Books
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What Drives Kaveh Akbar? The Responsibility of Survival
When Kaveh Akbar was drinking, he would regularly wake up to find new bruises or gashes on his body, or…
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José Saramago’s Childhood Memoir Inspires Companion Picture Books
The Nobel laureate’s “Small Memories” is a mix of peasant life, boyhood adventure and wide-eyed wonder.
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Janice Y.K. Lee Was Thrilled to Help Adapt Her Novel for Streaming
What books are on your night stand? “Everything/Nothing/Someone” by Alice Carrière, “Everything’s Fine” by Cecilia Rabess, “The Drama of the…
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This Month, Warm Up With a Sizzling-Hot Romance Novel
January is the month for second chances, so it’s fitting that this year’s first book is one I had to…
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Living With Fire When It’s Fire Season All Year Round
THE LAST FIRE SEASON: A Personal and Pyronatural History, by Manjula Martin Even after evacuating her home in Sonoma County,…
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Could LSD Have Achieved World Peace? Ask Margaret Mead.
In “Tripping on Utopia,” Benjamin Breen chronicles the legendary anthropologist’s doomed effort to save the world through hallucinogens.
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How a Young Woman From the Ozarks Wound Up an ISIS Wife in Syria
Jessica Roy’s “American Girls” traces the divergent fates of two sisters through a saga of poverty, misogyny, abuse and terrorism.
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When We Look at the Moon, We See Ourselves — Craters and All
In “Our Moon,” Rebecca Boyle elucidates how Earth’s closest neighbor makes us what — and who — we are.
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Three Novels, Three Different Responses to Groupthink
In the midst of chaos, the characters in these books find their own ways to metabolize real-life tragedy.
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Can You Escape the Algorithm? ‘Filterworld’ Gives It a Try.
An experiment in digital disengagement prompts Kyle Chayka to consider how technology has narrowed our choices and dulled the culture.