The short story collection Knots is lit-fiction hackwork

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Zinzi Clemmons’ grief-filled What We Lose brings new depth to an old topic

By Elena Bruess

Jul 10, 2017 12:00 AM

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Finally available in English, Out In The Open is a spry feat of style and story

By Shea Hennum

Jul 10, 2017 12:00 AM

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The author of Silver Linings Playbook brings modern politics to his latest dysfunctional family story

By Samantha Nelson

Jul 3, 2017 12:00 AM

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The Unruly Woman rises and stumbles in BuzzFeed writer’s new essay collection

By Danette Chavez

Jun 19, 2017 2:00 PM

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Two fascinating new books search the dregs of the past

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jun 19, 2017 12:00 AM

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Alan Alda’s book on communicating is perplexing and charming, in that order

By Ryan Vlastelica

Jun 12, 2017 12:00 AM

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Catherine Lacey’s masterful The Answers asks whether love can be made in a lab

By Laura Adamczyk

Jun 5, 2017 12:00 AM

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A sharp new book lets ’70s B-movies tell the story of an under-seen America

By Alex McLevy

Jun 5, 2017 12:00 AM

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Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness never figures out what kind of novel it wants to be

By Nandini Balial

Jun 5, 2017 12:00 AM

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Diary entries shouldn’t be as good as they are in David Sedaris’ Theft By Finding

By Caitlin PenzeyMoog

May 22, 2017 12:00 AM

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Michael Crichton’s resurrected Dragon Teeth should’ve stayed preserved in amber

By Rien Fertel

May 22, 2017 12:00 AM

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The Gene Kelly bio He’s Got Rhythm only occasionally creates that glorious feeling

By Ryan Vlastelica

May 22, 2017 12:00 AM

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How she became Precious is only a small part of Gabourey Sidibe’s entertaining memoir

By Molly Horan

May 8, 2017 12:00 AM

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Perverted poet Patricia Lockwood runs wild in the memoir Priestdaddy

By Laura Adamczyk

May 1, 2017 12:00 AM

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The Last Days Of Café Leila serves up a family’s history of exile

By Danette Chavez

Apr 17, 2017 10:25 AM

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Trump will have a field day tearing into Alec Baldwin’s Nevertheless

By Ryan Vlastelica

Apr 12, 2017 9:43 AM

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In Make Trouble, John Waters politely asks graduates to raise hell

By Nick Wanserski

Apr 10, 2017 12:00 AM

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Take a tour through Imaginary Cities, from Blade Runner to High-Rise to Gotham

By Shea Hennum

Apr 10, 2017 12:00 AM

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Read a crucial set of essays from the progenitor of “mansplaining”

By Caitlin PenzeyMoog

Apr 3, 2017 12:00 AM

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Gods and monsters are one and the same in Laini Taylor’s Strange The Dreamer

By Samantha Nelson

Mar 27, 2017 12:00 AM

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John Oates’ memoir is full of rock and soul

By Danette Chavez

Mar 27, 2017 12:00 AM

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The Spider Network hides a financial system fiasco in a character study

By Alex McLevy

Mar 20, 2017 12:00 AM

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Word By Word makes the surprisingly convincing case for “irregardless”

By Caitlin PenzeyMoog

Mar 17, 2017 2:46 PM

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The Idiot tells an exceedingly charming story about idiots in college

By Kelsey McKinney

Mar 13, 2017 12:00 AM

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Neither Charlton Heston’s “cold, dead hands” nor his films get their due in a new biography

By Ryan Vlastelica

Mar 13, 2017 12:00 AM

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Lyrical realism illuminates real immigration in the stunning Exit West

By Elena Bruess

Mar 6, 2017 7:00 AM