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Cooking Up a Storm
The holiday season is often a time for gathering in the kitchen or entertaining friends and family. This week we have a roundup of a dozen of...
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Late Editions
As we approach the holiday season, there are some stellar books still to come. This week, two novels tackle a group effort to save the world
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Natural Selection
Let’s be thankful this November for these five extraordinary writers with new works of fiction. We have a master of prose returning with a novel...
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Only Connect
To take the sting out of the end of Daylight Saving Time, we’ve started compiling your cold weather reading lists, including: a spectacular...
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How Spooky
As we approach Halloween it seems timely to read fiction that is in some way ghostly. This week each book has disturbing aspects that fit the...
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Take the Journey
These five books are examples of what reading pleasures still await in the fall season. An extraordinary portrait of an enslaved girl; a welcome...
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Dénouement
This week we have murder in Bordeaux, as well as in British Malaya (by an author we have the pleasure of hosting); a rumination on the end of...
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Stories to Tell
Four striking collections of stories, and the most recent novel by a prize-winning queer Black writer who is launching his book at The Center...
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How We Live
This week we have two powerful memoirs from writers who came to the U.S. after difficult childhoods; the funniest novel you’ll ever read about...
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Places Between
An Italian dystopian future; an epic novel about the natural world through the lens of a single dwelling; a South African writer’s music-infused...