The Best Books of Fall 2024
Our top ten picks of the season, featuring fiction, nonfiction, and more
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Self-Diagnosis Is Making Memoir Too Predictable
The joy of reading memoir is to watch another mind puzzle through its inner mechanics. If the outcome is already decided, why bother?
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The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design
The publishing industry’s troubling reliance on visual stereotypes
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Alice Munro Was Bigger than Canada
Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes
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Rachel Cusk’s Parade Turns the Novel Upside Down
In the book, characters exist, sort of, but they’re mostly artists, and they’re almost all named G
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The Fun, Frank, and Completely Miserable Poetry of Barfly
Michael Lista’s new collection of poems should come with a Health Canada warning
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Alice Munro, Nobel-Winning Author, Dies at Ninety-Two
A Canadian master of the contemporary short story passes away
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Yes, It’s Okay to Throw Away a Book
We love acquiring, hoarding, and displaying books even more than we love reading them
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How Should a Diary Be? Sheila Heti Scrambles Her Life in Alphabetical Diaries
Heti takes her autofiction to the next level by publishing her journals—with editing help from Excel
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The Shunned Literary Genius of Samuel Selvon
When a giant of Caribbean literature moved to Calgary, Canadian critics ignored him. He probably didn’t care
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