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ARTS & CULTURE
Your Next Summer Read Is A Novel About Lonely People Grasping For Connections
By Claire Fallon
Catherine Lacey takes on the dystopian world of modern dating.
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The Painful Truth About The Pressures Of Academic Life
By Claire Fallon
Weike Wang's funny, dark novel "Chemistry" explores the unraveling of a desperate grad student.
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'Priestdaddy' Takes On Priesthood, Fatherhood And The Patriarchy
By Claire Fallon
Patricia Lockwood's poem "Rape Joke" went viral in 2013. Her 2017 memoir does not disappoint.
ARTS & CULTURE
In A Bold New Book, Earth Is Left Uninhabitable By War
By Maddie Crum
The story grapples with gender, climate change and our near-future.
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New Novel Captures The Pleasures And Perils Of Female Friendship
By Claire Fallon
"Marlena" is a vivid portrait of a friendship between two teen girls in a troubled community that captures the heartaches of adolescence.
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A Devastating Story Of Friendship And Heartbreak That Definitely Passes The Bechdel Test
By Maddie Crum
Hannah Lillith Assadi’s debut novel is a poetic story about friendship, loss and the fractured ways we assemble an identity.
ARTS & CULTURE
Relive Your College Years With This Thoughtful, Hilarious Novel
By Claire Fallon
"The Idiot" immerses readers in a Harvard student’s thwarted, anxiety-filled freshman year.
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'White Tears' Is The Horror Story 'La La Land' Should Have Become
By Claire Fallon
A ghostly mystery haunts a duo of white music producers who want to save the blues in Hari Kunzru's new novel.
ARTS & CULTURE
Here’s What To Read If You’re Sick Of The Stigma Around Mental Illness
By Maddie Crum
Yiyun Li writes gracefully about her own alienation in a memoir.
ARTS & CULTURE
The One Book You Need To Read To Understand The Plight Of Refugees
By Claire Fallon
In nine psychologically evocative short stories, Viet Thanh Nguyen lays bare the trauma and emotional ambivalence that lie beneath sentimental or heroic tales of refugees.
ARTS & CULTURE
A Marriage Unravels In This Thrilling Domestic Noir
By Maddie Crum
In Katie Kitamura’s "A Separation," a woman goes on a reflective search for her missing husband.
ARTS & CULTURE
The Bottom Line: 'Homesick For Another World' By Ottessa Moshfegh
By Claire Fallon
Ottessa Moshfegh's stories of selfish people doing foul things capture the dark side of human nature.
ARTS & CULTURE
You’ll Want To Read This Scorching Satire Of 'American Values'
By Maddie Crum
The Midwest is a warped fairy tale in our Book of the Week.
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