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Like writers of The Michigan Daily Book Review past, our fearless reviewers are once again tackling the Booker Prize Shortlist. Every year, six English-language books published in the UK and Ireland ...

W hen Kevin Moffett woke up one morning in September, he didn’t expect to see his debut novel, “Only Son,” on the National ...

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Writing about a son’s vigil at his dying father’s bedside, Georgi Gospodinov examines what parents and their children reap and sow.

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It is not me… but a dead man speaking through my lips.” So begins A Shadow of Myself, Peter Flamm’s furious tale of a German veteran returning home after the First World War. The delirious narrator ...

Here's what we thought of the prestigious literary award's 2025 shortlist, the first with Sarah Jessica Parker as judge.