novel

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When the novel begins, Bartholomew “Mew” Port travels in a teleportation device called a spinner from London to a futuristic or maybe alternate-reality Dublin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“Wuthering Heights” looks just as the voracious reader imagines it as they tear through the novel: drafty houses, windy moors, color and texture that bound from the screen.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

I admit that Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel is a radioactive choice for a best-of list.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Julián Delgado Lopera appeared onstage, pulled his brand new novel, “Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You,” out of the purse with two heads and read a sticky-noted passage aloud to the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

He wrote a novel, and it was not really such a bad novel as the critics later called it, although it was a very poor novel.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway