HADES, ARGENTINA By Daniel Loedel One of the signal achievements of contemporary Argentine fiction has been to take the country’s […]
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Gary Paulsen’s Real-Life Survival Guide
GONE TO THE WOODSSurviving a Lost ChildhoodBy Gary Paulsen Authors’ childhood experiences — no matter how joyous or upsetting — […]
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‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor
ICEBOUNDShipwrecked at the Edge of the WorldBy Andrea Pitzer Europeans once dreamed of an open sea at the top of […]
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THRILLERS
THRILLERS THE NIGHT AGENT by Matthew Quirk (Head of Zeus £18.99, 432 pp) THE NIGHT AGENT by Matthew Quirk (Head […]
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Ernest Cline Was ‘Raised by Screens.’ Look How Well He Turned Out!
GAME ON When “Ready Player One” came out in 2011, Ernest Cline bought his dream car — a “Back to […]
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‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism
Quickly: What one trait defines the great heroines of American literature? Don’t invoke their grim ends. Can one quality in […]
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In ‘The Liar’s Dictionary,’ People Work on the Definition of Love and Many Other Words
“The only ones for me are the mad ones,” begins Jack Kerouac’s famous sentence. “The ones who are mad to […]
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Cat Girl? A Kinder, Gentler Superhero Comic
KATIE THE CATSITTERWritten by Colleen AF VenableIllustrated by Stephanie Yue I have always had a fraught relationship with cats. I […]
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That Time When Theodore Dreiser Slapped Sinclair Lewis in the Face
Both grew up in the Midwest, both wrote novels that skewered the patriarchal, conformist towns where they were raised, and […]
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4 Young Adult Crossover Novels
DEAR JUSTYCEBy Nic Stone288 pp. Crown. $18.99. In Stone’s 2017 book “Dear Martin,” Justyce McAllister, a Black student attending a […]
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