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This comedy of manners from 2012 perfectly anticipated the 2010s’ reckoning with misogyny
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The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. explores everyday misogyny with vicious precision.
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We read all 25 National Book Award finalists for 2019. Here’s what we thought.
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The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.
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75 books from university presses that will help you understand the world
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These books will help you understand the world and make it a better place.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a great writer. His new book The Water Dancer is not a great novel.
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Coates’s debut novel has exquisite sentences and ideas, but the rest is a mess.
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Netflix’s Timothée Chalamet vehicle The King is a humorless slog on the inhumanity of war
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This movie really wants you to know it ain’t your daddy’s Shakespeare.
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What do we do when the art we love was created by a monster?
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I don’t know what to do with good art by predatory artists. So I asked some literary critics.
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Harvey Weinstein’s night out looks a lot like the groundwork for a comeback
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Weinstein’s been going out in public a lot lately.
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How to protect your books with medieval curses
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And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.
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Ellen DeGeneres, George W. Bush, and the death of uncritical niceness
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Ellen built her brand on being nice to anyone, even George W. Bush. That brand might not be viable now.
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How Reese Witherspoon became the new high priestess of book clubs
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Oprah who?
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Caroline Calloway, her "one-woman Fyre Fest," and her ex-best friend Natalie, explained
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Influencer Caroline Calloway built her brand on an aspirational fairy tale. Now she’s famous for toxic dysfunction.
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Taylor Swift’s explanation for not endorsing Hillary Clinton actually makes a lot of sense
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It’s also extremely image-savvy.
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Toni Morrison’s immortal legacy, explained in one passage
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Morrison built the black American canon, both as a novelist and as an editor.
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The Dayton, Ohio, shooter reportedly kept a "rape list" of potential victims
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The Dayton shooter’s history of misogyny fits into a large and disturbing pattern.
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"Art is dangerous": Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, and Sonia Sanchez in conversation
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Three of our greatest living writers discuss Orlando, Muhammad Ali, and why they write.
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The first guacamole recipe written in English came from a British pirate
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And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.
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The Taylor Swift/Scooter Braun controversy, explained
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It’s really about Kanye.
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Why E. Jean Carroll doesn’t use the word "rape" to describe her accusations against Trump
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"Every woman gets to choose her word."
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The language we have for talking about sexual violence is a mess, part 1000.
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Midnight Chicken is a cookbook that reads like a novel
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In Ella Risbridger’s debut book, the prose is as delicious as the food.
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Jim DeRogatis broke the R. Kelly story in 2000. Now he’s compiled a damning case against Kelly.
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"We thought we’d nailed the story. And we thought he would stop hurting young women. And it continues for 19 years after that."
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