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From One Extreme to Another
This week we have novels brimming with hilarity and heartbreak, farce and catastrophe. Each extreme is hard to pull off, but these writers have...
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Fountain of Youth
Several selections this week feature young protagonists as we explore past and present: in a Polish Gothic novel; with a closeted gay teen in...
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The Heart’s Desire
This week we cover stories about family, love, and characters who are haunted by their pasts and potential futures. Visit a Caribbean island in...
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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...