Essay: Jay Gatsby: A Dreamer Doomed to Be Excluded. The Novelist Jesmyn Ward Explains.
In this adaptation of her introduction to a new edition of “The Great Gatsby,” Ward reads Fitzgerald’s novel, uncovering an impossible yearning to belong.
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Fiction: Portrait of the Artist as a Complete Jerk
In Tom Rachman’s new novel, “The Italian Teacher,” a lusty, larger-than-life painter bleeds his family dry in the name of his art.
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Meg Wolitzer Traces The Arc Of The Feminist Movement In 'The Female Persuasion'
Wolitzer's new novel centers on a legendary feminist and the young woman whose life she transforms. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls The Female Persuasion an absorbing and compelling work.
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Nonfiction: Ten Women Whose Tongues and Pens Were as ‘Sharp’ as Knives
In “Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion,” Michelle Dean considers 10 writers whose formidable talents earned them respect and enmity.
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'Circe' Gives The Witch Of The Odyssey A New Life
Madeleine Miller's lush, gold-lit new novel is told from the perspective of Circe, the sorceress whose brief appearance in the Odyssey becomes just one moment in a longer, more complex life.
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Fiction: She’s Here, She’s Queer, She’s Figuring Out What That Means
Chelsey Johnson’s debut novel, “Stray City,” explores a young, single, lesbian mother’s path to self-discovery and self-acceptance.
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New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Nonfiction: Stories Filled With Strivers, Schemers and Adventurers
People living on the fringe roam through Thomas McGuane’s dazzling new collection of stories, “Cloudbursts.”
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'Sharp' Is A Dinner Party You Want To Be At
Michelle Dean's new compendium of outspoken women is as stimulating and insightful as its roster of guests — ten writers, from Dorothy Parker to Pauline Kael, who pulled no punches on the page.
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By the Book: Questlove: By the Book
The musician Questlove, author most recently of “Creative Quest,” grew up reading to his father on car trips. “At the time it seemed like father-son bonding. Now I think maybe he was tricking me.”
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