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Nino Cipri's magical multiworld adventure is set in a Swedish big box furniture store — no, not that one — where the showroom floor is prone to interdimensional wormholes that swallow shoppers.
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A Devastating (and Darkly Hilarious) New Novel From the ‘Westworld’ Writer Charles Yu
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'Strung Out' Tackles Pain, Stigma And Shame Of Drug Use
Erin Khar's son, at 12, asked her if she'd ever used drugs; this book is her answer: "When we write the truth, when we write about our experiences, we reflect back what it means to be a human being."
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Dystopian Novel 'The Resisters' Drives Home The Perils Of Our Wired World
Gish Jen weaves baseball into her inspired vision of how Americans bought into the fantasy of less stress and more free time. As speculative fiction goes, The Resisters hits close to the bone.
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'The Hidden Girl' Is Smart, But Not Entirely Human
Ken Liu is an acclaimed author, translator and poet who's won multiple awards for his short fiction. But his new collection doesn't come together — some stories are gorgeous, while others fall flat.
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Think You Know George Washington?
Alexis Coe’s biography gives a fresh perspective on a much-mythologized man.
For Lily King, a Great Book Always Starts With the Sentences
“You can’t make a good spaghetti sauce with rotten tomatoes.”
In 'Minor Feelings,' Asian American Racial Trauma Is Laid Bare
Cathy Park Hong's essays serve as a major reckoning, pulling no punches as the author uses her life's flashpoints to give voice to a wider Asian American experience, one with cascading consequences.
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'Apartment' Will Stay With You, Long After You Shut The Door
Teddy Wayne's new novel is a portrait of loneliness and male insecurity set against the backdrop of academia in the mid-1990s — and a precious, rent-stabilized apartment in Manhattan.
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She Took Her First Pill at 8. By 13, She Was an Addict.
Erin Khar’s memoir, “Strung Out,” brings a new lens to the opioid crisis.
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