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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

13 Ways of Looking at a Virus: Joseph Osmundson on the Visual Side of Virology

How to Adapt Edith Wharton: In Praise of Terence Davies’s The House of Mirth

Samuel Amadon on Self-Reinvention and Trusting Your Own Style

On the Merging of Fact and Fiction in a Berlin Haunted by a History of Secrecy and Lies

WATCH: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi on the Tensions of Our Time

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Why America Remains Haunted by Richard Nixon and His Paranoia About the Sixties

On the Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

Erika Krouse on Why the Subtitle of Her Memoir Should Be How I Became an Asshole

If You Want to Ruin Bookstores for Yourself, Become a Writer

How One Group of Global South Writers is Decolonizing Literature

What Machines Can’t Learn and Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

From World Wars to Airborne Fairies: How History, Myth, and Folklore Shape Our Stories

10 New SF and Fantasy Books
to Augment Your August

Michelle Tea on Crossing the Threshold from Ambivalence to Wanting a Baby

Lynne Tillman on the Awe-Inducing Experience of Witnessing Her Mother Die

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