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BOOMTOWN GIRLThe town’s mutation into a bustling commercial hub is mirrored in the stories, and with each mushrooming multiplex (“Boomtown Girl”), new film...
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YOUNG GLOBAL CHANGEMAKERS FOR A FEMINIST FUTUREAs the holder of a doctorate in religious studies and the author of more than a dozen sociological and self-help texts, Kimball set out to...
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LIFE AND OTHER LOVE SONGSIn her sophomore novel, following The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls (2019), Gray again braids the narrative perspectives of...
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LOSING MUSICIn an affecting debut memoir, novelist and essayist Cotter recounts the health crisis that transformed his sense of self and connection to his...
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BLACK GIRLS MUST HAVE IT ALLIt’s been three weeks since Tabitha welcomed little Tabitha Evelyn Walker Brown into the world, and motherhood is fixing to be her most daunting...
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BIG TROUBLE ON SULLIVAN'S ISLANDBoyer, the author of the Liz Talbot mysteries, launches a new stand-alone series with this novel featuring likable Southern private investigator...
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THE POINT OF NO RETURN“The Trump era is not over yet—forewarned is forearmed.” So writes Edsall in this collection of opinion pieces from the New York Times ,...
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WHERE TO STARTThis offering from a major U.S. mental health nonprofit offers teens an overview of psychological concerns, explains what can be done to address...
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VENISS UNDERGROUNDToday VanderMeer is celebrated for twisting and stretching the familiar tropes of science fiction in taffylike ways and at epic scale, most...
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THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLES IGNATIUS SANCHOAuthor Joseph, who wrote and starred in the 2018 play Sancho: An Act of Remembrance , researched Charles Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) for...
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MIDLIFE EMERGENCEAt age 41, the author led a life that seemed nearly perfect. She had a successful psychotherapy practice; a loving husband, Craig, who had a...
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I SWEARSince her election to the House of Representatives in 2018, Porter has established a reputation as a no-nonsense single mother fighting on...
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IAN'S SHOW AND TELL SURPRISEIan is excited about a new school year, but his classmates have trouble understanding why he does things differently. Ian ends up mostly playing...
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SWEET UNDOINGSFrom the earliest pages of Lahens’ novel, there’s a profound sense of absence. It opens with a letter written by Raymond Berthier, a judge in...
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THE RECALL PARADOXPicking up the action where The Memory Index (2022) left off and driving on with minimal recapping, Vaca sends his multiethnic group of four...
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HOW DO YOU SPELL UNFAIR?MacNolia Cox was neither the first African American child to win a national spelling contest (1908) nor the next (2021)—but she was the first...
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SOCCER QUEENSIn his afterword, Smith records efforts to make each of these poems suit its subject’s strengths or distinctive style of play, but whether the...
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AN ORDINARY MANHanded the helm of the floundering national ship at the climax of the Watergate crisis, Gerald Ford (1913-2006) managed to quiet the storm due...
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CONTENDERSProperly rejecting the conventional sobriquets (both were often referred to as “Chief” in newspapers despite not being tribal leaders) as...
