Books
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Jordan Peele’s upcoming HBO series places Lovecraftian cosmic horror within 1950s Jim Crow America.
Murder cults! Idyllic college campuses! A May where you can’t go outside is the perfect time to read The Secret History.
“Manhattan is literally built on trash and blood.”
Book recommendations for your very specific mood.
The End of October is not a good novel. But its eerie accuracy has given it an unsettling resonance.
“They slather another layer of nacho cheese on their product and call it a new product. There’s something about that that’s similar to writing, metaphorically.”
That’s a good thing.
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The Woman in White reveals her true identity at last.
A fantastical society hides behind masks in Hardinge’s eerily on-point 2012 novel A Face Like Glass.
Book recommendations for your very specific mood.
How Big Business shapes our habits and desires.
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The avatars of New York City’s boroughs are assembling.
Vox’s book critic recommends books to fit your very specific mood.
Why life during coronavirus will have “a permanent effect on people’s respect for reality.”
A new book chronicles the life of Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch.
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Let’s sing the city with N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became.
Vox recommends books for your very specific moods.
Artists, novelists, critics, and essayists are writing the first draft of history.
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Stories that tell us how to live in, and after, a pandemic.
Our pick for April is N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became.
In Ask a Book Critic, Vox recommends books for your very specific moods.
Authors are suffering under the pandemic economy, too. They say the Emergency Library will make things worse.
The City We Became is Jemisin’s follow up to her three-time Hugo-winning Broken Earth trilogy.
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Introducing Ask a Book Critic, in which we recommend a book to suit your mood.
In Apropos of Nothing, Woody Allen continues to deny Dylan Farrow’s claims of abuse. He says he has no regrets.
Weeks after Woody Allen’s old publisher dropped him, he found another. His book is now out.
M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf shows us how to take joy in the hardest of times.
“You go to sleep in one world and wake in another.”
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Her novels and novella dare to imagine a hopeful future for humanity. They’re exhilarating.
A brief social history of hand-washing.
The new book ends the saga begun 11 years ago with Wolf Hall.
As the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic spreads around the globe, “our biggest enemy is panic,” Brooks says.
What Albert Camus’s “The Plague” can teach us about life in a pandemic.