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Book reviews

New Books

by Dan Piepenbring,

No one can torch the English language like a Beltway insider. A few years ago, phrases like “a feature, not a bug” and “saying the quiet part out loud” burned…

The Serene Steamroller

by Joy Williams,

On Kafka

New Books

by Dan Piepenbring,

I was six the first time I recall setting foot in a funeral home, and I remember my confusion at the phrase—a home where none but the dead lived, and…

Never Done

by Christine Smallwood,

The impossible work of motherhood

Family Affair

by Joanna Biggs,

Alan Hollinghurst’s break with tradition

Silent Treatment

by Amia Srinivasan,

The troubling response to a memoir of incest

Reading in the Dark

by Christine Smallwood,

Does fiction matter in a post-fact age?

Dead Ball Situation

by Geoff Dyer,

A philosopher’s flat-footed meditations on the beautiful game

Lean Out

by Dayna Tortorici,

Feminist struggles are labor struggles

Unseen Worlds

by Yasmine Seale,

Islam’s forgotten reformation

Head-Scratcher

by Christopher Beha,

Can neuroscience finally explain consciousness?

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