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When They Were Pretty

From Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes, which was republished this month by McNally Editions. “Heavens, Harriet,” Mrs. Klein said when Aunt Harry gave her the hot rum drink, “I need…

Going Nowhere, Fast

by Mansi Choksi,

From The Newlyweds, which will be published next month by Atria Books. For most of my mother’s life, she has lived in the house she was born in. It is…

The Girl in the Picture

by Madeleine Watts,

Precocious puberty and its reflection

Sea of Tranquility

by Kathryn Davis,

From Aurelia, Aurélia, a memoir, which will be published this month by Graywolf Press. The driver let me out at the foot of an unpaved lane bordered by trees, their…

The Bodies in The Forest

by Masha Gessen,

By Masha Gessen, from Never Remember: Searching for Stalin’s Gulags in Putin’s Russia, which will be published next month by Columbia Global Reports. Gessen’s book The Future Is History won…

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

What Remains

by Richard Lloyd Parry,

By Richard Lloyd Parry, from Ghosts of the Tsunami, which was published this month by MCD. Parry is the Asia editor of the Times of London. On the afternoon of…

The March on Everywhere

by Leslie Jamison,

The ragged glory of female activism

The Emigrants

by Friedrich Trump,

From a letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Trump had been ordered to leave Bavaria for failing to complete mandatory…

The Curse

by Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa,

By Javier Marías, from To Begin at the Beginning, a reflection on the art of writing fiction. The book was published in October by Sylph Editions as part of their…

The City That Bleeds

by Lawrence Jackson,

Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising