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In Ordinary Human Failings, Megan Nolan works to balance her novel’s ambitious scale and grave themes with an attention to emotional minutiae.
September 19, 2024 issue
Writing Out of Annihilation
In the Warsaw Ghetto, the journalist Rokhl Auerbach risked her life to capture the stories of the Jewish community and, by writing about the people she knew, memorialized an entire lost world.
September 19, 2024 issue
Desert Visions
The flamingos were listening to and watching me and I was listening to and watching them. We were reading one another.
September 4, 2024
Haunted by Fiction
In Mark O’Connell’s A Thread of Violence, the murderer Malcolm Macarthur lurks in the gray area between life and literature.
September 19, 2024 issue
Satire in a Skittish Time
In Lexi Freiman’s The Book of Ayn, a canceled writer never quite makes the case against the imperatives of cultural sensitivity.
September 19, 2024 issue
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