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DEENA SO OTEH
HORROR

Read It and Scream

Here are eight knuckle-biting, nerve-ripping new tales, just in time for Halloween.
October 25, 2021

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ON POETRY

Louise Glück’s Stark New Book Affirms Her Icy Precision

Consisting of just 15 poems, “Winter Recipes From the Collective” extends the Nobel laureate’s
interest in silence and the void, Elisa Gabbert writes in her latest column.
October 26, 2021

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JOSH GOING
NONFICTION

Alan Cumming Took Ecstasy to Quell His Nerves on Tony Night, ‘and It
Worked’
And other revelations from the actor’s second memoir, “Baggage.”
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October 23, 2021

CHRIS GASH
NONFICTION

John McWhorter Argues That Antiracism Has Become a Religion of

the Left
McWhorter’s “Woke Racism” is a call for Americans to rethink the debates over racism and white
supremacy.
October 26, 2021

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Behind the Jim Crow Curtain
“Opal’s Greenwood Oasis” and “Unspeakable” restore the often-elided history of a
prosperous, close-knit Black community on the eve of its destruction.

May 28, 2021

FICTION
‘The Other Black Girl’ Is an Immersive, Genre-Bending Debut
Zakiya Dalila Harris places her readers in the shoes of one of two Black employees at a
New York City publishing company.

May 26, 2021

NONFICTION
Juul Wanted to Disrupt Big Tobacco. Instead It Created an Epidemic
of Addiction.
In “The Devil’s Playbook,” Lauren Etter tells the story of the rise and fall of the start-up
that tried to upend the cigarette industry.
May 25, 2021

FICTION
Bullied and Shunned, They Found a New Way to See the World
In “Heaven,” by Mieko Kawakami, two teenagers find solace and meaning in the face of
ruthless torment.

May 25, 2021

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Was Richard Nixon a Tragic Hero?
Michael Dobbs’s “King Richard” tells the story of the first few months after Nixon’s
second inaugural, when his eventual downfall was becoming clear.

May 25, 2021

FICTION
Scrolling While the World Burns
Richard Flanagan’s new novel, “The Living Sea of Waking Dreams,” urges us to pay
attention to the things that matter.

May 25, 2021

NONFICTION
A Complaint Against Liberal Modernity, and a Solution: Faith
In “The Unbroken Thread,” Sohrab Ahmari sees Western society as having
overreached on freedom and lost a sense of rootedness in tradition and community.

May 20, 2021

FICTION
From the Ice of Greenland, a Deadly Virus and a Familiar Doom
In “Phase Six,” by Jim Shepard, pathogens released from excavated permafrost set off
a global pandemic.

May 20, 2021

FICTION
A Young Murderer Grows Up, and Has a Child of Her Own
In her debut novel, “The First Day of Spring,” Nancy Tucker takes readers to some
very ugly places. In a good way.

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May 18, 2021

NONFICTION
For a Fairer World, It’s Necessary First to Cut Through the ‘Noise’
In their new book, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein address the
necessity of “noise reduction,” eliminating the randomness that enters decision making
of all sorts.

May 18, 2021

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