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I wrote about two more novels of total social collapse, including M. John Harrison's excellent "The End of Everything," for @BookPostUSA
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Déjà vu: “Maybe this is why theater people live so long on average: they live in many times at once.” The book that almost wasn’t. An excerpt from Aleksander Wat’s new diary from New York Review Books. books.substack.com/p/diary-a…
Woolf compared her to a stinking civet cat who roamed the streets, so how can we not love Katherine Mansfield? books.substack.com/p/review-…
As the role of student journalists in breaking the Cornell Seven story shows, student papers are often at the scene first and go where peer journalists have not.
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Spanning continents and exploring themes of family, education, and the Korean immigrant experience,
@minjinlee11 's new novel, American Hagwon, is a triumph. Can't get enough like us? Hannah Sanghee Park's review is up and free to read this week!
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Michael Robbins reflects on poems about our current moment in history. It's both beautiful and tragic, and we're here for it! books.substack.com/p/review-…
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“This poem more than any other makes me feel the totality and the weight of our historical moment, which is perhaps terminal. The rage of, the goodbye of it all.“
i wrote about some recent poetry for @BookPostUSA
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I wrote about Emily St. John Mandel's latest, "Exit Party," for @BookPostUSA
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George Lamming resists traditional investment in character writes Caryl Phillips in her review on Book Post, from the introduction to a new edition of Natives of My Person by @doubledaybooks , part of its new Outsider Editions series: books.substack.com/p/diary-c…
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Ironic as one of the criticisms of the mandated NYC Reads curriculum especially HMH is there is no time for kids to read whole books. nydailynews.com/2026/08/13/c…
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Really a joy to write for Book Post about a fascinating unknown (to me) history.
. @S_DeGooyer reflects on how a new history of the "Hobo" broadened her image from "jumbled and wrong . . . cultural references" to that of a "highly skilled seasonal laborer": books.substack.com/p/review-… @PrincetonUPress
. @Gothamist reports "A sharp drop in literacy scores among New York City students" is "prompting some to question the exams' accuracy."
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.@nytimes on a "sharp" drop in reading test scores for NYC public school students: nytimes.com/2026/08/07/nyreg…
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.@nytimes with an interesting op-ed on the staying cultural import of literary prizes in the age of algorithms: nytimes.com/2026/08/09/opini…
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. @S_DeGooyer reflects on how a new history of the "Hobo" broadened her image from "jumbled and wrong . . . cultural references" to that of a "highly skilled seasonal laborer": books.substack.com/p/review-… @PrincetonUPress
The latest novel, People Like Us, by our author
@JasonMott , who received the National Book Award for Hell of A Book, is out this week in paperback! Order from our partner bookstore, @whosebooks
Read @JasonMott 's review of a new translation of Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations” only on Book Post, free for for a limited time: books.substack.com/p/review-…
Stephen Johnson tells the simultaneously harrowing and inspirational story of how the "sensuously engaging" music of Anton Bruckner helped him deal with depression: books.substack.com/p/diary-s… @NottingHillEds
Some feel Christopher Nolan's box-office-breaking #theodysssey2026 is not faithful to the original. Read Sarah Ruden's take on Pat Barker's reimagining of Homer's The Iliad in her Regeneration Trilogy on Book Post: books.substack.com/p/review-…
Read Anakana Schofield on @Doug_D_Stuart 's #oprahsbookclub Pick John of John now on Book Post: books.substack.com/p/review-… @panmacmillan
