Works by Susan Balée
Autumn 2025

The Killer Bs (Books and Balls)

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Summer 2025

On Safari

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Autumn 2022

Sin-Eaters and Other Characters

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Autumn 2023

The Summer’s Best Fiction, Hands Down

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Autumn 2022

Two Shy of a Baker’s Dozen

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Summer 2021

Portals Between Worlds: Recent Sci-Fi and Fantasy and Vintage Octavia Butler

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Summer 2020

(Pandemic) Prison Reading: Eight Novels to Pass the Time

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Winter 2020

Letter from Sri Lanka

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Summer 2019

When the World Gets Weird, We Cry for Sci-Fi (and Fantasy)

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Autumn 2018

Ducks, Virgins, Snakes and Witches

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Spring 2018

The Case of Meriwether Lewis: Suicide or Slander?

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Autumn 2017

Some Final Words

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Summer 2016

Watery Narratives

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Winter 2011

Five Writers Reckoning

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Autumn 2010

Death and Immortality

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Winter 2016

Getting a Life: Recent American Memoirs

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Autumn 2015

Letter from Delhi

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Spring 2015

Gladys Schmitt: Hardly “Middlebrow”

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Winter 2015

On the Tennessee (Williams) Trail

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Autumn 2014

Letter from Italy

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Spring 2014

Dogs and Letters

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Summer 2013

Caves, Masks, and Code Switching: The Inventive Narratives of Junot Díaz

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Autumn 2011

A Box of Books

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Winter 2012

Charles Dickens: The Show (But-Don’t-Tell) Man

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Autumn 2012

The Matrix of Time

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Winter 2010

Women Writers of a Certain Age

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Winter 2009

Consequences and Possibilities

Spring 2008

Two Mothers, Two Memoirs

Winter 2008

Irascible Man

Autumn 2007

Jim Crace’s Violent Verities

Autumn 2006

Spin-Soothing Tales

Winter 2006

Textual Pleasures and Pet Peeves

Winter 2005

Swimming Lessons

Summer 2003

Captives of Their Imagination: Salem in 1692

Summer 2002

America the Innocent

Spring 2001

Misandry in the Classroom

Autumn 2000

Maximalist Fiction

Autumn 1999

Sexy Wits

Spring 1999

Victorian Voyages and Other Mind Trips

Winter 1999

Ideology and Its Discontents

Spring 1998

From the Outside In: A History of American Autobiography

Autumn 1997

Mammarian Musings

Summer 1997

Days of Whine and Posers

Spring 1997

Southern Classics

Winter 1996

Two-Part Harmony

Autumn 1994

Flannery O’Connor Resurrected

Summer 1994

Unconventional Victorian

Spring 1993

Obscure Romantics and Uneasy Victorians

Summer 1992

After the Defense