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Don’t Like What’s Happening in Our Country? Run for Local Office
Beck Dorey-Stein//37 views
Nonfiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO ITWhy Cursing at the News Won...
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Fighting to Save Their Tribe From Termination
Luis Alberto Urrea//53 views/1 comments
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE NIGHT WATCHMANBy Louise Erdrich Early in this ba...
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Wrestling With Prejudice in Three Debut Novels
Tope Folarin//28 views
The Shortlist THIS TOWN SLEEPS By Dennis Staples 211 pp. Counterpoint. $26. At one point in Staples’s “This Town Sleeps,” the 20-something narrator, Marion Lafo...
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Don’t Mind Me While I Wear My Dog
Janice Y. K. Lee//35 views/3 comments
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. SEPARATION ANXIETYBy Laura Zigman What is the name o...
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Before You Spit in That Vial, Read This Book
Pam Belluck//33 views/2 comments
Nonfiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE LOST FAMILYHow DNA Testing Is Upending Who We...
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Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill
Mary Norris//38 views
Nonfiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. RUST A Memoir of Steel and GritBy Eliese Colette ...
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In ‘Barn 8,’ a Plot to Steal a Million Chickens
Harriet Alida Lye//31 views/1 comments
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. BARN 8 By Deb Olin Unferth At the heart of “Barn 8” ...
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Katie Roiphe Puts Her Romantic History Under a Microscope
Lauren Elkin//36 views
nonfiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE POWER NOTEBOOKSBy Katie Roiphe Throughout her...
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Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive?
Karen Armstrong//35 views
Nonfiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. DOROTHY DAYDissenting Voice of the American Centu...
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Frida Kahlo in ‘Gringolandia’
Carolyn Burke//37 views/1 comments
nonfiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. FRIDA IN AMERICAThe Creative Awakening of a Great...
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An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces
Mary Gordon//35 views/1 comments
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. ACTRESSBy Anne Enright The most fraught word in any ...
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In ‘Fiebre Tropical,’ a Colombian Teenager Moves to Miami and Comes of Age
Dwight Garner//38 views
Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The travel writer Paul Theroux once calle...
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Coming of Age, Whether She’s Ready or Not
Elisabeth Egan//32 views/3 comments
GROUP TEXT In Lily King’s new novel, a young woman searches for meaning. Welcome to Group Text, a monthly column about novels, memoirs and story collections tha...
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James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ is a Supercharged Urban Farce Lit Up by Thunderbolts of Rage
Junot Díaz//36 views
fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. DEACON KING KONG By James McBride It’s September 196...
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The Ties That Bind Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump
Frederick Hernandez//30 views
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen In the best-selling “Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction,” David En...