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James Comey and Truth in Government
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen James Comey’s “Saving Justice” arrives three years after his first ebook, “A Higher Loyalty.” Joe…
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The Essential Octavia Butler
DAWN is the core of the sequence, setting the stage for the Oankali’s protracted and perverse colonization. Many critics learn the Oankali as benevolent saviors…
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What Is a Home? In ‘Aftershocks,’ the Answer Is Not So Clear
AFTERSHOCKSBy Nadia Owusu Where are you from? If somebody had been to ask, you would possibly cite your present ZIP code or share the place…
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New in Paperback: ‘Amnesty’ and ‘Cool Town’
Six new paperbacks to take a look at this week. Source link
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Punctuated Poetry and Other Letters to the Editor
Exclamation Point To the Editor: Too dangerous W. S. Merwin isn’t round to take the different aspect concerning Elisa Gabbert’s effusive reward of “punctuation as…
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Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 82; Anthropologist on Lives of Women
Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the writer of quietly groundbreaking books on women’s lives — and who as the one little one…
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Poem: Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop
The remix, the allusion, the pulling one thing from the previous, even when it doesn’t really feel as if it’s your previous, and making one…
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For Comfort Reading, Susan Minot Turns to Comic Writers
As far as consolation is anxious, I do know I’ll at all times discover the pleasure of laughter after I learn David Sedaris. As a…
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How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult
After the occasions of final week, one has to wonder if Josh Hawley — for all of his prep college polish and Ivy League levels…
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In ‘Aftershocks,’ a Search for Home in a Life Around the World
In Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon,” the character Pilate Dead is lacking a navel, making her an object of each suspicion and awe. She was,…
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8 takeaways from ‘The Cousins’ discussion with author Karen M. McManus
Cathryn Haight January 12, 2021 | 3:58 PM On Thursday, the Boston.com Book Club gathered nearly for a reside streamed discussion with bestselling author Karen…
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Sally Rooney to Publish ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’
Somewhat over two years in the past, the novelist Sally Rooney appeared poised to take a well-earned victory lap. At 27, she had printed two…
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New & Noteworthy, From ‘Faust’ to Life in Lockdown
Recent titles of curiosity: HOMO IRREALIS: Essays, by André Aciman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) In this assortment, the creator of “Call Me by Your…
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Stories of Everyday Strangeness, in the Midwest and Beyond
LIFE AMONG THE TERRANAUTSBy Caitlin Horrocks Wouldn’t life be less complicated if we might simply slumber via it? In “The Sleep,” the opening story of…
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Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document?
In making their case that the Constitution favored freedom over slavery, the antislavery Northerners interpreted and parsed each a part of it as imaginatively as…
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The Joys of Approaching Life as an Amateur
BEGINNERSThe Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong LearningBy Tom Vanderbilt Early in his new e book, “Beginners,” the journalist Tom Vanderbilt finds himself unexpectedly adopting…
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A Bereaved Daughter Delves Into Her Mother’s Secrets
Cowan comes to grasp why her mom discovered it troublesome to bond; her childhood all however assured it. Established within the 18th century as a…
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How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Imprisonment Changed American Politics Forever
NINE DAYS The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 ElectionBy Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick The African-American wrestle for…
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The Perils of Social Distancing
SOCIAL CHEMISTRYDecoding the Patterns of Human ConnectionBy Marissa King Reading Marissa King’s “Social Chemistry” throughout a pandemic is an unsettling expertise. King, who wrote her…
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