8 best-selling poetry books like The Paris Review, Issue 248, Summer 2024 (Paris Review, #248) by Emily Stokes

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The Paris Review, Issue 248, Summer 2024 (Paris Review, #248)

By: Emily Stokes

3.31

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Mary Robison on the Art of Fiction: “The first thing they’d say was ‘This is a nice story—where’s y…

If you liked the poetry plot in The Paris Review, Issue 248, Summer 2024 (Paris Review, #248) by Emily Stokes , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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2. Pond

By: Claire-Louise Bennett

4.33

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more

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  • poetry
  • short stories
  • fiction
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"

-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond

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3. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

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4. The Left-Handed Woman (English and German Edition)

By: Peter Handke

3.21

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Peter Handke tells the story of a woman determined to break with her husband and her past and to fo… read more

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  • fiction

5. The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

By: Elif Batuman

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED--ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!--TO THE RUS… read more

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6. Death of a Naturalist

By: Seamus Heaney

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

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7. Short Letter, Long Farewell

By: Peter Handke , Ralph Manheim , Greil Marcus

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Short Letter, Long Farewellis one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's n… read more

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8. Mamut

By: Eva Baltasar

3.58

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more

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  • fiction
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9. An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

By: Clarice Lispector

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH … read more

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  • fiction
"Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!"

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Oh God! Having just one life was so little."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"Meu mistério é simples: eu não sei como estar viva."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

"E digo: eu está apaixonada pelo teu eu. Então nós é."

-Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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10. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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11. The Tradition

By: Jericho Brown

4.24

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
"The opposite of rape is understanding."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."

-Jericho Brown, The Tradition

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12. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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13. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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14. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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  • poetry
  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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  • fiction
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16. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

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  • fiction
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17. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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  • fiction
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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18. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2) by Adrian Matejka

19. Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

ADRIAN MATEJKA CATHERINE BARNETT ABDULKAREEM ABDULKAREEM ANDREA COHEN JODIE HOLLANDER STELLA W… read more

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  • poetry
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20. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

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  • fiction
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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21. A Postmortem Dream

By: Ladislav Klíma

3.84

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

One of Ladislav Klíma's most famous ghost stories, A Postmortem Dream is an unfinished novella abou… read more

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  • fiction
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22. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

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  • fiction
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25. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Granta 167: Extraction by Thomas Meaney

26. Granta 167: Extraction

By: Thomas Meaney

3.73

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

The UK's most prestigious literary quarterly brings you prize-winning new fiction, reportage, memoi… read more

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Cover of The Paris Review, Issue 248, Summer 2024 (Paris Review, #248) by Emily Stokes

27. The Paris Review, Issue 248, Summer 2024 (Paris Review, #248)

By: Emily Stokes

3.31

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Mary Robison on the Art of Fiction: “The first thing they’d say was ‘This is a nice story—where’s y… read more

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  • poetry
  • short stories
  • essays
  • fiction
Cover of The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

28. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors… read more

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  • fiction
"mitologię, jako zbiór pouczających opowieści, które pomagają żyć"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Ojciec często powtarzał mu (...) że kobiety są z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"To proste - myślał Mieczyś Wojnicz, łykając łzy, które mieszały się z krwią zwierzęcia w jego wątłym ciele - być mężczyzną to nauczyć się ignorować to, co sprawia kłopot. Oto cała tajemnica."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

"Wojnicz już zauważył, że każda dyskusja, czy szło o demokrację, czy o piąty wymiar, czy o rolę religii socjalizm, Europę, wreszcie sztukę nowoczesną, wszystko w końcu sprowadzało się do kobiet"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

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29. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2024 (Volume 224, Number 1) by Adrian Matejka

30. Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2024 (Volume 224, Number 1)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.73

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

ROSALIE MOFFETT SID GHOSH ISABELLA DESENDI MELANIE TAFEJIAN COREY VAN LANDINGHAM ARIEL FRANCIS… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Granta 168: Significant Other by Thomas Meaney

31. Granta 168: Significant Other

By: Thomas Meaney

3.87

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

With a focus on energetic and voice-driven fiction, our summer issue will be centred on crushes, c… read more

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24 Top fiction books like The Paris Review, Issue 248, Summer 2024 (Paris Review, #248) by Emily Stokes

Transform Your Habits

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Pond

Claire-Louise Bennett

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Left-Handed Woman (English and German Edition)

Peter Handke

3.21

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17 best-selling poetry books like Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2) by Adrian Matejka

Transform Your Habits

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Andrea Gibson

3.65

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