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Another installment in the author’s portraits of everyday struggles — and this one is a long-winded, shaggy affair.
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When did we last see a novel of such stimulating complexity that’s so downright hopeful too?
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Ah, Florida, “the grease trap under America’s George Foreman Grill”: not just “weird America,” also “impending America.”
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In Extremis is required reading not only for anyone interested in war, but for anyone interested in how an unusual woman makes her way in the world.
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In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
Read MoreWhat could easily have become a dense, jargon-filled work of cultural psychology instead reads like a thoughtful conversation.
Read MoreTwo books — one nonfiction, the other fiction — that deal with Jewish history.
Read MoreJay McInerney’s characters may live on exotic mixed drinks and fine wines, but they still suffer moral dilemmas and have consciences they cannot silence.
Read MoreIn no way does Sweetbitter succeed in doing what you are led to expect of it: to frame the post-9/11 zeitgeist.
Read MoreWith this excellent volume, Robert Tombs offers further proof that there should be no variance between good history and good writing.
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