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Review: 'Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me'
NONFICTION: The biographer of two of the 20th century's most famous authors shares what it was like to know them.
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Review: 'Right After the Weather,' by Carol Anshaw
FICTION: Carol Anshaw's latest novel examines the reverberations of trauma and the dissonance of being a reluctant hero.
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Review: 'The Great Pretender,' by Susannah Cahalan
NONFICTION: A thrilling and lively work of investigative journalism unmasks a 1970s study that fundamentally changed the discipline of psychiatry.
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Review: 'Mud and Stars,' by Sara Wheeler
NONFICTION: In search of Russian literary greats and the landscape that influenced them.
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Review: 'Nothing More Dangerous,' by Allen Eskens
FICTION: Friendship and racism are explored in this novel set in 1970s Missouri.
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Poetry reviews: Ethna McKiernan, Su Hwang, Su Smallen Love, Raych Jackson and Billy-Ray Belcourt
POETRY: These five collections with Minnesota connections thrum with heart and wisdom.
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Writer Lindy West tackles everything from abortion to Donald Trump
Fierce and funny writer Lindy West fights misogyny in the media, arguing that bad pop culture breeds bad politics.
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Review: 'The Witches Are Coming,' by Lindy West
NONFICTION: In these funny, pointed essays, the author warns that a cultural reckoning is coming.
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Review: 'Nothing to See Here,' by Kevin Wilson
FICTION: Children catch fire and their dad tries to keep them hidden in this insightful novel.
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Review: 'The Starless Sea,' by Erin Morgenstern
FICTION: An old book leads a grad student on an epic quest to a vast underground library.
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Review: 'In the Dream House,' by Carmen Maria Machado
NONFICTION: In her second book, Carmen Maria Machado powerfully documents her two years in an abusive relationship.
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Review: 'Edison,' by Edmund Morris
Nonfiction: Beginning at the end of his life and ending at the beginning, "Edison" is a structurally inventive biography.
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