For the Love of K-Pop
Writer Giaae Kwon chronicles a life’s obsession with the world’s most popular music genre
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NON-FICTION
In ‘Sucker Punch,’ Scaachi Koul Reveals Too Much, and Also Not Enough
True self-reflection is hard when you’re extremely online
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‘Talk To Me’: No Substitute For the Lack of a Mother’s Love
In an incredibly moving memoir, writer Rich Benjamin struggles to come to terms with the lack of affection he received from a social-justice-obsessed family
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Neko Case and the Art of Soft Rebellion
An affecting but tough memoir from an icon of Gen-X indie music
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Ambrose Bierce, Muckraker
A Seattle publisher issues a new series of the iconoclast’s collected nonfiction, with all its merciless exposure of fraud and abuse
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2024: The Year In Censorship
From the right and left, everyone’s trying to ban books and cancel author events
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‘Gambling Man’: Masayoshi Son’s Wild Ride
Book about SoftBank CEO will please admirers and give ammo to critics
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‘The Name Of This Band Is R.E.M.’ Gives Fans Most of What They Want
Biography is comprehensive, but not quite life’s rich pageant
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The Fulfilling Life of Steve Wasserman
Editor and book critic’s collection of essays is a remarkable model of staying mentally young and intellectually curious
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The Ruins of Booktopia
Australian booksellers draw lessons from an online behemoth’s crash as the rivalry with Amazon intensifies
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Inside the Neurotic Mind Of Bruce Eric Kaplan
‘They Went Another Way’, a memoir of doing housework and waiting for a deal in Hollywood
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‘The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon’
An engaging biography that’s overly concerned with protecting a former First Lady’s reputation
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Sylvia Plath, Reclaimed
Biographer Emily Van Duyne mixes new Plath scholarship with raw, stunning self-confession
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Cosmo Kramer Unmasked
Eighteen years after his Laugh Factory cancellation, Michael Richards tells all. But is anyone listening?
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Book Review: Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Madhumita Murgia’s extraordinary book explores the potential for innovation, as well as dehumanization, in artificial intelligence
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