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BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE, by Trent Dalton. (HarperPerennial, 464 pp., $16.99.) A mysterious voice on the red phone in his family’s secret escape room adds a dose of magical realism to the Australian journalist Dalton’s debut novel — a mix…
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Indeed, the medical community appears not much closer today to finding a “cure” for schizophrenia, if such a thing exists. But Kolker argues that’s the wrong ship to wait for. More promising developments emerge in early detection, and in…
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Readers who are used to spending their weekends in bookstores or libraries may be experiencing literary withdrawal. Many of these spaces have closed to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.But there are still ways to keep a rotation of…
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RADICAL UNCERTAINTY Decision-Making Beyond the NumbersBy John Kay and Mervyn King384 pp. Norton. $30.The way experts understand uncertainty is fundamentally and unhappily disconnected from the way normal people do. The good news is that…
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SHAKESPEARE IN A DIVIDED AMERICA: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future, by James Shapiro. (Penguin Press, $27.) Shapiro has long created Shakespeare treats for the common reader, but this time he outdoes himself. From John…
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LONDON — For the second year running, five of the six shortlisted novels for the International Booker Prize are by women. The contenders for the award, arguably the most significant prize for literature translated into English, were…
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MY DARK DEBUT Kate Elizabeth Russell worked on her first novel for 18 years — through high school, college, a master’s program, while earning a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Kansas and beyond. It took “about five…
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COOL TOWNHow Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American CultureBy Grace Elizabeth HaleThere was a time when Athens, Ga., a sleepy Southern college town, was known mostly for the passionate sis-boom-bah of University…
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Do you distinguish between “commercial” and “literary” fiction? Where’s that line, for you?I prefer commercial fiction because it usually lacks angst-filled navel gazing.How do you organize your books?This question made me laugh. Nothing…
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Photography and the mythos of the American cowboy have been lassoed together almost from birth. Even when they weren’t working hand in hand, they were often in close company. The most famous showdown in the Old West, the gunfight at the…
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