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Reviews & Essays
A READING LIFE
A Year in Reading: A Reviewer’s Favorites from 2019
By Katherine A. Powers
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Book critic Katherine A. Powers looks back on 2019 and selects five novels that opened welcome doors to alternate worlds....
ESSAYS
Didion, Revisited
Essay by David L. Ulin
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"I didn’t know what I was getting into." David L. Ulin on the experience of revisiting the writer whose novels and essays explore our paradoxical relationships with stories.
FICTION
Nothing to See Here
By KEVIN WILSON
Reviewed by Kate Tuttle
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In the new novel from the author of "The Family Fang," a pair of siblings shares a mysterious -- and destructive -- ailment.
FICTION
The Topeka School
By BEN LERNER
Reviewed by David L. Ulin
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In the new novel from the author of "Leaving the Atocha Station," the boundary between invention and memory isn't a wall; it's a playground....
FICTION
Country
By MICHAEL HUGHES
Reviewed by Anna Mundow
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The ancient tale of the siege of Troy is transplanted to Northern Ireland at the close of the twentieth century in Michael Hughes's novel.
MEMOIR
My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You
By ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Reviewed by Katherine A. Powers
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In a unique work of double memoir, Aleksandar Hemon explores the intersection of exile, memory and longing....
FICTION
Akin
By EMMA DONOGHUE
Reviewed by Heller McAlpin
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In Emma Donoghue's latest novel, a man's quest to understand his family history gets tangled up with his family's future....
ECONOMICS
The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
By BINYAMIN APPLEBAUM
Posted by Hamilton Cain
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The new book by the financial journalist traces the journey of a powerful ideology from academic papers to the corridors of power.
REVIEWS
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
By CECELIA WATSON
Reviewed by David L. Ulin
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The hybrid punctuation mark has met with resistance from many readers and writers since its invention by an early printer. But the semicolon endures.
FICTION
The Nickel Boys
By COLSON WHITEHEAD
Reviewed by Walton Muyumba
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Colson Whitehead's new novel tells the story of two boys incarcerated a Florida "academy" -- and raises haunting questions about the nature and price of resistance.
AMERICAN HISTORY
David McCullough and the Meaning of History
By Steve King
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Why the writer's work capturing "the Spirit of America" has never been more timely.
MYSTERY
Big Sky
By KATE ATKINSON
Reviewed by Anna Mundow
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Kate Atkinson's detective Jackson Brodie returns, picking up the threads of a not-so-cold case in a novel whose mysteries come in layers.
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