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Magill’s Literary Annual 2023

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Complete Annotated List of Contents


Contributing Reviewers


Afterlives—Abdulrazak Gurnah


Ain’t Burned All the Bright—Jason Reynolds


All Down Darkness Wide—Seán Hewitt


All My Rage—Sabaa Tahir


All the Flowers Kneeling—Paul Tran


All This Could Be Different—Sarah Thankam Mathews


Also a Poet—Ada Calhoun


Babel—R. F. Kuang


Bad Mexicans—Kelly Lytle Hernández


Big Girl—Mecca Jamilah Sullivan


Black Cake—Charmaine Wilkerson


Black Cloud Rising—David Wright Faladé


Blank Pages and Other Stories—Bernard MacLaverty


Bliss Montage—Ling Ma


Body Work—Melissa Febos


The Book Eaters—Sunyi Dean


Book Lovers—Emily Henry


The Books of Jacob—Olga Tokarczuk


Booth—Karen Joy Fowler


The Bullet That Missed—Richard Osman


Buster Keaton—James Curtis


Call Me Cassandra—Marcial Gala


Calling for a Blanket Dance—Oscar Hokeah


Camera Man—Dana Stevens


The Candy House—Jennifer Egan


Carrie Soto Is Back—Taylor Jenkins Reid


Civil Rights Queen—Tomiko Brown-Nagin


The Colony—Audrey Magee


Companion Piece—Ali Smith


Constructing a Nervous System—Margo Jefferson


Corrections in Ink—Keri Blakinger


Customs—Solmaz Sharif


The Daughter of Doctor Moreau—Silvia Moreno-Garcia


Daughter of the Moon Goddess—Sue Lynn Tan


Deaf Utopia—Nyle DiMarco with Robert Siebert


Demon Copperhead—Barbara Kingsolver


Dinosaurs—Lydia Millet


The Door of No Return—Kwame Alexander


Ducks—Kate Beaton


Easy Beauty—Chloé Cooper Jones


Either/Or—Elif Batuman


Fellowship Point—Alice Elliott Dark


Free—Lea Ypi


Gathering Blossoms under Fire—Alice Walker


Half American—Matthew F. Delmont


Happy-Go-Lucky—David Sedaris


The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories—Jamil Jan Kochai


Heartbroke—Chelsea Bieker


Her Country—Marissa R.Moss


His Name Is George Floyd—Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa


Horse—Geraldine Brooks


How to Raise an Antiracist—Ibram X. Kendi


The Hurting Kind—Ada Limón


I Cried to Dream Again—Sara Kruzan and Cori Thomas


I Must Betray You—Ruta Sepetys


If I Survive You—Jonathan Escoffery


I’ll Show Myself Out—Jessi Klein


I’m Glad My Mom Died—Jennette McCurdy


An Immense World—Ed Yong


The Impossible City—Karen Cheung


Index, a History of the—Dennis Duncan


Inheritance—Elizabeth Acevedo


The Invisible Kingdom—Meghan O’Rourke


The Kaiju Preservation Society—John Scalzi


Kaikeyi—Vaishnavi Patel


Killers of a Certain Age—Deanna Raybourn


Last Call at the Hotel Imperial—Deborah Cohen


The Last Slave Ship —Ben Raines


The Last White Man—MohsinHamid


Left on Tenth—Delia Ephron


Legacy of Violence—Caroline Elkins


Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century—Kim Fu


Lessons—IanMcEwan


Lessons in Chemistry—Bonnie Garmus


The Letters of Thom Gunn—Thom Gunn


Liberation Day—George Saunders


Lost & Found—Kathryn Schulz


Lucy by the Sea—Elizabeth Strout


Volume 2



The Man Who Could Move Clouds—Ingrid Rojas Contreras


Mean Baby—Selma Blair


The Memory Librarian—Janelle Monáe, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Eve L. Ewing, Yohanca Delgado, and Sheree Renée Thomas


Memphis—Tara M. Stringfellow


Moon Witch, Spider King—Marlon James


Moth—Melody Razak


Mother Noise—Cindy House


The Movement Made Us—David J. Dennis Jr. with David J. Dennis Sr.


My Seven Black Fathers—Will Jawando


The Naked Don’t Fear the Water—Matthieu Aikins


A New Name—Jon Fosse


Night of the Living Rez—Morgan Talty


Nightcrawling—Leila Mottley


The Nineties—Chuck Klosterman


Nona the Ninth—Tamsyn Muir


Notes on an Execution—Danya Kukafka


Nothing Burns as Bright as You—Ashley Woodfolk


Nothing More to Tell—Karen M. McManus


Now Is Not the Time to Panic—Kevin Wilson


The Ogress and the Orphans—Kelly Barnhill


Olga Dies Dreaming—Xochitl Gonzalez


Otherlands—Thomas Halliday


Our Missing Hearts—Celeste Ng


Properties of Thirst—Marianne Wiggins


The Rabbit Hutch—Tess Gunty


Red Paint—Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe


Rise—Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, and Philip Wang


River of the Gods—Candice Millard


Rogues—Patrick Radden Keefe


The School for Good Mothers—Jessamine Chan


Sea of Tranquility—Emily St. John Mandel


Seeking Fortune Elsewhere—Sindya Bhanoo


Serious Face—Jon Mooallem


Seven Empty Houses—Samanta Schweblin


The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida—Shehan Karunatilaka


Shy—Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green


Siren Queen—Nghi Vo


Small World—Jonathan Evison


Solito—Javier Zamora


The Song of the Cell—Siddhartha Mukherjee


South to America—Imani Perry


The Stardust Thief—Chelsea Abdullah


Stay True—Hua Hsu


Stories from the Tenants Downstairs—Sidik Fofana


The Summer of Bitter and Sweet—Jen Ferguson


Swim Team—Johnnie Christmas


The Swimmers—Julie Otsuka


Take My Hand—Dolen Perkins-Valdez


Tell Me Everything—Erika Krouse


Thank You, Mr. Nixon—Gish Jen


This Time Tomorrow—Emma Straub


This Woven Kingdom—Tahereh Mafi


A Thousand Steps into Night—Traci Chee


Time Is a Mother—Ocean Vuong


A Tiny Upward Shove—Melissa Chadburn


Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow—Gabrielle Zevin


The Trayvon Generation—Elizabeth Alexander


The Treeline—Ben Rawlence


True Biz—Sara Nović


Trust—Hernan Diaz


The Twist of a Knife—Anthony Horowitz


Under the Skin—Linda Villarosa


The Verifiers—Jane Pek


Victory. Stand!—Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes


The Violin Conspiracy—Brendan Slocumb


The Vortex—Scott Carney and Jason Miklian


Walking the Bowl—Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama


The White Girl—Tony Birch


The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On—Franny Choi


Yonder—Jabari Asim


You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays—Zora Neale Hurston


Young Mungo—Douglas Stuart


Category Index


Title Index