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• American Canto

  Nuzzi, Olivia,

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  "Olivia Nuzzi’s Book Has the Audacity to Be Boring"

• Olivia Nuzzi’s RFK affair book was going to be self-serving. It’s so much worse than that.

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  God, everyone sucks so much in American Canto.

• Twice

  a Novel

  Albom, Mitch, 1958-

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• Mitch Albom’s ‘Twice’ asks what you would do differently if you could

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  Mitch Albom’s new novel, “Twice,” is about a man with the miraculous ability to travel back to any point in his life and make a different choice. A few hours after starting “Twice,” I knew exactly which choice I would make differently.

• Independent

  a Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines

  Jean-Pierre, Karine, 1974-

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• In her new book, Biden’s former press secretary lets Democrats have it

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  Karine Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a critique of Biden and the Democrats that is outdated, impractical and driven more by personal grievance than policy.

• What's With Baum?

  a Novel

  Allen, Woody, 1935-

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  "There are many things that the world needs in 2025, but I’m not sure that the debut novel by 89-year-old Woody Allen is one of them."

• Is Woody Allen’s first novel just settling scores?

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  In What’s with Baum? the 89-year-old film director writes about a middle-aged author accused of sexual misconduct

• The Technological Republic

  Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

  Karp, Alexander C.,

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  "At times I approached the book, perhaps to preserve my own psychic integrity, as an avant-garde exercise in narrative unreliability"

• The War App | Mark O’Connell | The New York Review of Books

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  Last year, according to a recent report in The New York Times, Alexander Karp received a total of $6.8 billion for his services as CEO of the data

• The Land of Sweet Forever

  Stories and Essays

  Lee, Harper,

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  "Lee, I am sure, would be embarrassed by the publication of this book "

• Cashing in on Harper Lee | The Observer

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  The Land of Sweet Forever is a cynical, barrel-scraping trawl through the To Kill a Mockingbird author’s slight early works

• Summer of Our Discontent

  the Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

  Williams, Thomas Chatterton, 1981-

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  "His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions.”

• How the George Floyd Protests Changed America, for Better and Worse

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  In “Summer of Our Discontent,” the journalist Thomas Chatterton Williams argues that Floyd’s murder in 2020 upended American racial politics — with lasting, often adverse effects.

• Next to Heaven

  Frey, James, 1969-

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  "while reading Next to Heaven, I sometimes thought I could feel individual cells in my body trying to die.”

• James Frey’s New Novel, “Next to Heaven” Is as Bad as It Sounds | The New Yorker

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  A review of the book by the controversial author of “A Million Little Pieces,” who drew a rebuke from Oprah on her TV show after he appeared on her book club and was later exposed as a fabulist. Katy Waldman writes.

• Unfettered

  Fetterman, John, 1969-

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• John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector

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  John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control.

• Atmosphere

  a Love Story

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  "When I interviewed Reid in 2022, she told me that ‘fun is not antithetical to substance.’ In Atmosphere, just to make sure, she gives us neither.”

• Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new novel is like eating a bowl of broccoli — in space

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  The Daisy Jones & the Six author returns with Atmosphere, a 1980s lesbian romance set at Nasa. But Houston, we have a problem …