Nonfiction: Meet the Dreamers Who Walked 1,500 Miles to Stay in America
Suffering From Nature Deficit Disorder? Try Forest Bathing
Positive scientific results aside, the idea of shinrin-yoku shouldn't be surprising: Who hasn't felt an inner sense of well-being when walking along a forest trail? asks commentator Marcelo Gleiser.
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Love (And Music And Glitter) Saves The Day In 'Space Opera'
In Catherynne M. Valente's new novel, a washed-up glitter punk musician has to save all humanity by singing in an intergalactic version of the Eurovision Song Contest. (Also, there are murderhippos.)
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'Two Sisters' Leave Home For Syria, Tearing A Family Apart
Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad's new book is a heartbreaking but necessary account of two teenage sisters from a moderate Muslim family who fled to war-torn Syria after becoming radicalized.
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Nonfiction: What’s a Zucchini? And Other Questions Americans Once Asked
50 Years Later, '2001: A Space Odyssey' Is Still A Cinematic Landmark
Stanley Kubrick's science-fiction epic — which opened to mixed reviews in 1968 — unknowingly foreshadowed the future of effects-driven blockbusters.
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Nonfiction: A Reckoning With an Imperfect Science in ‘Blue Dreams’
Meg Wolitzer Asks The Big Questions In 'The Female Persuasion'
At the start of Meg Wolitzer's new novel, a young woman is groped at a fraternity party — and her question, "Why is it like this, and what are we supposed to do about it?" echoes through the book.
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'Look Alive Out There' Elevates Its Anecdotes With Humor And Feeling
Sloane Crosley returns to form with her first essay collection in eight years, covering everything from an escalating battle with her neighbor's hip but noisy children to mountain climbing in Ecuador.
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Fiction: Real Estate, Parking and Violence: A Novel of New York
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