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Helen Oyeyemi’s Novel of Cognitive Dissonance
Few fantasies are harder to wipe away than the romance of a clean slate. Every January, when we’re twitchy with regret and self-loathing,…
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‘Bad Bunny by Stillz’ Captures Six Years of Portraits of the Puerto Rican Artist
Everyone loves a Polaroid picture, the immediacy and materiality of it seeming to convey more feeling—and more of a sense of the real—than…
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How Aisha Muharrar Managed to Write a Fun Novel About Grief
How did the seed of Julia, Gabe, and Elizabeth’s story come to you? I was in New York, in a cab with my friend leaving a party, and during…
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Why Hasn’t Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches?
Two decades ago, I was leaving my morning clinic at the hospital where I work when I suddenly felt an excruciating pain in my head. It was…
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How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility
The American poet James Schuyler composed his first significant poem during a nine-week stay at the Payne Whitney Westchester psychiatric…
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iFast books S$50.3 million net institutional inflow in five sessions
Over the five trading sessions from Jul 25 to 31, institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks. The net institutional outflow of…
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Okay, I’ve Figured Out the Plot of Carrie Bradshaw’s Novel
Oh, so she went to visit her lover by train—which would have been fun, considering trains had only been around New York for a couple of…
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In Her New Graphic Novel, ‘Simplicity,’ Mattie Lubchansky Explores the Dark Side of Communal Living (and So Much More)
Mattie Lubchansky has written and illustrated several graphic novels, including 2023’s riveting Boys Weekend, but her latest, Simplicity,…
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Missing ‘Love Island’? Consider Cracking Open ‘The Compound’
“One of the things that interested me about the show was the gender politics and how the contestants performed within their gender roles,”…
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The 31 Best Book Club Books for Your Next Group Read
There’s a story my book club tells about our genesis. One of us wanted to read a certain steamy novel that had crossed over into the…
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What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap
His reluctance to treat family structure as a causal factor is similarly puzzling. He notes that married Black households have an average…
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What Actually Happens in the Second ‘Devil Wears Prada’ Book? We’re So Glad You Asked
Before we begin, a disclaimer: My tolerance for trashy literature is quite high. I love an airport novel—the frothier the better—and my…
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The Semi-Fictional Book That Transformed the Culinary World
It was early in 1985, during the first warm, blossoming weeks of spring in San Francisco, when I became hellbent on getting my old job…
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With Her New Book, ‘Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar,’ Katie Yee Slyly Updates the Divorce Novel
In Katie Yee’s debut novel, Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar, the titular Maggie is two things at once: the white woman Yee’s…
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Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate
The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and the U.S., and fatally high…
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“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man
Clint Eastwood is as impersonal a personal filmmaker as modern Hollywood has to offer. What makes his movies personal is more their ideas,…
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The First Time America Went Beard Crazy
A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of…
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Joseph Lee's 'Nothing More of This Land' is a Stunning Portrait of Aquinnah Wampanoag Identity
While Martha’s Vineyard is perhaps best known as a vacation spot that draws the well-to-do likes of Seth Meyers and the Obamas to its…
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Julius Baer seeks to cut bonuses of bankers with risky books: sources
The move comes as the Swiss lender’s top management seek to reset and put the bank on a path for growth after a string of missteps Julius…
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The Lesson in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko Novels
What are these reading projects we set for ourselves? Acts of recompense? One began for me when an advance copy of Martin Cruz Smith’s…
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A Memoir of Working-Class Britain Wrings Playfulness from Pain
The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something…
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A Quietly Subversive Novel About Renewal on the Italian Riviera
Recognizing oneself as one really is and not as one appears to others is the major theme of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work. Von Arnim, an…
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10 Plus Size Romance Books for Your Next Read | TCF
Finding the free time to read a new book can be difficult, especially when none of the main characters feel like you. However, when it…
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Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch
Out of interest, could this be the best beginning to the sixth chapter of any book, by anyone, ever? The girl with the stringy blond hair…