Thrilling, Funny, and Sad Tales of Modern Manhood
Danny McBride wonders: Are the men OK?
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contemporary fiction
Amitav Ghosh Writes a Covid Novel Like No one Else
Follow-up to ‘Gun Island,’ ‘Ghost-Eye’ takes us from Brooklyn to Calcutta and back in time
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The Unforgettable Women of ‘Men Like Ours’
The Cut’s Bindu Bansinath pens a suburban thriller about solidarity
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In ‘Transcription,’ Ben Lerner Breaks the Spell of His Mother’s Voice
Anyone lucky enough to have read Ben Lerner’s explosive trilogy of first-person novels that straddle the border between fiction and memoir might get the sense that Lerner, though 47, is still a bit of a mama’s boy. These three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), 10:04 (2014) and The Topeka School (2019) all have male protagonists that are Lerner and yet are not. They love art, language, and poetry, but
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Paul Theroux Is ‘Crazy for You’ in Graphic Detail
Steve Lafler’s art dramatically alters the presentation of the story
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‘The Emergency’ Can’t Outrun Its Own Allegory
George Packer’s new novel aims for Orwell and Huxley but that’s a high bar
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