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In previous memoirs like The Chelsea Whistle and How To Grow Up, Michelle Tea brilliantly captured the seething…
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Something about this year made reading books feel not just crucial, but a little bit transgressive. Maybe it’s the…
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Flâneuse is a book about a woman walking through cities. But it is also about reading and writing, seeing and being…
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Hag-Seed is the latest offering from Hogarth Shakespeare, a series that takes Ben Jonson’s quote “He was not of an…
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The title Nutshell comes from Hamlet: “Oh, God, I could be bound in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite…
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Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl is a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew, the latest in the Hogarth…
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Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, LaRose, begins with tragedy: Landreaux Iron, an Ojibwe man, is carefully stalking a…
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Readers who are familiar—very familiar—with Emily Dickinson will find much to ponder in Jerome Charyn’s A Loaded…
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My Name Is Lucy Barton begins by looking back: “There was a time, and it was many years ago now, when I had to stay…
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Who wants to read a book that examines someone’s belly button lint? If it’s Michael Ian Black’s—whether or not…
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When you put “Unzipped” in a title, you promise something sexy, something not often seen, something that could be…
After a stellar year for the written word, The A.V. Club provides some of our favorite books for your consideration…
The movie Victor Frankenstein opens with the line “You know the story.” But do you? Mary Shelley’s novel has been…
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On the back cover of Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong is a tweet by Joyce Carol Oates, riffing on Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl:
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I read Fates And Furies in a day. I meant to read maybe a chapter or two, but I read all the way though until nearly…
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The very first page of Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy acknowledges a reader’s potential uncertainty and sets the tone…
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I knew the myth about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece, but I didn’t know anything…
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Sarah Manguso’s new book Ongoingness: The End Of A Diary is both about and not about a lot of things: birth,…