Modern American Fiction
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Madeleine L'Engle followed up A Wrinkle in Time with the more complex book, A Wind in the Door. more...
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik's fifth novel Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons is a tour of upper-middleclass life as a housewife during 1968 to 1998. more...
Book Review of The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd's first novel The Secret Life of Bees is a novel full of memorable characters and fascinating facts. more...
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
Before Tracy Chevalier's popular novel "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" came her first novel "The Virgin Blue." more...
Review: The Other Side of the Sun
L'Engle writes about finding where you belong in this novel about a young British girl who moves to the Deep South to live with her fiancé's family. more...
Review of The Veritas Conflict
The Bible tells us who wins the spiritual war for the mankind but individual battles continue. Shaunti Feldhahn's novel is a compelling story that imagines that battle. more...
A collection of four discussion questions to be used by book clubs when discussing Martin's novel. more...
All feature articles in Modern American Fiction
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
In her first novel, author and artist Audrey Niffenegger writes a story about a love that has to, by necessity, transcend time. more...
By: Eva Gordon
The beautiful wife of a politician, is overcome with ennui and takes off in various directions to try and find her missing spirit. more...
The New Face of American Literature
By: Cresta McGowan
Do the new representations of American Literature have the same strong hold as our beloved "classics" on the literary forefront? more...
By: Laura Bernell
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is about love and survival in the aftermath of an apocalypse. Amid horrific dangers, one father and son maintain love and human decency. more...
By: Sara Carroll
The Bell Jar was to be Sylvia Plath's last written outing. Hailed a classic, its a shame Plath didn't live long enough to enjoy its success. more...
There is something voyeuristically fascinating about polygamy: the politics, the sex, the secrecy. And it is a practice creeping its way into books and TV plots. more...
Bohjalian's Midwives – Birth, Death, and Magic
By: Rebekah Richards
Chris Bohjalian's Midwives explores the trial of a midwife charged for murder for performing an emergency homemade Caesarean section on a woman she believed was dead. more...
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