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A new year always brings some uncertainty, and that seems particularly true at the start of 2025.
Its the most ambitious novel yet from a writer quietly redefining the emotional contours of contemporary horror.
Nila must reckon with her impulse to pursue an artistic life shaped by another artists control and insecurity.
Emma Alpern
After a disastrously embarrassing incident at work, former NPR host Reuben is out of a job.
Lipsteins latest is a simmering psychological novel about modern masculinity that tiptoes into thriller territory.
Julie Kosin
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Virginia Feitos first novel,Mrs.
The novel is already getting the feature-film treatment, starring Margaret Qualley and Thomasin McKenzie.
So read the book now before the paperback gets one of those horrid movie-poster covers.
Why is Cecily Strong in every cell-phone ad?
Why is Kenan Thompson the longest-running performer inSNLhistory and Kel Mitchell mostly a nostalgia figure?
Why do we still have to pretend Mick Jagger is funny?
This book will give insight into a famously enigmatic man, and thus the empire he hath wrought.
The sudden dissolution of her relationship spurs Mlotek to research marriage as a cultural and historic institution.
Books about perimenopausal women seeking romance outside their marriages continue to be a micro-trend in the publishing world.
Now theresCrush, which reads almost like a cross between the two.
The potential lovers communicate through books and literary references.
I mean: Who among us hasnt done this?
But Calhoun has a gift for explaining complicated emotions with concise, carefully chosen prose.
In Peterss work, the process of self-discovery and transition is messy, radical, and urgent.
Life throws you curveballs.
Sometimes it feels like life is nothingbutcurveballs.
Eventually, they each carve out a new life in cosmopolitan Zanzibar.
This is Gurnahs 11th novel and his first since he won the Nobel Prize in 2021.
Her latest continues in that vein.
An actress living in New York City, married to a writer, is working on a new play.
This book is fascinating.
And scary as hell.
In a time when everyone else is zigging, Walker zags.
Stephen King continues his late-career turn toward the detective thriller with another outing for Holly Gibney.
Unlike 2023sHolly, however,Never Flinchfeatures more of the ensemble-cast storytelling that King does so well.
In recent Holly books, King has been at his most outspoken about the political evils in contemporary America.
ButThe Dry Seasonis anything but a refutation of her earlier work.
Who does a person become when they cede their life to infatuation?
And how does one return to the things they most love after losing a lover?
Cosbys honest, brutal prose is the perfect vehicle for an underdog story about last resorts and final stands.
That can be a sinister thing; for him, it was more or less a gift.
Recurring elements and themes in both include friendship, memory, broken teacups, broken hearts, and faith.
This is a curious and entirely unique work.
A retelling ofPeter Panset in a lightly veiled version of the Neverland Ranch: Yes, hey.
Kuang (August 25)Happiness and Love, by Zoe Dubno (September 2)
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