Briefly Noted Book Reviews
The New Yorker · 21 Sep 2026

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

The Maltese Version, by Katy Simpson Smith (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The timeworn saying about there being two sides to every story gains new dimension in this probing novel, which posits that “two sides means there are two stories.” Here, readers are presented with four sides, each belonging to a


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