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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The Millions Top Ten: February 2020

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To celebrate the ascension of Ducks, Newburyport to the second spot on this month's Top Ten, this write-up will consist of a single sentence...
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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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Must-Read Poetry: March 2020

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Our own Nick Ripatrazone takes a look at seven essential books of poetry, including work from Traci Brimhall, Carl Phillips, and Craig Santos Perez.
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Novel Moves: Wrestling in Recent Fiction

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Though my pro wrestling fandom has waned, I was excited to see several recent works of fiction that leverage the narrative power of the sport: the colorful archetypes and illusions of professional wrestling or the elemental combat of “real” wrestling.
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The Millions Top Ten: January 2020

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Colson Whitehead's latest novel, The Nickel Boys, capped off six straight appearances on our Top Ten by ascending to our Hall of Fame.
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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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Must-Read Poetry: February 2020

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These poems are hymns to a lost daughter. An affirmation. “How briefly the body is a story / where everything matters, // even its name.”
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Writers to Watch: Spring 2020

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According to Majumdar’s editor, Jordan Pavlin, A Burning “has the force of an epic tragedy and the economy and restraint of a poem.”
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The Millions Top Ten: December 2019

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Millions staffer Adam O'Fallon Price's novel The Hotel Neversink rose two spots in our Top Ten, and now ranks higher than Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.
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Must-Read Poetry: January 2020

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Smith’s lines will hypnotize you, but also wake you, as in: “i’m waiting for a few folks // i love dearly to die so i can be myself. / please don’t make me say who.”
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Ten Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About C.S. Lewis

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Soon after they became friends in the 1920s, J.R.R. Tolkien began showing Lewis snatches of a massive myth he was creating about Middle Earth.
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Ten Must-Read Crime Books Set in the American West

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This list of must-read crime titles forms part of a lesser-known West, an awesomely weird landscape in which the line between Good and Evil shimmers like a mirage.
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A Year in Reading: Susan Straight

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I live in a place where all our stories are told in the park, in the truck, in the yard, on the porch, at the baseball diamond, or in the bar.
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A Year in Reading: Kevin Barry

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To protect that vision, he had to be a monster sometimes, too, and the book doesn’t flinch from the often grim and telling details.
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A Year in Reading: Dustin Kurtz

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Chalk it up in the How Books Are Bad column, I guess: They shore you up as a reading subject instead of letting you blur out. What a misdeed.
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A Year in Reading: Roberto Lovato

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My reading—and life—were swallowed by subterranean forces in 2019—and I’m all the better equipped to face our civilizational crisis because of it.
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