“Let’s complain,” suggests Lucy Ellmann in the preface to this new collection of essays, her first book of nonfiction. In lieu of a Table of Contents, a ‘Table of Discontents’ catalogues…
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If the wheel was invented over 5,000 years ago, why wasn’t it applied to luggage until the 1970s? asks Katrine Marçal in this thought-provoking book, seamlessly translated by Alex Fleming. A…
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“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own” (John 15:19) reads the epigraph of Brandon Taylor’s first short-story collection. Lionel, the central character of the…
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As Covid-19 and its attendant fears spread during the spring of 2020, Britain was enveloped in a silence unprecedented since the Industrial Revolution, writes Steven Lovatt in this charming and thought-provoking…
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Damon Galgut’s electrifying new novel tracks the travails of the Swart family—“just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans”—over the span of three decades. The story opens in 1986 with Rachel,…
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In this eloquent essay collection, Molly McCully Brown offers an account of life with a disability. Born prematurely with an identical twin who died soon after birth, Brown has cerebral palsy,…