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“Life Among the Terranauts,” by Caitlin Horrocks, offers vivid, often fantastical portraits of life.
With his debut novel, “Hades, Argentina,” Daniel Loedel pays homage to lost family.
In “Unsolaced,” Greta Ehrlich tells a story of personal discovery against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
In “Pee Wees,” Rich Cohen chronicles a year in youth hockey — and gets real about its impact on his own psyche.
In “The Crooked Path to Abolition,” James Oakes shows how Abraham Lincoln relied on America’s founding texts to chart a path to abolition.
In “Drug-Use for Grown-Ups,” Carl L. Hart, a drug addiction expert, argues that we misunderstand the way most people use illegal substances.
In “Beginners,” the author Tom Vanderbilt tries to acquire a number of skills, from chess playing to surfing, in order to explore how the mind learns.
“That Old Country Music” is a showcase of the Irish writer’s style, a nervy mix of high poetry and low comedy.
Justine Cowan discovered that her mother, an exacting Bay Area grande dame, had grown up in a bleak institution for “foundlings.”
Stephen and Paul Kendrick’s “Nine Days” recounts a brief episode of the civil rights movement that had a surprisingly lasting impact.
In “Social Chemistry” Marissa King examines the ways our reality is shaped by the networks we form and how we form them.
“The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata,” by Gina Apostol, takes the form of a found memoir that has been picked apart by scholars.
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