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'We Should Not Be Friends' offers a rare view of male friendship

Literary editor Will Schwalbe's new book is a tale about connecting across divides — which is particularly heartening in our polarized culture.

February 23, 2023
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  • Heller McAlpin

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5 new mysteries and thrillers to help get you through winter

The long days of January and February usually herald some great reads featuring crime, suspense and — everyone's favorite — murder.

February 21, 2023
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  • Bethanne Patrick

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Want to be a writer? This bleak but buoyant guide says to get used to rejection

On Writing and Failure isn't your standard meditation on the art and nobility of writing as a profession; instead, author Stephen Marche argues writers should be prepared to fail — again and again.

February 14, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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'All the Beauty in the World' conveys Met guard's profound appreciation for art

Patrick Bringley's story — he jumped off the career ladder, deliberately taking a position divorced from ambition in order to find the space for quiet contemplation — is oddly suited to our times.

February 14, 2023
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  • Heller McAlpin

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'Hijab Butch Blues' challenges stereotypes and upholds activist self-care

Lamya H's memoir is a study guide on Islam and a queer manifesto that follows them from a childhood a move to the U.S. through questions of faith, gender and sexuality.

February 13, 2023
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  • Ashlee Green

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3 books in translation that have received acclaim in their original languages

On a Woman's Madness and Forbidden Notebook have been highly lauded in their original languages for decades but, like the more recent Black Foam, inaccessible to English readers — until now.

February 10, 2023
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  • Lily Meyer
Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg waits in Erkelenz, Germany, to take part in a demonstration at a nearby a coal mine on Jan. 14.

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Greta Thunberg's 'The Climate Book' urges world to keep climate justice out front

Activist Greta Thunberg was just 15 when she called on the world to take action on the climate crisis. Just as impressively, she has now pulled together essays by 100 scholars on what's needed now.

February 09, 2023
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  • Barbara J. King

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A showbiz striver gets one more moment in the spotlight in 'Up With the Sun'

Author Thomas Mallon's sweeping new historical novel captures a slice of gay life in mid-to-late 20th century America as it reimagines the life — and violent death — of B-list actor Dick Kallman.

February 07, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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'Brutes' captures the simultaneous impatience and mercurial swings of girlhood

In plunging us into the collective mind of a group of girls watching the search for a missing girl, author Dizz Tate creates an original, stylistically ambitious take on well-trodden subject matter.

February 07, 2023
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  • Kristen Martin

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'Black on Black' celebrates Black culture while exploring history and racial tension

Daniel Black's essays call for an overhaul of the U.S. criminal justice system, of the Black church, of the way Black people see themselves, and of the country itself — and do so with authority

February 02, 2023
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  • Gabino Iglesias

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5 YA books this winter dealing with identity and overcoming hardships

The pale daylight and early darkness of winter create a space for stories — in particular for stories that ask the reader to mull themes and ideas that can sometimes be difficult.

February 01, 2023
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  • Caitlyn Paxson

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Classic LA noir meets the #MeToo era in the suspense novel 'Everybody Knows'

Jordan Harper's hardboiled plot centers on a "black-bag publicist" who works for a prestige crisis management firm, putting out fires and quieting scandals for Hollywood's elite.

January 26, 2023
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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'After Sappho' brings women in history to life to claim their stories

Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is partly a love letter to Virginia Woolf and poet Sappho, partly a work of literary criticism and partly a speculative biography.

January 26, 2023
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  • Rhoda Feng

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'Children of the State' examines the American juvenile justice system

In a new book, Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, looks at the evolution of the juvenile justice system in America — primarily through people, not statistics.

January 25, 2023
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  • Martha Anne Toll

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'How to Sell a Haunted House' is campy and tense, dark but also deep

Grady Hendrix's tale of siblings who come together after the deaths of their parents to sell their house fully embraces all the elements readers have come to love about Hendrix's storytelling.

January 20, 2023
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  • Gabino Iglesias
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