Maureen Corrigan on Michelle Dean’s Sharp
Michelle Dean’s Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion is the book many of us have been waiting for. It…
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New York Times Review: Disasters In the First World
The best of the 13 stories in Olivia Clare’s debut collection flout convention and work in mysterious ways. Two in particular — “Pétur” and…
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Why are we still so obsessed with Lizzie Borden?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY GRADE: A- Whether Lizzie Borden ever really took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks, then turned and gave her father…
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New York Times Raves About Lights On, Rats Out
An Odyssey Through Self-Harm and Out the Other Side Memoir writers, not unlike Blanche DuBois, depend upon the kindness of strangers. Although such writers…
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The Daily Beast Review: Hue 1968
A recently published book by Boston University historian Cathal Nolan, The Allure of Battle, argues that strategists, generals, and military historians have long placed…
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New York Times Review: The Retreat of Western Liberalism
In ‘The Retreat of Western Liberalism,’ How Democracy Is Defeating Itself In his insightful and harrowing new book, Edward Luce, a columnist for The…
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How the Hell Did This Happen? – PJ O’Rourke on Trump’s Election
It’s not just politicians who are getting older; satirists are, too. Near the end of this book PJ O’Rourke lets slip the startling revelation…
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The Guardian Review: Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea
This collection has an extraordinary origin story. Bandi, meaning “firefly”, is the pseudonym for a North Korean who has worked, and might still work, as part of the nation’s…
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NY Times Review: A Dissident Book Smuggled From North Korea Finds a Global Audience
SEOUL, South Korea — It was a dog-eared manuscript, 743 pages bound in string. But for Do Hee-youn, an activist campaigning for human rights…
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Quartz Review: The First Known Fiction Out of North Korea is a Dystopian Thriller
A rare piece of fiction from one of the world’s most repressive regimes reaches English speakers for the first time this week. The Accusation is…
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