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A few months ago, the New York Times’ team of book critics published their ranking of the 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years. Before I had even seen…
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“the handmaid’s tale” has turned into a hustle, just like everything else
There are only a handful of novels I’ve read more than twice, and one of them is “The Handmaid’s Tale.” There was a lot of Margaret Atwood on my…
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is hedonism...fine?
It’s after Labor Day, which I hear means summer is over. Kids are back in school, and because adults have also been to school at some point in our…
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why I travel, why I read
In 1949, when the future Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez was working as a newspaper reporter in Cartegena, Colombia, his editor asked him to go to…
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history, purity, ambiguity, freedom
I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and I’ve always felt lucky that was the place where I learned American history. So many of the locations I read about…
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the buzz on desire
Every summer a couple of books are published that take over conversation, at least among the Extremely Online and bookish girl circles I participate in…
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pay attention
My heart has felt heavy and swollen lately — last weekend the news of more American massacres made me so sad I couldn’t finish putting this newsletter…
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the walz electric
the walz electric
a weekly reflection on things I'm reading, watching, hearing, and thinking about. plus: tell me why you want to read books, and I'll tell you what books to read

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