Books

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Jacey Duprie

The Devil Wears Prada lives on

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Therese Anne Fowler's 6 favorite books filled with family drama

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Samuel Goldman

Has the novel simply gotten boring?

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Nury Turkel

'That's the one, that's where we were locked up'

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Mai Al-Nakib recommends 6 books

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Rhoda Feng

A memoir's magnificent dance

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Kate Swenson

The strange relief of learning my son has autism

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Jeva Lange

Yes means yes, but it doesn't mean good sex

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NoViolet Bulawayo's 6 favorite books

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Sheila Heti recommends 6 books about the power of sex

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Danya Kukafka recommends 6 mind-bending books

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Heather Havrilesky recommends 6 memorable books

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Maeve Higgins recommends 6 funny books

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Michael Arceneaux

Book banning is back, and it's targeting Black folks

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Jessamine Chan recommends 6 books about motherhood

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Ryan Cooper

Our economy is a group project

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James Harbeck

The 'book words' that may misle you

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Jeva Lange

9 books to read in 2022

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Ilya Somin

The case for empowering Americans to vote with their feet

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James Harbeck

A 'fiction novel' isn't a thing — is it?

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Emerald Fennell recommends 6 promising books

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6 book recommendations from Shea Ernshaw

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Neal Stephenson recommends 6 books on information manipulation

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No burn

Virginia local school board reverses ban of 'sexually explicit' books

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Kate Baer's 6 favorite risk-taking novels

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'those books in a fire'

Banning, criminalizing, maybe even burning books is back for public schools

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6 book recommendations from Emily Ratajkowski

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6 book recommendations from Yrsa Daley-Ward

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Ryan Cooper

The forgotten history of Republican book banning

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Jeva Lange

The 5 words that haunt me at 3 a.m.

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Damon Linker

The important lesson of Ross Douthat's medical memoir

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Bonnie Kristian

Against political kids books

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Michael Koryta recommends 6 books for spooky season

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6 books that inspired Elizabeth Strout

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Jeva Lange

Dune should've been less Dune-y

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Susan Orlean recommends 6 books for animal lovers