The Winner
A novel
The latest novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’06, The Winner is a dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite.
Winner’s circle
A new acclaimed novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’07, explores class mobility, moral choices and love in the time of COVID.
God Bless the Child
When we first meet Mary Kline in God Bless the Child, Book One of The Women of Paradise County series, she is sewing, her main obsession besides eating. It is hard to blame Mary for who she has become. She’s been perpetually hungry since childhood, and as she becomes a woman, she craves something far more delicious—a child of her own.
The Second Coming
A novel
Soaring, aching, full of revelation, “The Second Coming” by Garth Risk Hallberg (BA ’01) is an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change?
Mother Doll
A Novel
Ferociously funny and deeply moving, “Mother Doll,” the second novel from Katya Apekina,
MFA ’11, forces us to look at how painful secrets stamp themselves from one generation to the next. It’s a family epic and a meditation on motherhood, immigration, identity, and war.
The Emperor
(The French List)
A tragicomic novel that explores deep-seated tensions and social violence in Haiti.
Parvulescu wins $1.2M European Union grant
Anca Parvulescu, the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor in Comparative Literature and a professor of English, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will serve as principal investigator for a $1.2 million grant exploring the history of comparatism and the origins of the comparative method.
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other
From the “strikingly smart and daringly feminist” (Jenny Offill) author of Margaret the First and SPRAWL comes a prose collection like no other, where different styles of writing and different spaces of experience create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life. “Luminous” (The Guardian) and “brilliantly odd” (The Irish Independent), Danielle Dutton’s writing is as […]
The Cloud Lasso
Quite, Rural, Magical Grief. — Kirkus Reviews Big gloomy clouds have hung over Delilah’s head and heart since her beloved grandfather died. But remembering an old trick he taught her on the farm, she lassos all the clouds out of the sky to navigate her feelings of sadness and isolation. The Cloud Lasso is a […]
One Snowy Morning
Two woodland friends spot a mysterious pile of snow decked out with funny objects which they put to use in unintended and highly original ways, proving that things are what you make of them.
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