But “The Oracle Pool” is anything but a classic mystery. The plot is non-linear, the living and dead commingle, and the characters are seekers of every stripe.
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Fifty Shades ends on an unexpected feminist note
With ‘Freed,’ James wraps things up. The writing is tediously mechanical, but the message is a surprise.
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In ‘Morningside Heights,’ a married couple copes with unexpected illness
As with his previous novels, Joshua Henkin pays compassionate attention to modern human predicaments.
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Bedside table: Reading, and re-reading
“Just finished Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Is this Anything?’, a book of his stand-up comedy over the years. Each chapter is a decade. I found the teens, the last decade that went into the COVID issues, the funniest. Also, just started re-reading Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road,’ tales of his cross-country treks and the characters he meets […]
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An uneasy century, outlined in poetry
In “The Century,” poet Éireann Lorsung uses unconventional language to try to describe the horrors of history.
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Bedside table: A born storyteller asks, when is the past truly the past?
“I’m reading Menachem Kaiser’s ‘Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure,’ about a young man’s effort to reclaim a building in a small Polish town that was owned by his family members before they were deported to Nazi death camps. His grandfather – who survived the Holocaust – died before the author was […]
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Has the U.S. suffered a fall from grace, or is it just setting up a leap of faith?
A former Obama speech writer travels the world to uncover how we’re seen, and whether it matters.
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A hospital chaplain tends to the souls of patients in Ellen Cooney’s eloquent new novel
Told through a series of vignettes, ‘One Night Two Souls Went Walking’ beautifully rides the line between daily life and deep meaning.
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Janet Malcolm, provocative author and journalist, dies at 86
The author of numerous influential books and magazine stories, the Prague native practiced a kind of post-modern style in which she often called attention to her own role in the narrative.
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Bedside Table: Two excellent books for the farm girl in all of us
“I recently finished rereading ‘The Dirty Life,’ a memoir of an aspiring New York City journalist transplanted to the country to start a 500-acre farm from scratch. Author Kristin Kimball mixes the realism of building a farm and business with enough romanticism to leave me wanting to get my hands in the dirt. The sequel, […]
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