Evgenia Citkowitz’s The Shades is technically a first novel, but banish all assumptions that the designation might evoke. This is not single-strand auto-fiction, a thin mask for the author’s ...

I read The Shades, the debut novel of Evgenia Citkowitz, in one sitting while I was supposed to be working on a very different project—and, days later, it’s still distracting me. The Shades packs the ...

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For the Hall family, the country house called Hamdean was supposed to be a retreat, a suite of well-appointed rooms where they could escape their busy London lives. Buying the front part of the manor ...

Evgenia Citkowitz met Mona Simpson around 35 years ago – she was the latter’s summer intern at The Paris Review. On Tuesday, Simpson, a novelist and English professor at UCLA, will moderate a book ...