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Live and Learn
This week marks the publication of a landmark book of Black history, one that is sure to change the conversation about slavery and should be essential...
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Daylight Saving Reading
There is a melancholy that often descends when we turn back the clocks in November each year. It always affects my choice of reading material...
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Loyalists and Rebels
Compassionate short stories; tested loyalties; fiction and nonfiction explorations of two great writers; and the pairing of two devoted friends...
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Halloween Treats
A modern ghost story by a Pulitzer Prize-winner leads this week’s selections, followed by comic fiction about a troupe of characters in Edenic...
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The Vicissitudes of Love
Love and literature go well together—it might be romantic love, the love of culinary arts, the love of family, or the love of animals
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True Friends
“True friends stab you in the front,” as Oscar Wilde once said. Here are books about unbreakable bonds, about reconnecting with lost soul...
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Generations
A debut storyteller leads the list this week with a collection set in the volatile American South that’s not to be missed
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Stuck on You
The books here are stories about attachments—to family, to ourselves, and to the world. They include a meticulous examination of one family...
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Welcome In
We are thrilled to celebrate the Fall 2021 literary season with Anthony Doerr’s new novel below, set partly in Constantinople
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In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World
Two of this week’s selections confront the drastic changes in the world of climate change, with quite different takes on folding the issues...