A Hazard to the Minds of Younger Ladies, by Adam Morgan (Atria). On the coronary heart of this full of life historical past is the editor Margaret C. Anderson, a …
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Virginia Woolf had portrayed an analogous stress between unity and fragmentation a decade earlier, with Mrs. Dalloway gazing at herself within the mirror: That was her self—pointed; dartlike; particular. That …
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Folks knew about incarceration. Seneca, the Roman thinker and dramatist (and court docket counsellor), argued that punishment ought to be proportionate to the crime, and resisted the notion that each …
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Cursed Daughters, by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Doubleday). Set in Lagos, this moody, engrossing novel braids collectively the tales of three ladies reared to imagine that they’re cursed due to a shared …
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Very like her childhood identification with communism, her writing started as one thing of a joke. She was completely dedicated to the Occasion’s beliefs, however she additionally had a eager …
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The Land in Winter, by Andrew Miller (Europa). This delicately written, deeply psychological novel, which was nominated for the Booker Prize, follows two neighboring married {couples} via a brutal English …
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The Age of Extraction, by Tim Wu (Knopf). A chilling spectre, of “a technologically armored wall between the haves and have-nots,” hangs over this incisive evaluation of the main tech …
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The Genius of Timber, by Harriet Rix (Crown). The central argument of this wide-ranging treatise is that timber are ecosystem engineers par excellence, able to influencing “water, air, earth, and …
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At its peak, “Your Present of Reveals” had twenty-five million viewers, and Caesar was hailed as a genius. Albert Einstein and Leonard Bernstein had been followers; on Saturday nights, when …
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The Thoughts Reels, by Fredrik deBoer (Espresso Home). This début novel chronicles a younger girl’s unravelling with ethnographic detachment. Alice, a middling scholar at a state college in Oklahoma, drifts …
