Nine Books on Immigration
From the politics of imprisonment to the wonders and tragedies of being forced to leave home
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memoir
Do You Have the ‘Will and Attention’ To Escape the Bottle?
Meghan O’Gieblyn’s new memoir faces up to faith, addiction, and techno-skepticism armed mainly with a spiritual World War II philosopher
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Readers’ 14: October Books We’re Excited To Read
Barbara Kingsolver returns, Chad Harbach finally publishes his long-awaited second novel, Michael Lewis investigates DOGE, Bonnie Garmus heads to 1980s publishing, Adam Grant explores loneliness and more
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Does Living Longest Make You ‘The Oldest Person in the World’?
Sam Green’s moving decade-long doc goes beyond supercentenarians to become something far richer than a study of longevity
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Witnessing North Korea
Two new books offer firsthand explanations for how we got to this point
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Michael Cunningham Writes the ‘Unsayable’
The Pulitzer winner for ‘The Hours’ looks back on a life of authorship
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The Cruelty of Nice Minnesota Folks
Justin Ellis explains why Minneapolis was America’s raw racial nerve
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Kevin James Thornton Is Not Just a ‘Big Baby’
Can the comedian’s viral autotune videos make the jump to full-length memoir?
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Hell: A Guided Tour
Virginia Roberts Guiffre’s harrowing memoir describes the sleazy, brutal underworld of sex trafficking and the vicious predators who reigned there
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Mark Lanegan’s Beautifully Sad Memoir of Drugs and Despair
Screaming Trees vocalist sings a powerful story
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