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William Goldman loved The Princess Bride so much he could never quite end it. We can’t either.
A social media campaign shows whose stories publishers value — and whose they’re willing to pay for.
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Plus, the battle of wits, the Fire Swamp, and the Machine.
In the wake of the anti-police brutality protests, sales of books on anti-racism are surging.
The Harry Potter book series helped me realize I’m nonbinary. Now I know that had nothing to do with J.K. Rowling.
In this new novel, one light-skinned twin marries a dark-skinned man. The other starts passing for white.
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The Princess Bride is a celebration of pure swashbuckling adventure.
HBO’s upcoming horror series is a supernatural allegory for racism. Its latest trailer ditches the allegory.
The Vox Book Club’s live event covered how The Secret History fits into dark academia and why Bunny would be the worst at quarantine.
The left-wing group is back in the news. An expert explains where they come from and what they want.
Ellen Raskin’s 1978 novel is a technically perfect mystery. It’s also ideal reading for when you need an escape.
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Prepare to read.
After a month of conversation, it’s time to talk murder, Bacchanalias, and liberal arts curriculums.
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You can’t stop the pandemic. But you can read a housekeeping manual that tells you how to remove any stain imaginable.
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The classics kids face their final death at the end of The Secret History.
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rodham is a wildly compelling and occasionally icky alternate history.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is your apocalyptic escape from our current apocalypse.
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A book, a video game, and a TV show to add to your cultural queue.
You know things are getting rough when Henry wants a television.
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Hazel Jane Plante’s Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) is an amazing novel about death, love, and television.
“We’re trying to resolve an uncertainty that is unresolvable.”
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Our book club tackles the first half of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.
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This Norwegian masterwork is over 1,000 pages long — and it may be the perfect book for the current moment.
Family secrets come soothingly to light in Straub’s fifth novel.
Great books you can read in quarantine, organized by level of difficulty.
Colson Whitehead just became the fourth writer ever to win two Pulitzers for fiction.
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