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'The Take' and 'The Left and the Lucky' explore peculiar friendships across age
Two new novels center vital, but unusual connections across age. In The Take, an aspiring writer named Maggie agrees to an outlandish deal with Ingri…
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Mikhail Zygar says the Soviet Union’s collapse was only a temporary win for democracy
Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are reshaping global politics. In The Dark Side of the Earth, exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar traces t…
2 months, 1 week ago
In 'Yesteryear,' a tradwife influencer wakes up in the time period she’s fetishized
Natalie Heller Mills is a tradwife influencer with 5 million followers. She drinks raw milk, eats farm fresh eggs, and is “perfect at being alive.” B…
2 months, 1 week ago
'Infinity Machine' is a biography of an Oppenheimer-like figure in AI
Demis Hassabis says when he set up an AI lab in 2010, “no one believed in it.” The Google DeepMind co-founder and Nobel Prize winner is the subject o…
2 months, 1 week ago
In Maria Semple’s 'Go Gentle,' a surprise love interest upends a Stoic life
In Maria Semple’s new novel, Adora Hazzard works as a moral trainer to the tweens of a wealthy family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She’s a co…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ada Limón talks forgiveness, ghosts and fertility on 'Wild Card'
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. In 2024, then U.S. Poet Laureate Ada …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Healing through poetry in 'Light For The World To See'
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. In 2020, Kwame Alexander was feeling …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of 'deaf gain' instead of hearing loss
When poet Raymond Antrobus was 6 years old, he learned he was deaf. His new memoir The Quiet Ear describes living in a world of in-betweenness, strad…
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In 'Poet Warrior', Joy Harjo uses poetry to deal with pain and heal
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. Joy Harjo, who was the U.S. poet laur…
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Poet Ocean Vuong shares his grief in 'Time Is A Mother'
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. Ocean Vuong's collection, Time Is A M…
2 months, 2 weeks ago