Sam Sacks

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20 October 2026 18:43

And finally this weekend's Fiction Chronicle leads with Chad Harbach's follow-up to 'The Art of Fielding,' a kind of distaff counterpoint. It remains excellent in its imagining of campus life, but is much weaker when it strays from the groves of Westish College. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Sam Sacks

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20 October 2026 18:42

Bonnie Jo Campbell loosely recasts 'A Christmas Carol' in hardscrabble Michigan--an intense, emotional novel set across a single night that I think really works. And Andrés Barba follows his brilliant 'A Luminous Republic' with an eerie ghost story about childhood fear. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Sam Sacks

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20 October 2026 18:42

I've been neglecting to mention my weekly fiction column on this site for a while now. So for any interested parties, here's a brief thread with gift links to reviews of some autumn novels.

National Book Critics Circle

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20 October 2026 01:47

Members and friends, please join us for a special conversation about criticism for books in translation with judges of the Barrios Prize on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern, led by Barrios Prize Chair Mandana Chaffa! You can register here: buff.ly/sFfyCis

Dorothy, a publishing project

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14 October 2026 15:38

An excerpt from Denise Rose Hansen's debut novel BLUE SUNSET just went up at @literaryhub.bsky.social!