Books Archive
Archives for July 2019
The most well-known passage Marianne Williamson wrote has some disconcerting implications.
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Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists, talks to Ezra Klein about the power and purpose of utopian thinking.
A face-perfecting app only widens the gap between our digital and real selves.
It took author Lisa Taddeo a decade to write it.
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Whitehead’s follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning Underground Railroad exhumes the unmarked graves of a hellish Florida reform school.
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An excerpt from Last Witnesses, an oral history of World War II in Russia.
Our panel debates Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel, from dating apps to Presidentrix.
E. Jean Carroll’s oeuvre shows us how dramatically the way we talk about women’s pain has changed.
Critic Emily Nussbaum on the charms of modern television-watching.
Brodesser-Akner, who’s better known for her profiles of celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Paula Deen, says she wrote the book “mostly while I was waiting for an interview subject to show up.”
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s first novel builds on the roots of her empathetic celebrity profiles.