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In 'Intimacies, Received,' moments of intimacy come tangled with moments of violence

Taneum Bambrick's second collection of poems portrays how moments of intimacy can represent moments of violence – and how difficult it can be to untangle the two from each other.

September 27, 2022
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  • Jeevika Verma
Less is Lost, by Andrew Sean Greer

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'Less' offers more in Andrew Sean Greer's follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning novel

Greer's new comic novel, Less is Lost, is as funny and poignant as its predecessor. But comedy also arises out of pain and Greer smoothly transitions into the profound.

September 26, 2022
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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With 'Ducks,' the creator of Hark! A Vagrant reveals her shadow side

Kate Beaton, the mind that gave us perky revolutionaries and a roly-poly Napoleon, now tells the darker side of her life story: how she suffered during the two years she worked in Alberta's oil field.

September 22, 2022
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  • Etelka Lehoczky

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'Lucy By The Sea' succeeds at capturing disruptions, anxieties of pandemic

Elizabeth Strout's latest is a chronicle of a plague year — and also of the main character's growing insights into herself, her family, and their changing relationships during this period.

September 21, 2022
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  • Heller McAlpin

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New Trump tome 'The Divider' offers most comprehensive chronicle of his term to date

The book by veteran journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser is a rushing torrent of anecdotes and recollections. A reader may plunge in at any point and pull up a pail of Trump at full tilt.

September 20, 2022
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  • Ron Elving

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Ling Ma's stories start out familiar but get very, very weird

Nothing is just one thing in Bliss Montage: Satire swirls into savagery; a gimmicky premise into poignancy. Ma writes with such authority that readers are simply swept along.

September 14, 2022
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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David Milch's 'Life's Work' holds lessons about humanity and the power of art

The TV creator's memoir was written in collaboration with his wife and daughters, who helped him piece together thoughts and memories that evade him due to Alzheimer's disease.

September 14, 2022
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  • Kristen Martin

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NPR's Nina Totenberg offers a window into her world in 'Dinners with Ruth'

The reporter's memoir takes readers on a jaunt through her captivating life and career, nose for the jugular, forthrightness about her joys and sorrows — and the history of women in the workplace.

September 13, 2022
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  • Martha Anne Toll

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'Lessons' finds some familiarity with author Ian McEwan's own life

In this expansive novel, which ranks among McEwan's best work, a man assesses his life's trajectory from childhood to old age, focusing especially on what he considers wrong turns and disappointments.

September 13, 2022
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  • Heller McAlpin

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A Uyghur seeks just a place to sleep in 'The Backstreets'

Perhat Tursun's novel explores human rights abuses against China's Uyghur minority through one man's search for a home. The author himself has been imprisoned and a co-translator has disappeared.

September 13, 2022
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  • Emily Feng

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'If I Survive You' is a sweeping portrait of a family's fight to make it in America

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You is an intensively granular, yet panoramic depiction of what it's like to try to make it — or not — in this kaleidoscopic madhouse of a country.

September 09, 2022
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  • Maureen Corrigan

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5 new YA reads to check out this fall

As autumn's chill creeps in, we look to five new YA releases that will both haunt you and bewitch your heart, including books by the authors of Last Night at the Telegraph Club and The City Beautiful.

September 07, 2022
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  • Caitlyn Paxson

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  • Book Reviews

'Surveillance State' explores China's tech and social media control systems

Veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Josh Chin and Liza Lin spent years covering China. In a new book, they untangle how China built its formidable digital surveillance apparatus.

September 07, 2022
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  • Emily Feng

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At 10th anniversary of Benghazi attack, former diplomat offers context in new book

Ethan Chorin, who served in Libya, presents details that most Americans don't know about the embassy attack — and explores the role domestic politics played in the aftermath.

September 06, 2022
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  • Caitlyn Kim

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'I'm Not Broken' is about being broken — and building a new life

A sad, brutally honest memoir about "a poor, sexually abused, drug-addicted Chicano kid," Jesse Leon's narrative is one that vividly brings to the page the realities of someone ignored by the system.

August 31, 2022
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  • Gabino Iglesias
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