Prizes

Best Translated Book Awards Names 2020 Longlists

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The 35 books on this year's fiction and poetry longlists represent 20 different countries and feature authors writing in 18 languages.
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Book Previews

March Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)

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March brings us new books from Louise Erdrich, Lily King, and Rebecca Solnit—and THE FINAL VOLUME in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy.
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Excerpts

‘Too Much’: Featured Nonfiction from Rachel Vorona Cote

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In Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, Cote examines how the "unspoken rules" that govern the expression of women’s emotional and physical desires date back to the 19th century.
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Excerpts

‘Children of the Land’: Featured Fiction from Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

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For the latest edition of featured fiction, we present an excerpt from Children of the Land by poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, out now from Harper.
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Book Previews

February Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)

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We wouldn’t dream of abandoning our vast semi–annual Most Anticipated Book Previews, but we thought a monthly reminder would be helpful.
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Book Previews

Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview

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Excerpts

‘Africaville’: Featured Fiction from Jeffrey Colvin

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Today, we present an excerpt from a debut novel that earned praise from Victor LaValle, who called it a "gripping and moving book."
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Book Previews

December Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)

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Here are the new releases we're looking out for in December 2019. Let us know what you’re looking forward to in the comments!
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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: 2019

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Welcome to the 15th annual Year in Reading series at The Millions. This December's series is, at 90-something contributors, the most crowded yet.
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Announcements

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Excerpts

‘In the Country of Women’: Featured Nonfiction from Susan Straight

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You so fine I might just have to kill you. Some other fool is gonna take you away, and I can’t have that. Family legend: This is what Daisy’s first husband said to her, holding the gun he kept on the small table beside their bed.
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Book Previews

November Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)

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There are a whole lot of books in our Second-Half 2019 Most Anticipated list—here's a refresher for the month of November so you can keep up.
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Excerpts

‘Ordinary Girls’: Featured Nonfiction by Jaquira Díaz

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We shared stories about our fathers, both mujeriegos, all the women they’d betrayed...We played our favorite songs for each other.
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Book Previews

October Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)

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Curiosities

Michael Bourne’s ‘The Old Home Place’ Published by Straylight

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The novella The Old Home Place by longtime Millions staffer Michael Bourne offers an intimate look at an ambitious young couple, in love and in trouble, as they grapple with America’s complex racial history.
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Book Previews

September Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)

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September is for back-to-school, the big Vogue issue, and blockbuster books. This month brings new Margaret Atwood, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Ann Patchett.
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Excerpts

‘Cantoras’: Featured Fiction from Carolina De Robertis

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The first time—which would become legend among them—they entered in darkness. Night enfolded the sand dunes. Stars clamored around a meager slice of moon.
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Excerpts

‘The Trojan War Museum’: Featured Fiction from Ayse Papatya Bucak

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An excerpt from O. Henry and Pushcart Prize winner Ayse Papatya Bucak’s debut collection.
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