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A Slowed-Down Kind of Loving
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The Folly and the Forgery
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Between Potatoes and Barley
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The Art of Copying
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A Chorus of Lovers
Keetje Kuipers on her new book of poetry, which explores motherhood, sex, and the body.
Lord Knows What I Am
What we can learn from the published correspondence of literary critic and academic titan Harold Bloom.
I Am Not the Same as Another Mother
Dorothea Lasky’s new poetry collection explores ‘elemental motherhood’ in all its horror and transformativity.
Wild Kingdom
Ryan Huling travels the world to discover how the human and animal kingdoms intersect.
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Emma Cline’s new novel chronicles the final days of a man who never knew himself.
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She Wrote Me a Letter
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The Empire of Information
Roopika Risam’s new book shows how various data regimes, from clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia to today’s biometric databases, shaped human lives.
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Greg Carter’s new book reads the ‘Star Wars’ galaxy through the lens of critical mixed-race studies.
Therapy Used to Be Hot
How desire was exiled out of therapy and out of our lives.
Who’s Afraid of Sylvia Plath?
Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil’s complete collection of Sylvia Plath’s poetry paints a more encompassing portrait of the artist than previous collections could.
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