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In Juan Gómez Bárcena's 2023 novel Not Even the Dead , a former conquistador accepts a mysterious quest from the colonial government of Mexico.

Paris Hilton has some regrets: If she had to do it all again, she told Today.com in 2021, she wouldn't wear all that Von Dutch. Probably not Ed Hardy, either.

AT FIRST, IT may appear that nearly nothing happens in Antiquity (2020; English translation, 2024), the debut novel from Swedish writer Hanna Johansson. “I was waiting for something calamitous, something that would change everything,” writes the narrator, in an instance of the thoroughgoing disavowal of dramatic agency that gives the book its anxious charge. Translated by Kira Josefsson, Antiquity

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