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"Book Review"
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film With Mowgli, Andy Serkis brings a marginally darker Jungle Book to Netflix
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 5, 2018 | 9:30pm
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aux The bold and bloody My
Sister, The Serial Killer asks: What does one owe family?
By Hope Wabuke November 19, 2018 | 4:00pm
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film With Green Book, a Farrelly brother is here to make you laugh, cry, and feel better about racism
By A.A. Dowd November 16, 2018 | 4:31pm
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aux Sharon Jones deserves a better biography than the soulless Long Slow Train
By Rien Fertel November 12, 2018 | 8:00pm
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aux Jeff Tweedy shows a lot of himself in his memoir, just not what you’d expect
By David Anthony November 12, 2018 | 4:00pm
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aux Jonathan Lethem’s Trump-era detective novel is too meta for its own good
By Samantha Nelson November 5, 2018 | 4:00pm
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aux The Beastie Boys Book is as freewheeling and funny as their albums
By Clayton Purdom October 29, 2018 | 4:16pm
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aux Like its cursed hero, Stephen King’s Elevation is bizarrely thin
By Ryan Vlastelica October 29, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey Into Guns sets its sights on America’s racist gun problem
By Rien Fertel October 22, 2018 | 1:00pm
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aux A historic fire illuminates an enduring institution in Susan Orlean’s The Library Book
By Samantha Nelson October 15, 2018 | 6:00pm
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aux Murakami’s usual flights
of fancy can’t save the mundane Killing
Commendatore
By Bradley Babendir October 8, 2018 | 7:00pm
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aux Ellie Kemper is as unbreakable as Kimmy Schmidt in her charming new memoir
By Gwen Ihnat October 8, 2018 | 2:20pm
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aux “A little dirty thrill”: The sly, wry danger of Diane Williams’ short fiction
By Laura Adamczyk October 2, 2018 | 5:45pm
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aux Daemon Voices is a master class on writing by Philip Pullman
By Caitlin PenzeyMoog September 17, 2018 | 7:45pm
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aux After soaring for 5 volumes, Knausgaard brings My Struggle in for a rough landing
By Marty Sartini Garner September 17, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux An obscure but enduring science fiction author finally gets his due
By Alex McLevy September 10, 2018 | 6:00pm
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aux A history professor is haunted by a dark past in Walter Mosley’s John Woman
By Zach Brooke September 3, 2018 | 6:00pm
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aux The first biography of Fred Rogers is touching, but treats its subject with kid gloves
By Ryan Vlastelica September 3, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux A “tragi-comic” memoir from comedian Adam Cayton-Holland is mostly tragedy
By Kyle Ryan August 20, 2018 | 6:00pm
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aux In the zombie apocalypse of Ling Ma’s Severance, the real monsters are the living
By Samantha Nelson August 13, 2018 | 6:00pm
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aux Nico Walker’s tough debut fictionalizes his life of war, heroin, and bank robbery
By Rien Fertel August 13, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux The first trans man to box in Madison Square Garden spars with masculinity
By Amanda Goldblatt August 6, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Bad religion and obsessive love light up The Incendiaries
By Caitlin PenzeyMoog July 30, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Parker Posey’s offbeat You’re On An Airplane is the rare celebrity memoir worth reading
By Laura Adamczyk July 23, 2018 | 2:00pm
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aux Legendary critic Michiko Kakutani reviews all the president’s lies in The Death Of Truth
By Rien Fertel July 16, 2018 | 6:00pm