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Flashback to the ’80s
Marcy Dermansky//37 views/3 comments
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. WE RIDE UPON STICKSBy Quan Barry In her second novel...
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Your Quarantine Reader
Joumana Khatib, Concepción de León, Tammy Tarng, Alexandra Alter//35 views/1 comments
Further Reading Fearing the worst? Writers have been doing that for centuries. Here are the best pandemic novels from Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King. You’re pr...
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Adam Hochschild Says Books Can Change the World. He Has Proof.
Eric Irwin//42 views
By the Book The historian, whose new book is the Rose Pastor Stokes biography “Rebel Cinderella,” treasures his first-edition copy of “The Jungle,” by Upton Sin...
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An Author and an Editor Teamed Up to Write Books Together
Elisabeth Egan//30 views
Inside the List DYNAMIC DUO Sarah Pekkanen, an author, and Greer Hendricks, an editor, worked together on seven books before they decided to write one as a team...
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Barbara Neely, Activist Turned Mystery Writer, Dies at 78
Sam Roberts//32 views/1 comments
Her creation Blanche White was probably the first fictional black maid to solve a murder while working for a wealthy white family. Barbara Neely, an unheralded ...
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Writing a Family Memoir When Your Grandfather Was Stalin’s Bodyguard
Jennifer Szalai//24 views
Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. When the poet Osip Mandelstam was arreste...
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Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona
David Ives//37 views/1 comments
Nonfiction SHAKESPEARE IN A DIVIDED AMERICA What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future By James Shapiro America is massive. Shakespeare is massive. When t...
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Jamey Gambrell Dies at 65; Made Russian Writing Sing, in English
Daniel E. Slotnik//37 views
A pre-eminent translator of contemporary Russian authors like Tatyana Tolstaya and Vladimir Sorokin, she won a prestigious prize for translation in 2016. Jamey ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness
John Williams//33 views/1 comments
Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Everyone wants to be happy, but what seri...
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‘Recollections of My Nonexistence,’ By Rebecca Solnit: An Excerpt
Mary Jarvis//33 views
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. One day long ago, I looked at myself as I faced a full-lengt...
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‘My Dark Vanessa,’ by Kate Elizabeth Russell: An Excerpt
Steven Baker//34 views/2 comments
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. I get ready for work and the post has been up for eight hour...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Neurotic Filmmaker’s Life Story
Dave Itzkoff//33 views
Nonfiction BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR MOTHER Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker By Barry Sonnenfeld What kind of filmmaker does it take to imagine the universe of...
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Stalkers, Chat Bots and Trolls: Stories From Our Lives Online
Julie Bloom//32 views/1 comments
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN StoriesBy Mary South A v...
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What if Gatsby Worked at a Tech Start-Up?
Kaitlin Phillips//32 views/1 comments
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. NEW WAVES By Kevin Nguyen It can be thrilling, in a ...
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Two Lies and a Truth: Story Collections Exploring the Spectrum of Human Honesty
Jac Jemc//31 views
The Shortlist I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AMStoriesBy Peter Kispert226 pp. Penguin. Paper, $16. The 21 stories in “I Know You Know Who I Am” contain countless liars, ...