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4 stars
This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's …
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3 stars
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in …
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4 stars
On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E. M. Forster. …
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of …
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The Human Stain by Philip Roth (The American Trilogy, #3)
4 stars
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment …
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4 stars
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing under mysterious circumstances. Hisham would never …
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The collected stories of Lydia Davis. by Lydia Davis
4 stars
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal …
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Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
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A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest …
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4 stars
"If Americans in the future were to try to send us a message about where our culture is heading, they …
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The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
4 stars
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is …
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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
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A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. …
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes, Fernanda Melchor
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The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the …
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Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan, John Jeremiah Sullivan
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"A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star …
