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Alexandra Kleeman sets her neo-noir novel in a burning Hollywood
Bradley Babendir
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Bradley Babendir is a freelance writer living in Boston. He has written for The Washington Post, The Nation, The New Republic, and elsewhere.
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Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell explain, better than anyone else, how the real estate…
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What did the internet used to be like? I’m not sure I remember. The conventional wisdom is that, even six or seven…
A certain amount of escapism through books would have been more than understandable in 2020. (And by “a certain…
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Many novels begin with death, the threat of it, or its consequences. Perhaps the best and most famous example is…
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In the opening story of Rion Amilcar Scott’s second collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, the literal children…
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In Sally Rooney’s Normal People, the follow-up to her excellent and very popular debut novel, Conversations With…
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Marlon James announced his intention to write a sprawling fantasy trilogy shortly after his previous novel, 2014’s A…
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The unnamed narrator of Haruki Murakami’s new novel, Killing Commendatore, is a recently divorced painter. He…