by NRB | 23 Jun 2022 | Fiction |
A look back at the novel that won Louise Erdrich, most recently author of The Sentence, the Pulitzer Prize. Towards the end of Louise Erdrich’s excellent novel The Night Watchman are the words ‘Ambe bi-izhaan omaa askiing miinawa.’ Spoken by a...
by NRB | 21 Mar 2022 | Giveaways |
Celebrate with us! It’s hard to believe ten years have passed since we started the Newtown Review of Books back in 2012, but here we are, and huge thanks to all our wonderful contributors and supporters and to you, our readers. We wouldn’t exist without...
by NRB | 27 Jan 2022 | Fiction |
The new novel from Pulitzer-winner Louise Erdrich is both a story for our times and a loving tribute to bookshops. Two years on and the pandemic is starting to colonise literature. Louise Erdrich’s latest book The Sentence feels like it started as one thing and was...
by NRB | 23 Nov 2017 | SFF |
Louise Erdrich successfully joins a long line of novelists exploring current issues through a cracked, extreme reflection of our own world. Dystopia has a long history in literary fiction. A breakdown in social order or a reshaping of society are useful lenses through...
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