020 6:26 pm ET
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
By David S. Reynolds |
Penguin Press
Antebellum America was a rough-and-tumble proposition, with the dangerous and uncouth life of the frontier reflected in a fractious political scene in which violent language often crossed over into fistfights and worse. In this revelatory work of cultural biography, Abraham Lincoln emerges as a leader who embodied the wildness and exuberance of the era. ....

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