Colson Whitehead Plays It Safe
‘Harlem Shuffle,’ a light crime novel by a literary giant
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Author: Art Edwards
‘The Women of Troy’
In a new novel, author Pat Barker gives voice to the tyrannized female characters of ‘The Iliad’
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The Astros Cheated
An excellent forthcoming book fully reminds us of their deeply evil 2017 duplicity
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Time to Change
In ‘The Happily Ever After’ and ‘Uncanny Valley,’ writers escape from the dowdy world of literary publishing
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Is this the ‘Twilight of Democracy’?
Or will the center hold? Or neither? Or both?
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‘Utopia Avenue’ Rocks Too Softly
David Mitchell’s new novel could use more noise
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Pizza Girl, Lawn Boy, and the Vanishing 20th-Century Novel
Not everything is autofiction
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‘Good Citizens Need Not Fear’
What’s the point of reading fiction set in Ukraine?
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What Would You Pay?
‘The Velvet Rope Economy’
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Does Not Compute
A Review of ‘Zed’ by Joanna Kavenna
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The Sandworm Strikes
How a Secret U.S. Government Plan to Disable Iran’s Nuclear Capability Created the World’s Deadliest Cyberweapon
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The Innocents at Home
Canadian Orphans in the Blue Ice Lagoon
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To Dish or Not to Dish?
‘Parisian Lives,’ a Juicy Memoir by Beckett’s Biographer
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‘Night Boat to Tangier’
Echoes of Joyce in a Lyrical Novel about Seedy Irishmen
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Downstairs Abbey
Alix Nathan’s ‘The Warlow Experiment,’ in Which a Man Chooses to Spend Seven Years Locked in a Basement
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