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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...
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Varieties of Exile
Several disparate yet extraordinary voices this week are linked by themes of heritage and displacement—from North Africa to Puerto Rico, Poland...
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Women's Intuition
A selection of five new novels with page-turning plots by women start off our reading in the new year. Here we have a novelist whose 2020 debut...
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Joy to the World
This roundup of our 25 bestselling books from 2023 can act as a last-minute holiday gift guide for your family and friends—or for yourself...
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
This week bookseller extraordinaire Leah Bronstein guest-edits the newsletter to share some of her favorite books for young readers from 2023
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May We Recommend...
My esteemed colleagues at The Center for Fiction are avid and passionate readers. In the Bookstore we get to recommend titles to customers all...
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Cultural Concoctions
Here is a selection of work from writers around the world that reminds us, as Virginia Woolf wrote, “Literature is open to everybody