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Dec 5, 2025
In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with works of coherent voice and vision. Some people find it harder to read during days overflowing...
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Dec 1, 2025
The problem with intellectual fashion is that you can fall out of it so easily. For Maggie Nelson—whose much-praised 2015 memoir, The Argonauts, captured a particular...
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Mar 13, 2025
The heroine of Karen Russell’s new novel, The Antidote—her second—is a plucky teenage girl intent on excelling at a practice typically reserved for boys. This...
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Feb 6, 2025
“The worst is not. So long as we can say ‘This is the worst,’ ” go the lines from King Lear quoted in Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven....
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Jan 10, 2025
For most of my adult life, I was a binge cleaner. I lived in small apartments in big cities where I rarely entertained anyone—not when there were countless fun places to eat...
Dec 5, 2025In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with works of coherent voice and vision. Some people find it harder to read during days overflowing...
Dec 1, 2025The problem with intellectual fashion is that you can fall out of it so easily. For Maggie Nelson—whose much-praised 2015 memoir, The Argonauts, captured a particular...
Mar 13, 2025The heroine of Karen Russell’s new novel, The Antidote—her second—is a plucky teenage girl intent on excelling at a practice typically reserved for boys. This...
Feb 6, 2025“The worst is not. So long as we can say ‘This is the worst,’ ” go the lines from King Lear quoted in Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven....
Jan 10, 2025For most of my adult life, I was a binge cleaner. I lived in small apartments in big cities where I rarely entertained anyone—not when there were countless fun places to eat...