Big Tech Wants to Commodify Your Happiness
In Claire Stanford’s “Happy for You,” a struggling academic joins an internet company building an algorithm to quantify human joy.
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The Work-Life-Balance Library Welcomes Another Title
Lara Bazelon’s “Ambitious Like A Mother” is the latest addition to a tall pile of books for women who are pondering issues of employment and children.
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In Tove Ditlevsen’s World, Happy Families Don’t Stand a Chance
Two reissued works of fiction, “The Faces” and “The Trouble With Happiness,” upend domestic life in the Danish writer’s cutting, deadpan prose.
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Janelle Monáe’s Queer, Afrofuturist Literary Debut
“The Memory Librarian” translates the themes of her 2018 album, “Dirty Computer,” onto the page.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Strange History of American Conservatism
Matthew Continetti’s “The Right” traces the twists and turns of the right wing’s policies and philosophy.
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Left Behind by China’s Economic Miracle
“Rouge Street,” a suite of three novellas by Shuang Xuetao, gives voice to characters in an industrial region sometimes called China’s Rust Belt.
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A Daughter Tries to Make Sense of Her Mother’s Suicide
In “Stepping Back From the Ledge,” Laura Trujillo brings a journalist’s eye and a family member’s agony to a bottomless loss.
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They Populated Louisiana. Against Their Will.
In “Mutinous Women,” Joan DeJean relates the little-known history of the prisoners deported in 1719 to French colonies on the Gulf Coast.
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Review: ‘Disorientation,’ by Elaine Hsieh Chou, and ‘Activities of Daily Living,’ by Lisa Hsiao Chen
Debut novels follow Asian American women researching the lives and work of elusive artists.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Review: ‘Four Treasures of the Sky,’ by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
A debut novel takes a new spin on the 19th-century western.
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