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Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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A new collection of essays explores the particular contours of the maternal bond.

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

Can you sort the items into the correct order?

The "R" of Roy G. Biv: three letters.

Vasily Grossman was an out-of-shape novelist writing for a Soviet propaganda machine during the deadliest conflict in history. Somehow, he remade what war reporting could be.

After researchers found that we're speaking less and less each year, Shayla Love spent a week collecting audio recordings from her own life.

How TikTok's book-review videos, known collectively as BookTok, have become so popular--and powerful in the publishing world.

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