Books
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Helen Vendler Believed Poetry Matters
She devoted her life to showing us how and why.
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Letter by Letter, Steve Gleason Typed His Memoir With His Eyes
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). I have always loved to read, and I read nearly anywhere.…
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She Loves Amalfi, Aperol and Killing Off Her Ex in Fiction
Eleanor Dash, the Aperol spritz-loving narrator of Catherine Mack’s fizzy series debut, EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES…
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If You Read One Romance This Spring, Make It This One
Spring! There’s no better time of year for a baseball romance. We’ll wind up the column with a much-anticipated book…
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Searching for the Real ‘Anna O.’
As described by Gabriel Brownstein, the basis for one of Freud’s most famous cases posed as many questions as it…
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Jane Smiley’s Folk Music Novel Hits Some Bum Notes
“Lucky” features a 1970s singer-songwriter who finds improbable success.
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A Novel of Lost Daughters and Waylaid Lives
Prison, pregnancies and other operatic turns propel Caroline Leavitt’s latest book, “Days of Wonder.”
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‘James,’ ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the Triumph of Literary Fan Fiction
How Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver reimagined classic works by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
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Anne Lamott Has Written Classics. This Is Not One of Them.
Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction.
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How Did Fan Culture Take Over? And Why Is It So Scary?
REBOOT, by Justin Taylor There are two kinds of novels about American life in the digital age: panoramas and selfies.…