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    'The Committed' Remains Uncommitted — And That's Its Strength

    Mar 04, 2021
    Viet Thanh Nguyen's sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer finds our hero a refugee again, this time in Paris, and disillusioned with communism but not ready to embrace capitalism.
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    'Home Is Not A Country' Imagines The Lives We Could Have Led

    Mar 04, 2021
    Safia Elhillo's novel follows a first-generation Muslim American girl who, bullied at school, longs for the homeland she's never really known and the alter ego who represents a more confident self.
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    'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality

    Mar 03, 2021
    Narrated by a robotic "artificial friend," Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel offers readers a deeper understanding of what it means to be human.
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    'Machinehood' Upgrades Asimov's 3 Laws Of Robotics

    Mar 02, 2021
    S.B. Divya's debut novel does what the best science fiction does — establishes a future that's relatable, plausible, and infinitely strange, where implants and wearable tech help humans survive.
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    'Klara And The Sun' Asks What It Means To Be Human

    Mar 02, 2021
    Kazuo Ishiguro's lovely, mournful new novel is set in a world where children can have android companions, known as Artificial Friends — but can those artificial friends ever replace the children?
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    Britain's MI5 Spy Agency Proves More Comic Than Tragic In 'Slough House'

    Mar 01, 2021
    Mick Herron's brilliantly plotted series follows a group of maladroit MI5 agents who've somehow blown it with the agency. The latest installment is a timely novel set in a post-Brexit U.K.
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    To Summarize, 'Infinite Country' Can Be Frustrating

    Feb 27, 2021
    Patricia Engels' novel about the experiences of a Colombian family migrating to the U.S. stands out for its sharp writing — but frustrates in equal measure because of its reliance on summary.
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    Love May Be 'For Losers,' But This Book Is For Everyone

    Feb 27, 2021
    Wibke Brueggemann's charmingly snarky YA novel follows teenaged Phoebe as she recovers from the Worst New Year's Ever and learns that not all of life's answers can be found via Google.
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    A Botched Execution Leads To A Search For Answers In 'Two Truths And A Lie'

    Feb 24, 2021
    Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for The Miami Herald, when she witnessed an execution that went horribly wrong. She revisits the case of Jesse Tafero in an intense new true crime book.
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    On 'The Kitchen Front,' 4 Women Cook Their Way To Victory

    Feb 24, 2021
    In Jennifer Ryan's new novel, set in England in 1942, four women from different backgrounds compete in a cooking contest with a possibly life-changing prize: The chance to cohost a BBC cooking show.
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    <em>Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa,</em> by Matthew Gavin Frank
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    Pigeons Star In A Tale Of Mining In 'Flight Of The Diamond Smugglers'

    Feb 23, 2021
    Journalist Matthew Gavin Frank exposes the history of South Africa's nefarious diamond industry, accompanied by a tale of pigeons and their role in subversion, in crisp and poetic prose.
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    Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita
    <em>Nubia: Real One</em>, by L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith
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    In 'Nubia: Real One,' Trying To Be A Hero When Society Thinks You're A Threat

    Feb 21, 2021
    Nubia has been many things over decades of comics: Wonder Woman's sister, her rival, a guardian of the underworld. Now, L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith have re-imagined her as a Black American teenager.
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    Winter Not Cold Enough? Here Are 3 YA Thrillers To Chill You

    Feb 20, 2021
    Prickly, angry girls get to the bottom of mysterious disappearances — or cause them — in these three angsty YA novels, from a retelling of "The Cask of Amontillado" to a wild and frozen dystopia.
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    You Actually Will Be Talking About 'No One Is Talking About This'

    Feb 18, 2021
    Patricia Lockwood's first novel follows an Extremely Online woman whose life changes forever when her niece is born with a serious illness — which sounds Hallmark-ready, but Lockwood pulls it off.
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    'The Echo Wife' Layers Sci-Fi And Murder Mystery For A Twisty Treat

    Feb 17, 2021
    Sarah Gailey's new novel follows a famed geneticist whose husband uses her methods to clone her — and has an affair with the clone. When he's murdered, the two women must figure out to do next.
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    For February, 3 Romances To Warm Up Your Valentine's Day

    Feb 14, 2021
    February is dark and cold at the best of times — and this year is no exception. But we've got three hot, humorous and heartwarming romances that will bring a little light to the darkest days.
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    Let This 'Wild Rain' Sweep You Away

    Feb 11, 2021
    The latest from Beverly Jenkins revisits an old favorite spot — the town of Paradise, Wy., where Spring Rain Lee (sister of previous hero Colton Lee) meets a man who may upend her independent life.
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    Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Jeremy Atherton Lin
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    'Gay Bar' Tracks The Wave Of A Whole Culture — And One Life

    Feb 11, 2021
    Author Jeremy Atherton Lin writes of the history of gay bars, as their existence is threatened by the popularity of dating apps and rising property costs, and reflects on their presence in his life.
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    <em>Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,</em> by Suleika Jaouad
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    'Between Two Kingdoms' Tells A Story Of Survival — And Of A Journey To Learn To Live

    Feb 09, 2021
    A new book by Suleika Jaouad, author of the column "Life, Interrupted," encompasses a less familiar tale of what it's like to survive cancer and have to figure out how to live again in its aftermath.
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    'We Run The Tides' Pulls You Into The Rough Seas Of Female Adolescence

    Feb 08, 2021
    Vendela Vida's novel centers on four 13-year-old girls who are perched on the edge of adulthood — and the recognition that some things they do or say now will change who they become as adults.
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    <em>Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,</em> by Elizabeth Kolbert
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    'Under A White Sky' Examines What It Might Take For Humans To Continue To Exist

    Feb 08, 2021
    Elizabeth Kolbert makes clear how far we already are from a world of undisturbed, balanced nature — and how far we must go to find a new balance for the planet's future, one that still includes us.
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    Powerful 'Removed' Walks A Path Between Memory And Mourning

    Feb 07, 2021
    Brandon Hobson's new novel crosses back and forth between past and present, mourning and memory to tell the story of a Cherokee family grappling with the death of a son at the hands of the police.
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    Facing Down The Monster Within in 'What Big Teeth'

    Feb 07, 2021
    Rose Szabo has created a monstrous, dysfunctional family far worse than anything Charles Addams ever dreamed up — and young daughter Eleanor may be the worst of them. She just doesn't know why.
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    Compelling Queer Romance Eclipses Sci-Fi Stakes in 'Winter's Orbit'

    Feb 06, 2021
    This charming, trope-laden sci-fi romance started life as an original story posted to a fanfiction site, and it wears its fannish influences proudly. Fake-dating? Hurt/comfort? Sunny/grumpy? Yes!
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    A Journalist's Eye Enlivens 'Land Of Big Numbers'

    Feb 06, 2021
    Journalist Te-Ping Chen's fiction debut puts her reportorial talents to brilliant use, in a collection of short stories about Chinese life that will make readers reconsider their settled notions.

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