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A Brief History of Summer Reading

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When the days get longer and the temperature starts to rise, books start appearing. Sunscreen-dappled paperbacks are bundled into beach bags and...
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Cults, College Dropouts and The Art of Control in Two New Story Collections

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Ohlin's sly irony highlights the painful plight of characters for whom closure is unattainable. In "FMK", Sonia is accompanied by an ex-lover...
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Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80

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"Calasso carved a new niche as an intellectual, seeing myth as true, certainly as true as science," said Tim Parks, who on the...
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Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Disastrous Novel

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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | sewing machine | how to listenOmar Al Akkad's...
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What to do this weekend

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You are welcome. August begins on Sunday, a new month, a great time to set an intention for the weeks ahead. ...
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Legends Remade: New Science Fiction and Fantasy

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marissa levins The World Gives Way (Redhook, 402 pp., $28) A Shocking Marvel, an action-packed cat-and-mouse chase aboard a wrecked generation ship the...
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Alexandra Kleiman finds reality too real

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Whereas in "You Can Have a Body Like Mine", the bodies themselves were plastic, shape-shifting until they lost all traces of their original...
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Eve L. Ewing Adds a Dash of Black Girl Magic to STEM-Based Education

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maya and the robotby Eve L. EwingIllustrated by Christine AlmeidaDiversity (or, more precisely, lack thereof) has long been a huge problem in technology...
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Painter of Black Life for Children, Floyd Cooper, dies at 65

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Floyd Cooper, a noted children's book illustrator who explored the African American experience in stories rooted in history, such as the 1955 story...
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11 New Books We Recommend This Week

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Vixenhandjob by Francine Prose. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.) In Prose's latest novel, set in the 1950s, a young editor is hired by a New...
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Everything Old Is New Again and Other Best Selling Knowledge

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A look at this week's popular novels reminds us that good writing runs in families, wet T-shirts grab attention and you can't hide...
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Eric Larson Has a Horror Story He’ll Want You to Hear

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The evolution of the audio original marks a change in the way authors and publishers view what was once regarded as an addendum...
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fantasy summer

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You are welcome. It's hard to believe that another month is drawing to a close, with summer again seeping into its half....
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This novel reimagines a power broker who trods lightly and leaves a huge footprint.

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It's not even really a police procedural, though one side of the story follows Inspector McCluskey's attempt to solve the puzzle of why...
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On stage, the pen is usually duller than the sword.

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GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS - Writing is boring. I should know. I just spent half an hour revising that first sentence.Playwrights nonetheless...
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New and remarkable, from horse girls to the ER doctor’s approach to COVID

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Recent titles of note:The Year of the Plague: A Memoir of 2020, by Fred D'Aguirre. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) In a year of public...
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Funny and soulful stories from a writer who just started

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Anthony Vesna So's witty and sharply articulated short stories are set in the Central Valley—a "valley of dust and pollen and California smog",...
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Finding the ‘believers’ who will remake a damaged Earth

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believersmaking a life at the end of the worldby Lisa Wells"Believers" is the book of a young woman wandering at a time when...
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‘The Dark Part of My Life’: 5 Excerpts from Mena Suvari’s Book

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When she began her acting career, Mena Suvari quickly became used to playing the very small object of a man's desires.In 1999 and...
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The Secret of My Obsession with Agatha Christie

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The more time I spent with Poirot, the more our pandemic routines became less like boring compulsions and more like apprentice detective work.It...
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