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Rachel Kushner's new espionage thriller may be her coolest book yet

In Creation Lake, a hard-drinking American spy infiltrates a radical farming collective in a remote region of France. Kushner challenges readers to keep up with her and not to flinch.

September 10, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
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'Colored Television' is an ungentle satire set in post-post-racial America

Danzy Senna's new novel is an exhilarating yet poignant riff on the struggling artist as a wannabe middle-aged sellout. The writing is endlessly quotable and meaningfully provocative.

September 09, 2024
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  • Carole V. Bell

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'We're Alone,' but together, in Edwidge Danticat's remarkable essays

With clear, concise prose that delves into harsh topics without losing its sense of humor, Danticat once again proves that she is one of contemporary literature's strongest, most graceful voices.

September 09, 2024
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  • Gabino Iglesias

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Everything is the worst in this 'Banal Nightmare'

Novelist Halle Butler understands our worst enemy is sometimes our own brain. Her dark, chaotic novel manages to be often hilarious yet relentlessly uncheerful.

September 08, 2024
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  • Gabino Iglesias
GPB  NPR

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'I Just Keep Talking' is a refreshing and wide-ranging essay collection

Scholar, historian, artist and raconteur Nell Irvin Painter is the author of The History of White People and Old in Art School. Her latest book is an insightful addition to her canon.

September 05, 2024
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  • Martha Anne Toll
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Here are the new books we're looking forward to this fall

Bad news: Summer's over. Good news: Fall books are here! We've got a list of 16 titles — fiction and nonfiction — you'll want to look out for.

September 04, 2024
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  • Andrew Limbong
GPB  NPR

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This is genius: A new graphic novel imagines conversations between Einstein and Kafka

Turns out Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka lived in Prague at the same time and had the same circle of friends. In a new graphic novel, Ken Krimstein puts us in the room with two 20th century geniuses.

August 28, 2024
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  • Tahneer Oksman

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'Interpretations of Love' is debut novel for 82-year-old author

Two years ago, Cat Brushing, a collection of provocative stories about older women still very much in touch with the sensual side of life, put Jane Campbell on the map.

August 24, 2024
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  • Heller McAlpin
<em> Paradise Bronx</em>

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Frazier's 'Paradise Bronx' makes you want to linger in NYC's 'drive-through borough'

Ian Frazier’s signature voice — droll, ruminative, generous — draws readers in. But his underlying subject here is even bigger than the Bronx: It’s the way the past “bleeds through” the present.

August 22, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
<em> A Wilder Shore</em>

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'A Wilder Shore' charts the course of a famous bohemian marriage

Camille Peri's lively and substantive dual biography of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson offers a glimpse of their unconventional marriage — and an inspiration for living fearlessly.

August 19, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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Wendell Berry veers from gratitude to yearning in 'Another Day'

In his sequel to 'This Day,' Berry’s themes, including bringing alive the joys and sorrows of hard-working rural Kentuckians. are revisited in ways both familiar and fresh.

August 15, 2024
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  • Barbara J. King
GPB  NPR

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Blindsided by 'The Most': This is a superb novel of a marriage at its breakpoint

The story takes place in Newark, over the course of a single day in 1957, which we experience from the two spouses' alternating points of view. Jessica Anthony's novel deserves to become a classic.

July 30, 2024
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 Someone Like Us

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'Someone Like Us' is a fresh, idiosyncratic novel about immigrating to the U.S.

Dinaw Mengestu's ingenuity and eloquence as a writer are on display in this novel about an Ethiopian American man who returns home only to learn that his father has just died.

July 24, 2024
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  • Maureen Corrigan
GPB  NPR

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These dictators are different. 'Autocracy, Inc.' explains how

The dictators of today aren't united by ideology, writes Anne Applebaum: They operate like companies, focused on preserving their wealth, repressing their people and maintaining power at all costs.

July 24, 2024
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  • Frank Langfitt

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'Liars' is an autopsy of a bitterly disappointing marriage

In her fierce second novel, Sarah Manguso writes a requiem for a failed relationship from the point of view of a survivor, the wife left behind.

July 22, 2024
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