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Adam Dalva

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I'm the President of the National Book Critics Circle and a contributing editor for the Yale Review. I teach creative writing at Rutgers University. My writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Guardian. My graphic novel, OLIVIA TWIST, was published by Dark Horse in 2019. ...more

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Average rating: 3.26 · 202 ratings · 38 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Olivia Twist: Honor Among Thieves by Darin Strauss, Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Emma Viecili (Illustrator) 3.10 avg rating — 114 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olivia Twist #1 by Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Darin Strauss, Emma Vieceli (Goodreads Author) (Artist) 3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta Em Língua Portuguesa 10: O Outro by Pedro Mexia (Dir.), Gustavo Pacheco (Dir.), Janet Malcolm 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olivia Twist #3 by Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Darin Strauss, Tula Lotay (Cover Art) 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olivia Twist #2 by Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Darin Strauss, Vanesa R. Del Rey (Cover Art) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olivia Twist #4 by Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Darin Strauss, Sana Takeda (Cover Art) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Olivia Twist (4 books)
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Emma Vieceli (Goodreads Author) (Artist),

Lee Loughridge (Colorist)

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Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Loved this so much - searing, brilliant, and full of life - the structure keeps revealing more with every read
Nov 01, 2025 06:53PM · 34 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Interesting case study on the power of accumulation in prose - every 20 pages or so I read it faster, until, by the end, I was flying
Sep 18, 2025 08:55PM · 27 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña París	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Fabulously cerebral, propulsive novel of ideas, research, and dance
Aug 16, 2025 06:04AM · 19 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book really liked it Emotions by Jean-Philippe Toussaint	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I find Toussaint weirdly irresistible, no matter how digressive.
Aug 07, 2025 06:42PM · 14 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book liked it God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Peter Cowie	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Feels a bit rushed, without nearly enough analysis, and it begins, strangely, to repeat itself nearly sentence by sentence in the last 50 pages. Given the promise of Cowie's level of access, a disappointment. ...more
Jun 06, 2025 07:04AM · 9 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Terrific, characteristically strange memoir that moves in a dreamy, free-associative fashion all over Bergman's life. Is some of it exaggerated, or filled with denial? Probably - but reading it on Faro, where I'm doing the Bergman Island residency th ...more
Jun 06, 2025 07:03AM · 19 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Terrific, characteristically strange memoir that moves in a dreamy, free-associative fashion all over Bergman's life. Is some of it exaggerated, or filled with denial? Probably - but reading it on Faro, where I'm doing the Bergman Island residency th ...more
Jun 06, 2025 07:02AM · 19 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979 by Roland Barthes	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Spectacular, harrowing, often blank treatment of grief
May 23, 2025 03:16PM · 14 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS by Gay Talese	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'm interviewing G.T. at the NY Society Library in NYC this week, and revisiting some of his work - the last 50 pages of this, when he appears as a character, in the third person, is such a transgressive, fascinating shock - the book works all the wa ...more
Apr 28, 2025 06:31PM · 11 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing The Four Humors: A Novel by Mina Seckin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Boldly structured debut novel with extremely sharp writing
Apr 14, 2025 07:27AM · 10 likes · like · see review

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