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1 week ago | 
pressherald.com | Jacob Brogan
A note of unease runs through Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel “Your Steps on the Stairs” from its opening line. “I’ve moved to this city to wait for the end of the world,” Muñoz Molina’s narrator tells us. It’s not his apocalypticism that troubles — who among us isn’t thinking eschatologically these days?
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan
A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive? (washingtonpost.com) A man tries to build a world for his wife. Will she ever arrive? By Jacob Brogan 2025042511000000 A note of unease runs through Antonio Muñoz Molina's novel "Your Steps on the Stairs" from its opening line. "I've moved to this city to wait for the end of the world," Muñoz Molina's narrator tells us.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan
This sci-fi novel boldly imagines how we might escape authoritarianism (washingtonpost.com) This sci-fi novel boldly imagines how we might escape authoritarianism By Jacob Brogan 2025040713000000 Philosophical novels almost inevitably stumble into a welcome paradox: Philosophy, at least since Aristotle, has been primarily dictatorial, the product of a single speaker laying out a set of claims at their own pace.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Jacob Brogan
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msn.com | Jacob Brogan
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan
Every idol delineates an absence. We make statues to the gods because they are not here — and to memorialize the moments when we were sure they were. In this sense, “Lion,” the first novel by the actress Sonya Walger, is less an undisguised work of autobiographical fiction than a sort of shrine.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
infobae.com | Jacob Brogan
Cuando te digo que la mejor novela nueva que he leído este año está escrita en una sola oración que se extiende por más de 400 páginas, interrumpida solo ocasionalmente por un punto y coma, casi con certeza pensarás que estoy adoptando trucos literarios por el mero hecho de hacerlo. Sin embargo, ese libro, -Herscht 07769, del genio húngaro László Krasznahorkai- no es ni un experimento teatral ni una pretensión vana.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | Jacob Brogan
“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station. The prize comes with a cash award of 50,000 pounds (just under $64,000). After being handed the trophy by last year’s winner, Paul Lynch, Harvey said: “I was not expecting that. We were told that we weren’t allowed to swear in our speech.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan
When I tell you that the best new novel I have read this year is written in a single sentence that sprawls over 400 pages, interrupted only by the occasional semicolon, you will almost certainly think that I am embracing literary gimmickry for its own sake. And yet that book — “Herscht 07769,” by the Hungarian genius László Krasznahorkai — is neither an experimental stunt nor a pretentious folly.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Jacob Brogan
“Orbital,” the fifth novel by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize for Fiction on Tuesday. The novel follows astronauts over the course of 24 hours on a space station. The prize comes with a cash award of 50,000 pounds (just under $64,000). After being handed the trophy by last year’s winner, Paul Lynch, Harvey said: “I was not expecting that. We were told that we weren’t allowed to swear in our speech. So there goes my speech.”
