Guest MPP Posts
Beth Alvarado on Karen Brennan's Monsters: On Listening to Voices
Charles Baxter on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Karamazov Brothers: Not Understanding
Lucy Jane Bledsoe on Louise Erdrich and Miriam Toews: How to take risks
James Cagney on Gary Soto's "A Red Palm"
Harriet S. Chessman on Seamus Heaney’s “Postscript”: Humility and the Present Tense
R. Cathey Daniels on Lynda Barry’s Cruddy: Set Pieces
Marcy Dermansky on Mona Simpson’s Anywhere But Here
Caroline Goodwin on Amber Flora Thomas, Red Channel in the Rupture
David Haynes on Right by My Side
Lillian Howan on Wakako Yamauchi
Yang Huang on George Eliot’s Middlemarch: Owning up
Judy Juanita on Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Annie Kim on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: The Possibility of a Walk
Caroline Kim on Mariko Nagai’s Georgic: Stories
Devi S. Laskar on Natalie Diaz's When My Brother Was an Aztec
Margot Livesey on Andrea Barrett's Archangel
[Name of author] on Carole Maso’s Ava: An Uncommon Refrain
Ron Nyren on Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor
Angela Pneuman on Samantha Harvey's Dear Thief
Anne Raeff on Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Joan Silber on Grace Paley's "Mother" and "A Conversation with My Father"
Marisa Silver on Leonard Michaels’s “Murderers”
Debra Spark on William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow
Vendela Vida on Christopher Bollen’s A Beautiful Crime
Maw Shein Win on Jennifer Hasegawa's La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living
Sarah’s MPP Posts
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, and Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City
Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow
Venita Blackburn, Dead in Long Beach, California, Alta’s California Book Club's July book
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, and Jenny Offill, Weather: Imagining the Future
Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days: Tenderness
Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other: Breaking Forms
Elena Ferrante, Days of Abandonment and The Lost Daughter: Hypnotic Intensity
Jessica Hagedorn, The Gangster of Love, and Alta’s California Book Club
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West: A Novel
Dara Horn, Eternal Life, and Kevin McIlvoy, Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun
Tove Jansson, Fair Play and The Summer Book
Raven Leilani, Luster, and Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are
Sabrina Orah Mark, Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, and Dara Horn, A Guide for the Perplexed: Foreshadowing Emergency
Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You, and Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread: Life after Disaster
Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox, and Angela Carter, “The Bloody Chamber”: Muse and Bride
Helen Oyeyemi, Peaces, and Ali Smith, Hotel World: Unleashed Observation
Mary M. Slechta, Mulberry Street Stories
Zadie Smith, Grand Union, and E.M. Forster, Howard's End: People Watching
Zadie Smith, On Beauty, and Jeanette Winterson, The Passion: Domesticity and Wildness
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Artful Wildness
Kikuko Tsumura, There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job (Polly Barton, trans.)