Melissa Broder

The Best Books of 2023
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The Best Books of 2023

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 / 23 December 2023

It won’t surprise PopMatters readers that many of our best books of 2023 are excavations of our increasingly clamorous culture. It wasn’t a year for escapism.

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The Surreal, Dazzling Desert World of Melissa Broder’s ‘Death Valley’
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The Surreal, Dazzling Desert World of Melissa Broder’s ‘Death Valley’

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 / 3 October 2023

Melissa Broder’s quality of being “terminally online” lends Death Valley an air of immediacy that grounds its surreal, dazzling moments in poignant emotional realism.