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Bijou Karman The Irony of Modern Feminism’s Obsession With Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A new biography squares the decorous legal figure with the feminist gladiator.
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Hanna Barczyk Sam Lipsyte’s Lame Send-up of a Guru and His Acolytes
In Hark, the characters are distracted, and their author veers between satire and sincerity.
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FSG Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers
Chris Power’s debut collection, Mothers, reveals that maternity is an unsettling journey.
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Ian Wright; photo by David Harrison; courtesy of ... The Haunting Last Letters of Sylvia Plath
As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers.
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Graywolf Everything Under Is a Dark and Mesmerizing Story About Fate
The 27-year-old author, Daisy Johnson, pulls off several marvels at once in her debut novel, which made the Man Booker Prize shortlist.
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Arsh Raziuddin The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass
His champions now span the ideological spectrum, but left and right miss the tensions in his views.
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Xia Gordon The Personal Cost of Black Success
Two new memoirs trace their authors’ rise into the meritocratic elite, confronting pernicious myths and brutal realities along the way.
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Catapult A Literary Companion for Insomniacs
Marina Benjamin’s new memoir aims to soothe the sleepless.
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Beth Hoeckel Women Are Furious. Now What?
In her new book, Rebecca Traister invokes rage to unify women in a battle against men. But being mad can prove divisive, too.
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Jake Foreman How to Live Better, According to Nietzsche
John Kaag’s fascinating new book about the German thinker seeks to tether philosophy back to the mess of daily experience.
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The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Casts an Unlikely Spell
Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.
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Lucille Clerc The Brilliant, Playful, Bloodthirsty Raven
A new book from Christopher Skaife is a beguiling, fascinating, and highly amusing account of the strangely magical birds.
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Marc Burckhardt The Lie of Little Women
Peering into the secrets of Louisa May Alcott’s real life sheds light on her treasured coming-of-age tale.
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Misha Vyrtsev Who Gets to Claim Kafka?
A court battle between German and Israeli archives over his manuscripts raised literary, not just legal, questions.
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Hogarth Sight Is an Unusual Meditation on Motherhood That’s Hard to Put Down
Jessie Greengrass’s debut novel about an unnamed pregnant woman blends ruminative prose with historical insight.
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Katie Martin How Lolita Seduces Us All
A new book about a terrible crime sheds light on the novel’s enduring allure.
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Lily Padula Giants of the Deep
How technology has changed the way we look at whales—and ourselves
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Mayuko Fujino The Weird, Ever-Evolving Story of DNA
Carl Zimmer’s sprawling new book, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, forces readers to reconsider what they think they know about genetics and heredity.
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Graywolf Mirror, Shoulder, Signal and the Struggle of Changing Gears
Dorthe Nors’s newest novel, about a 40-something woman in Copenhagen learning to drive for the first time, is more profound than its premise suggests.
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Jonathan Bartlett How Not to Scout for Soccer Talent
Two new books raise interesting questions about the ethics and effectiveness of the sport’s selection system, with its early and intense winnowing process for aspiring players.
