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- Sep 11, 2026
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The L.A. Novelist Who Doesn’t Get Her Due (opens the original)
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Jackie Collins, who wrote flashy, sex-filled Hollywood thrillers, isn’t often thought of as a canonical Los Angeles novelist. I didn’t regard her as one, at least—until I read Sophie Gilbert’s essay about Collins, the latest entry in The Atlantic’s series “The Writer’s Way.” Collins wrote shiny 1980s “bonkbusters,” as one critic called them; in her novels, including her breakthrough, Ho
What Tech Titans Don’t Understand About Sci-Fi (opens the original)
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. When I read Thomas More’s Utopia in college, the main thing I retained was that the inhabitants of More’s imaginary island worked just six hours a day and earned what we might now call a universal basic income. But the fact that I came away from this 16th-century classic with only visions of a shorter workday and a generous allowance says more about my undergraduate habits than it does
Kafka’s Most Entertaining Stories (opens the original)
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In biological science, anthropomorphism is best avoided; nonhuman organisms should be studied on their own terms, without human qualities projected onto them. But that rule goes out the window in fiction—especially the kind in which animals are the main characters. As a child, the writer Rachel Vorona Cote was captivated by novels told from the perspective of chatty puppies and noble ho
A Pulitzer Winner Who Keeps Pushing Himself (opens the original)
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Many novelists—including some great ones—circle one subject and style for much of their career. Colson Whitehead isn’t among them. He has written a zombie novel, a fantastical escape-from-slavery narrative, a supernatural elevator-inspector thriller, and, most recently, a trilogy of heist capers that concludes with Cool Machine, which comes out on Tuesday. The critic David Hajdu, in a n
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