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'People Collide' is a 'Freaky Friday'-type exploration of the self and persona

Isle McElroy's novel covers a deep exploration of marriage, love, and the ways we know one another — while also touching on how so much of how we navigate the world depends on how it sees us.

September 26, 2023
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The dystopian suspense 'Land of Milk and Honey' satisfies all manner of appetites

Set in the near future, C Pam Zhang's atmospheric novel centers on a chef who takes a job at a tech entrepreneur's isolated compound after smog kills most of Earth's plant and animal species.

September 26, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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Michael Harriot's 'Black AF History' could hardly come at a better time

This engaging, well-researched, and frequently laugh-out-loud funny history places the Black experience at center stage with stories that should have already been part of our collective memory.

September 22, 2023
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  • Ericka Taylor

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Lauren Groff's survivalist novel 'The Vaster Wilds' will test your endurance, too

An impoverished servant girl escapes the fledgling Jamestown colony during the winter of 1609–1610 in a historical saga that takes its inspiration from Robinson Crusoe.

September 21, 2023
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'Wellness' is a perfect novel for our age, its profound sadness tempered with humor

Nathan Hill's stunning new novel about the stories we tell about our lives and our loves, and how we sustain relationships throughout time, is both funny and heartbreaking, sometimes on the same page.

September 20, 2023
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'North Woods' is the story of a place and its inhabitants over centuries

Daniel Mason's gorgeous fifth novel tells of a yellow house deep in the woods of western Massachusetts — and its motley succession of occupants who leave their mark on the property.

September 19, 2023
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Love, identity and ambition take center stage in 'Roaming'

Roaming, spanning five days as old friends Dani and Zoe reunite on their first break from college, is the first adult graphic novel from Caldecott-winning cousins Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki.

September 18, 2023
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  • Julie Depenbrock

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In 'The Enchanters' James Ellroy brings Freddy Otash into 1960s L.A.

The Enchanters marks the return of Freddy O — a disgraced ex-LAPD cop and Confidential magazine dirt digger turned shifty private investigator and Hollywood fixer — and introduces Marilyn Monroe.

September 13, 2023
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'Daughter' explores a dysfunctional relationship between father and daughter

Daughter is an intensely psychological novel, one that poses questions it doesn't, and maybe can't, answer. There are flashes of Claudia Dey's usually excellent writing, but not consistently enough.

September 12, 2023
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'The Fraud' asks questions as it unearths stories that need to be told

Zadie Smith's latest novel revisiting a piece of history is packed with great writing and shining passages that go from humorous to deeply philosophical. But it is also very long.

September 09, 2023
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'Wednesday's Child' deals in life after loss

The stories in Yiyun Li's book focus chiefly on people trying to put themselves together after loss, dealing with anguish that takes its time and rises from its dormancy at unexpected moments.

September 07, 2023
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Descendants of a famous poet wrestle with his vexed legacy in 'The Wren, The Wren'

An acclaimed Irish poet deserts his sick wife and two young daughters. Anne Enright's new novel centers on the way that betrayal reverberates throughout the next generations.

September 07, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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'Holly' is one of Stephen King's most political novels to date

Holly is a gripping crime novel — one that's very close to the traditional King horror aesthetic. The author hasn't been shy about his politics, but this is one of his most political books to date.

September 06, 2023
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5 YA books for fall that give academia vibes

These new tales offer up eerie magics, mysterious buildings, tentative friendships, and a whole lot of excellent excuses for why someone's homework didn't get done.

September 06, 2023
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'A Guest in the House' rests on atmosphere, delivering an uncanny, wild ride

Though inscrutabilities persist in the plot of Emily Carroll's new adult horror graphic novel, the chilling ambiance makes this book one worth visiting.

August 28, 2023
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