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How Latinos variously enact the fiesta for 15-year-old girls both fascinates and repels Julia Alvarez

by Belinda Acosta August 3, 2007September 30, 2025

Though the structure of Elizabeth Crook’s The Night Journal could be labeled with lit-crit buzzwords like ‘mise en abyme’ and metafiction, the best descriptor available for it is the slightly awkward ‘story-within-a-story’

by Jess Sauer February 3, 2006September 30, 2025

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Realizing that you have to break an egg to make a novelette (or something like that), Jasper Fforde cracks the biggest egg of all and cooks up a delectable new mystery