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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...
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What’s Going On
With September in full swing there are many events to celebrate. We mark the beginning of National Hispanic Literature Month with an indispensable...
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Getting By
Characters, real and imagined, deal with the hands they were dealt—whether it is surviving the contemporary pandemic, hunger in the 1600s, or...
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
Whether it’s due to growing up celebrating the Jewish New Year or from living in New York where September brings a deluge of exciting new...
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Search and You Will Find
This week look for a Korean American father who goes missing; a harrowing novel about survival in the sea; a portrait of a 19th century German...