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- Sep 24, 2026
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Book Review | ‘Exit Party’ by Emily St. John Mandel (opens the original)
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Emily St. John Mandel is one of those increasingly uncommon writers whose work appeals both to a popular and a literary audience. She’s a dab hand at world-building, as readers of her runaway best-seller Station Eleven can attest, and there’s always plenty of action and intrigue in her plots. Yet she’s equally careful about crafting her sentences and developing believable, three-dimensional characters. I, for one, get caught up in her novels in a way that rarely happens when I’m reading other bo
Review | ‘Almost Grown: A New York Memoir’ by Jesse Malin (opens the original)
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As someone who has been listening to rock and roll radio almost as long as he was old enough to switch it on, and who spent his teenage years, not unlike the author of this book, hanging out with punk rockers trying to start bands, I must admit I feel a bit ashamed that Jesse Malin’s name was only vaguely familiar to me before I read Almost Grown: A New York Memoir. I suspect a big reason for my ignorance can be found in the book’s subtitle. Aside from Malin himself, New York is the central char
Book Review | ‘Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old’ by Mary Beard (opens the original)
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If you thought the Greek and Roman classics were stuffy but serious and timeless guides to the Good, the Beautiful, and the Wise, Mary Beard is here to tell you that you’re wrong: “Debate, disagreement, and questioning are what classics have to offer, not certainty, truth, beauty or relevance in the way that people often imagine.” In Talking Classics, the Cambridge University professor emerita, BBC television presenter, and author of the bestselling SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, has yet anoth
Book Review | ‘Python’s Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich’ (opens the original)
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Louise Erdrich occupies one of those rare and coveted positions among contemporary authors: Like Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Franzen, the late Hilary Mantel, and others, she is both a literary lion and a commercial success. In its opening stories, her new collection, Python’s Kiss, treads the precarious path between those two pillars of achievement in fiction quite ably. The title story focuses on the narrator’s relationship with animals — an out-of-control guard dog named Nero, his
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