Blurred Lines: An Essayist’s Dispatches on Slippery States of Being
In “Thin Places,” the bisexual half-Mexican former Christian writer Jordan Kisner offers 13 views of the “in between.”
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Fighting to Save Their Tribe From Termination
In her new novel, “The Night Watchman,” Louise Erdrich brings to light a political battle from the 1950s that still reverberates today.
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Wrestling With Prejudice in Three Debut Novels
Dennis Staples’s “This Town Sleeps,” Celia Laskey’s “Under the Rainbow” and Nana Oforiatta Ayim’s “The God Child” feature outsiders in unwelcome territory.
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Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill
Struggling to pay off her student loans, Eliese Colette Goldbach applied for a job as a steelworker. Her memoir, “Rust,” explores her “complicated love” for the mill that hired her.
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Katie Roiphe Puts Her Romantic History Under a Microscope
In “The Power Notebooks,” the author known for her polemical feminism examines her relationships with men, exposing the ways in which she’s ceded power as often as taken it.
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Before You Spit in That Vial, Read This Book
In “The Lost Family,” Libby Copeland considers the ramifications of consumer genetic testing.
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Don’t Mind Me While I Wear My Dog
In “Separation Anxiety,” Laura Zigman introduces a novel approach to midlife ennui.
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In ‘Barn 8,’ a Plot to Steal a Million Chickens
In Deb Olin Unferth’s latest novel, a Brooklyn teenager finds herself in unfamiliar territory: an Iowa egg farm.
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Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive?
A new biography of the Catholic activist, by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph, examines her wholehearted commitment to radical politics and religion.
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Frida Kahlo in ‘Gringolandia’
In the early 1930s, Kahlo visited San Francisco, New York and Detroit. “Frida in America,” by Celia Stahr, explores how the trip transformed the artist and her work.
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