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If one is the sort of person who takes pleasure in intelligent meanness, Hardwick is certainly one of its master practitioners. She is sharp in her satirizing, icy in her …
Strange, Slippery and Beautiful: A Master Essayist at Work Read MoreTHE BAR AT TWILIGHT: Stories, by Frederic Tuten In “Lives of the Artists,” a short story in Frederic Tuten’s engrossing new collection, a couple goes to see Jean-Luc Godard’s “Bande …
Book Review: ‘The Bar at Twilight,’ by Frederic Tuten Read MoreWE HAD TO REMOVE THIS POST, by Hanna Bervoets, translated by Emma Rault Hanna Bervoets’s slim, potent new novel, “We Had to Remove This Post,” appears at first to be …
A New Psychological Thriller Explores the Grim Underbelly of Life as a Social Media Moderator Read MoreEITHER / ORBy Elif Batuman I’m not sure what I think about “Either / Or,” Elif Batuman’s sequel to her 2017 novel “The Idiot.” I’m not entirely sure what I …
Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. Read MoreFrom the sexy to the searing, the metaphysical to the unabashedly depraved, horror to high camp, these recent audiobooks in a variety of genres are hard to turn off. 🎧 …
6 Audiobooks to Listen to Now Read MoreTHE UPSIDE DOWN HATBy Stephen BarrIllustrated by Gracey Zhang COURAGE HATSBy Kate HoeflerIllustrated by Jessixa Bagley MAE MAKES A WAYThe True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History MakerBy Olugbemisola …
A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books Read MoreWhat books are on your night stand? On my night stand, always, is a tattered volume of “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke” and story collections by Raymond Carver and …
Ann Leary Likes Scary Stories Read MoreIn this alternate narrative of Hong Kong, free of the straitjacket of state-sponsored history, Lim places the recent protests in the territory’s centuries-long history of rebellion, stretching back to when …
Review: ‘Indelible City,’ by Louisa Lim; and ‘The Impossible City,’ by Karen Cheung Read MoreTHE ABSOLUTEBy Daniel GuebelTranslated by Jessica Sequeira Daniel Guebel’s novel – his 15th, though the first to appear in English – is a quixotic enterprise concerned with a quixotic enterprise …
A Family of Geniuses and Their Search for Transcendence Read MoreSPARE PARTSThe Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant SurgeryBy Paul Craddock Paul Craddock’s “Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery” opens midoperation, as …
A Medical History of Transplant Surgery That’s Not for the Squeamish Read More