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How Comedy Stopped Being a Genre and Became the Only Way Humans Communicate
A conversation with Planet Funny author Ken Jennings.
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“On the one hand, the joy of children. On the other hand, the misery of them.”
That’s the dilemma facing the narrator of Sheila Heti’s novel Motherhood.
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Sloane Crosley’s Kinetic Intelligence
The Look Alive Out There author on egg-freezing, porny uncles, and Queen Joan Didion.
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That Feeling When Your Friend Becomes a Nazi
Matthew Dickman’s third book of poetry wrestles with white supremacy in Portland.
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Freshwater Is a Novel About Sex, Self-Harm, and Spirits
A review of Akwaeke Emezi’s vivid debut.
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The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore Is an Absorbing Book About the Lives of Women
A traumatizing experience at summer camp reverberates for years in Kim Fu’s new novel.
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The #MeToo Movement Changes the Way We Read Hillary Clinton’s What Happened
The shocking things in her book that she didn’t talk about in her campaign.
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Required Reading for Revolutionaries
Jerry Rubin’s 1960s activism was radical, effective, and funny.
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Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach Gets Good on Page 362
That’s when something finally happens in this Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist’s new book.
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We Should Treat Big Tech Like the False Religion It Is
Franklin Foer’s World Without Mind Explains Why
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A Math Prodigy Becomes a Writer in an Attempt to Understand His Cousin’s Inexplicable Crime
Ben Blum’s True-Crime Memoir Ranger Games Looks at What Elite Military Training Does to a Person’s Mind
