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    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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    By Kate Colby  October 2, 2025

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Anton Hur Is Reading Now, and Next

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    Funeral For a Postponed Death: On Burying Argentina’s Disappeared

    Mariana Enriquez: “How beautiful cemeteries are.... Where the name and the date remain, a voice that says: I was here, now I’m gone.”

     
    By Mariana Enriquez  October 2, 2025

    Re(se)a(r)ching For Connection: Navigating the Fact and Fiction of Alien Abduction Stories

    Ilana Masad: “It’s in trying to reach beyond our limited selves that we are, I believe, most human.”

     
    By Ilana Masad  October 2, 2025