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Arts & Letters
In this week’s selection we recommend a stunning debut from a veritable polymath; two books about ’80s artists in Soho—a definitive...
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Crimes and Passion
Though we get an extra day this month (thanks to the leap year), folklore suggests February 29th is bad luck. The characters in these four novels...
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Life Stories
This week we dig deep into lives real and imagined, past and present: three memoirs, one in verse; a posthumous essay collection; and of course...
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Hearts and Flowers?
This Valentine’s issue of our newsletter presents two books about love in its various iterations, both happy and sad, always complicated
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Out of the Shadows
If the groundhog’s prediction is to be believed, we can look forward to an early spring, but in the meantime, there are treasures published...
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Thrilling
These five novels are all suspenseful in their own ways—not just because there are three gripping crime stories (including two debuts), but...
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Mind Over Matter
Books that are informed by the cultures of Iran, Vietnam, Denmark, and Ukraine will take you to faraway places this week, and deep into the minds...
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Varieties of Exile
Several disparate yet extraordinary voices this week are linked by themes of heritage and displacement—from North Africa to Puerto Rico, Poland...
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Women's Intuition
A selection of five new novels with page-turning plots by women start off our reading in the new year. Here we have a novelist whose 2020 debut...
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The Literarians: 2023 Selections
Featuring titles by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tess Gunty, Percival Everett, Salman Rushdie, Rebecca Makkai, Eleanor Catton, Alba de Céspedes, Nana Kwame...