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Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida’s new novel, The Lovers, follows a middle-aged Vermont woman, recently widowed, as she vacations in the unfamiliar territory of Turkey in an attempt to re-examine her life. Among these new...
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Staff Picks: Alcoholics Anonymous, Hollywood Star Whackers
Clancy Martin. Photograph by David Eulitt. The cover story in this month’s issue of Harper’s: “The Drunk's Club,” by Clancy Martin. An irreverent, harrowing, tough-minded account of Martin’s experience...
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The Book Club
I recently found myself in need of an inexpensive suit that didn’t look like I picked it up at a Salvation Army. Like countless other men in the same position, I headed to J.Crew. As I walked over the...
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Bookish Heroism, and Other News
Before they were stars: the wayward youth of Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, and more. (And it was wayward!) Bookish, a new website created by Penguin, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster, has launched....
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Staff Picks: Fat Ladies, Flowers, and Faraway Lands
From The Paper-Flower Tree by Jacqueline Ayer. The Paper-Flower Tree is a tale from Thailand for children, but I bought it for my adult self last month. A young girl without much to her name encounters...
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Staff Picks: Berger, Brock-Broido, and Beauman
John Berger When asked to describe my literary interests, I used to say that John Berger was the first white man I loved, and also the last. Now he’s dead, but his final book is forthcoming. In May,...
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The Child Thing: An Interview with Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti. Photo: Sylvia Plachy. I met Sheila Heti at her home in the west end of Toronto on January 31, 2018, three months before the publication of her novel Motherhood. Heti opened her front...
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Staff Picks: Museum Heists, Midsixties Teens, and Munchesque Prisoners
Photo: Lucas Marquardt. Ada Limón’s poetry is like staring into a cloudy night sky and searching desperately for any signs of a star. Just when you’re about to give up, you find a single pinprick in...
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Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida’s new novel, The Lovers, follows a middle-aged Vermont woman, recently widowed, as she vacations in the unfamiliar territory of Turkey in an attempt to re-examine her life. Among these new...
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Staff Picks: Alcoholics Anonymous, Hollywood Star Whackers
Clancy Martin. Photograph by David Eulitt. The cover story in this month’s issue of Harper’s: “The Drunk’s Club,” by Clancy Martin. An irreverent, harrowing, tough-minded account of Martin’s experience...
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The Book Club
I recently found myself in need of an inexpensive suit that didn’t look like I picked it up at a Salvation Army. Like countless other men in the same position, I headed to J.Crew. As I walked over the...
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Bookish Heroism, and Other News
Before they were stars: the wayward youth of Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire, and more. (And it was wayward!) Bookish, a new website created by Penguin, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster, has launched....
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Staff Picks: Fat Ladies, Flowers, and Faraway Lands
From The Paper-Flower Tree by Jacqueline Ayer. The Paper-Flower Tree is a tale from Thailand for children, but I bought it for my adult self last month. A young girl without much to her name encounters...
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Staff Picks: Berger, Brock-Broido, and Beauman
John Berger When asked to describe my literary interests, I used to say that John Berger was the first white man I loved, and also the last. Now he’s dead, but his final book is forthcoming. In May,...
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The Child Thing: An Interview with Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti. Photo: Sylvia Plachy. I met Sheila Heti at her home in the west end of Toronto on January 31, 2018, three months before the publication of her novel Motherhood. Heti opened her front...
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Staff Picks: Museum Heists, Midsixties Teens, and Munchesque Prisoners
Photo: Lucas Marquardt. Ada Limón’s poetry is like staring into a cloudy night sky and searching desperately for any signs of a star. Just when you’re about to give up, you find a single pinprick in...
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