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"Book Review"
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aux There’s very little murder in Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered, and that’s okay
By Katie Rife May 28, 2019 | 2:00pm
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aux Live your filthiest life with John Waters’ Mr. Know-It-All
By Katie Rife May 21, 2019 | 3:00pm
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aux Tragedy strikes an immigrant family in the bleak and beautiful The Unpassing
By Kamil Ahsan May 6, 2019 | 6:00pm
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aux This Dr. Seuss biography is not just hagiography
By Rien Fertel May 6, 2019 | 3:00pm
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aux Ted Chiang, the mind behind Arrival, returns with another awe-inducing sci-fi collection
By Adam Morgan May 6, 2019 | 1:00pm
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aux From a Pandora musicologist, Why You Like It sorts music fans into dull stereotypes
By Rien Fertel April 29, 2019 | 1:00pm
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aux Human and inhuman—and bad sex writing—come together in sci-fi head trip Dark Constellations
By Alex McLevy April 15, 2019 | 6:00pm
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aux Class and power share a bed in Sally Rooney’s Normal People
By Bradley Babendir April 15, 2019 | 3:00pm
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aux How To Do Nothing is a rallying cry against the internet’s endless scroll
By Laura Adamczyk April 8, 2019 | 6:00pm
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aux Kurt Cobain’s manager remembers him, fondly, 25 years later
By Josh Modell April 1, 2019 | 6:00pm
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aux An awful crime gets Women Talking in one of the first great novels of the year
By Laura Adamczyk April 1, 2019 | 1:00pm
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aux The personal is political, and vice versa, in Laila Lalami’s engrossing The Other Americans
By Ines Bellina March 25, 2019 | 2:00pm
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aux Bird Box’s Josh Malerman returns with Inspection, a messy and timely coming-of-age thriller
By Randall Colburn March 21, 2019 | 2:45pm
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aux Bryan Washington’s stellar debut, Lot, puts Houston on the map
By Rien Fertel March 18, 2019 | 3:00pm
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aux Famous Men Who Never Lived uses an alternate universe to tell a very real refugee story
By Samantha Nelson March 4, 2019 | 8:00pm
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aux A love for its subject can’t clear the murky waters of The Lady From The Black Lagoon
By Katie Rife March 4, 2019 | 4:00pm
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aux Lost Children Archive’s ambitious structure hinders its painful border story
By Danette Chavez February 11, 2019 | 6:30pm
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aux There’s fun, but few big ideas, in the popcorn sci-fi of City In The Middle Of The Night
By Adam Morgan February 11, 2019 | 4:00pm
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aux A stranger comes to town—and opens a bowling
alley—in Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway
By Samantha Nelson February 4, 2019 | 8:00pm
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aux A tense quest opens Marlon James’ sprawling fantasy series set in a brutal, mythical Africa
By Bradley Babendir February 4, 2019 | 4:00pm
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film Jean-Luc Godard writes his own elegy in The Image Book
By Josh Cabrita January 24, 2019 | 6:00pm
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aux A dopey wellness guru misleads his minions in Sam Lipsyte’s latest satire
By Rien Fertel January 15, 2019 | 4:00pm
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aux Lust breeds monsters in the full-length debut from the author of “Cat Person”
By Ines Bellina January 14, 2019 | 7:00pm
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aux Sex addiction turns tiresome in Adèle, from the author of The Perfect Nanny
By Kamil Ahsan January 14, 2019 | 2:00pm
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aux Hollywood’s Eve captures the “lewd angel” who embodied the soul (and sexuality) of L.A.
By Alex McLevy January 8, 2019 | 2:00pm