With the release of the illustrated cover for Sally Rooney’s new novel, ere’s everything we know about Beautiful World, Where Are […]
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Bolu Babalola’s Stories Reset the Idea of Who Sees and Who Is Seen
LOVE IN COLORMythical Tales From Around the World, RetoldBy Bolu Babalola Before she was a best-selling author, the Nigerian-British writer […]
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An Old Man’s Youthful Fascinations Animate Cynthia Ozick’s New Novel
ANTIQUITIESBy Cynthia Ozick Given the vicissitudes of the present, it can be a relief to sink into a fictional past, […]
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Missing Girls and a Bit of Mysticism, in Paula McLain’s Debut Thriller
WHEN THE STARS GO DARKBy Paula McLain Having turned the last page of Paula McLain’s latest novel, I found myself […]
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Rachel Kushner Remembers Her Hard-Rocking Friends, Many of Whom Are Gone
THE HARD CROWDEssays 2000-2020By Rachel Kushner Not long ago I met a Frenchwoman legendary for her youthful wildness. One story […]
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New in Paperback: ‘Exciting Times’ and ‘Leave Only Footprints’
EXCITING TIMES, by Naoise Dolan. (Ecco, 256 pp., $16.99.) “Jealousy and obsession, love and late capitalism, sex and the internet […]
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Star of Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly reveals his career in new book
Dogfather who can make your mutt waggy ever after: Star of Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly reveals his unexpected […]
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‘The Writing Hasn’t Changed’: Amanda Gorman on Life Post-Inauguration
A STAR IS BORN So far this year, Amanda Gorman has read her poetry aloud before two of the biggest […]
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For Caleb Azumah Nelson, There’s Freedom in Feeling Seen
Last December, Caleb Azumah Nelson visited Tate Britain to see “Fly in League With the Night,” an exhibit featuring the […]
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The Hazards of American Justice
HALFWAY HOME Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass IncarcerationBy Reuben Jonathan Miller352 pp. Little, Brown. $29. A combination of […]
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