First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami (Knopf, 256 pages) Type “Haruki Murakami” into the Google search engine, and one of […]
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The Blizzard Party, by Jack Livings
The Blizzard Party, by Jack Livings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pages) If you have a pulse and live in […]
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Fears of a Setting Sun, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Fears of a Setting Sun, by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton University Press, 232 pages) Until recently, many Americans looked at […]
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Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf, 303 pages) If you tell Alexa to turn on your lights, have […]
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Life’s Edge: the Search for What It Means to Be Alive, by Carl Zimmer
Life’s Edge: the Search for What It Means to Be Alive, by Carl Zimmer (Dutton, 336 pages) In his 14th […]
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No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood
No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood (208 pages, Riverhead) Two-thirds through her first novel, Patricia Lockwood slyly […]
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BOOK NOTESIt seems strange for a book to come out first in paperback, but that’s the format for the new […]
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People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd
People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd (Harper, 275 pages) I don’t resent Mark Twain for using a pen name, so […]
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The Bad Muslim Discount, by Syed M. Masood
The Bad Muslim Discount, by Syed M. Masood (Doubleday, 368 pages) The Bad Muslim Discount is the second book by […]
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Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America, by Christine Leigh Heyrman
Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America, by Christine Leigh Heyrman (Knopf, 304 pages) Perform […]
