More Voices, Higher Stakes Make For A Sequel That's Bigger, Badder And Better
Linden A. Lewis's stylish queer space opera series levels up with The Second Rebel, which picks up with our initial protagonists Hiro, Lito and the First Sister, and adds a few new voices too.
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There’s Something Fishy About This Refuge in the Colorado Wilds
“The Guide,” by Peter Heller, evokes a near future in which coronavirus variants have pushed America’s leisure class to the great outdoors.
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A Supreme Court That Has Gone Wrong
Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Presumed Guilty” details the many ways the Supreme Court has favored the police over the accused.
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How Can Colleges Handle Sexual Misconduct Cases More Fairly?
In “Sexual Justice,” Alexandra Brodsky, a civil rights lawyer, homes in on the processes by which such cases are typically adjudicated — and how to improve them.
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Kat Chow on How Mourning Is Like Taxidermy
In her memoir “Seeing Ghosts,” the author recounts her mother’s death and her immigrant family’s numerous migrations, separations and losses, evoking the way grief entails a particular, perpetual sorrow.
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Stories of Our Perverse Present and Our Haunted Futures
“After the Sun,” a collection by the Danish writer Jonas Eika, stretches past the limits of the ordinary.
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The Fate of the Self in the Age of Clicks
In “God, Human, Animal, Machine,” the essayist and cultural critic Meghan O’Gieblyn traces how our conception of the human mind has been shaped by our tech-driven era — and what such a view leaves out.
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When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory
In “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern offers a dual biography of George Gamow and Fred Hoyle, two midcentury physicists who debated the origins of the universe.
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The Worldwide Effort to Bar Chinese Immigration
Mai Ngai’s “The Chinese Question” looks at an issue that has disturbed the Anglophone world for decades, and continues to produce divisions today.
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In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life
Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an older, more decorous America, he grapples with themes that feel shockingly contemporary.
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