Five Short Story Collections that Tell a Single Tale
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In the books on this list you’ll find powerful stories that don’t chew you up and spit you out: instead each offers you one piece of a complex tale.
R. William Attwood
I'm a writer and sometime theatre director. At the moment I live in Dublin.
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Stand Up and Be Counted: Five Novels About Taking Political Action
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Whatever your own politics, these five novels will move you to think more deeply about what it means to stand up for something.
A Healthy Work-Life Balance: Five Novels Whose Characters Actually Have Jobs (and Not in Academia)
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These five novels tackle the tedium of unfulfilling work, the anxiety of choosing between careers, the irritation and camaraderie of colleague relationships, the exhilaration of success, the despair of failure and the damage work can do to family life.
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Five Great Autobiographical Novels
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Here are five books that cross the border between fiction and memoir, life and art.
American Author Denis Johnson Died Last Week
Denis Johnson, the prize-winning fiction writer, poet and playwright died May 24, 2017. He told the truth about suffering and violence as few writers dare to and his vision never faltered. Hopefully his death will at least introduce a wider readership to his brilliant work
Curzio Malaparte’s The Skin: A Seriously Underappreciated Novel About the Second World War
Set in Italy during World War II, this novel is not only a profoundly disturbing and visionary work of art, it’s a necessary corrective to the prevailing Anglo-American narrative of the War, which tends to focus on the heroic Allies and their Nazi opponents.
You Live In A Privately-Owned World: An Anti-Establishment Reading List
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Here are five books that get close to the heart of modern power and point to the ways we might be able to resist it.
5 Unreal Novels by Masters of Literary Realism
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Even novelists famous for their contribution to literary realism often have a strange story or two hidden away in their back catalogue, and they’re well worth digging out. Here are five of the best.
Canopus In Argos: Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction Novels
An exploration into Doris Lessing's science-fiction series Canopus in Argos, a five-volume cycle of novels about an alien civilisation.
Five Vampire Novels With No Kissing
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So here are five books featuring vampires you wouldn’t want to go to the movies with.
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Egyptian-American food enthusiast born in Chicago, raised in Beirut, and living in Dublin. Multitasker for Bookwitty. Intimately familiar with the term "identity crisis".
Irish writer, editor, and capoeirista. Passionate about folklore, videogames, and communication. Editorial content writer at Bookwitty.
