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We Were Eight Years in Power:
An American Tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
One World
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Coming to Terms
By Hannah Black
Feb/Mar 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power collects eight essays published in The Atlantic between 2008 and 2017, padded with fresh introductions. Three meanings of the time period in the title are apparent. The first refers to the eight years of Barack Obama’s presidency. The second, alluded

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Ultraluminous:
A Novel
by Katherine Faw
MCD
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Ultraluminous by Katherine Faw
By Jordan Larson
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A woman with a set of fake names—Kata, Katya, Kasia, Katushka—has returned to New York after eighteen years in Dubai. Glass towers now crowd the Williamsburg waterfront and women yell at her to get out of the bike lane. Bodega cigarettes cost fourteen dollars and smoking in bars is against the law.

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The Years
by Annie Ernaux
translation by Alison L. Strayer
Seven Stories Press
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The Years by Annie Ernaux
By Gili Ostfield
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“I have always wanted to write the sort of book that I find it impossible to talk about afterward, the sort of book that makes it impossible for me to withstand the gaze of others,” writes Annie Ernaux’s narrator near the end of her 1998 autofiction, Shame. Ernaux takes the sentiment further in the

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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden:
Stories
by Denis Johnson
Random House
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Earth Angel: On Denis Johnson
By Rachel Kushner
Feb/Mar 2018
Dear Astronaut Selection Officer: I am a civilian who would like to be considered for the one-year astronaut training program. I would be most grateful if you would send me information, application forms, and any such material you feel might be helpful in this regard. Sincerely, Denis H. Johnson

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Counting Backwards:
A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
by Henry Jay Przybylo MD
W. W. Norton & Company
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The Body Politic
By Charlotte Shane
Dec/Jan 2018
Anesthesia has been around for over 170 years, and in spite of its inherent drama it’s impressively nonlethal. Current estimates place the death toll at about one in two hundred thousand or even one in three hundred thousand, which means—according to the earnest nonprofit the National Safety Council—that

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Gold Dust Woman:
The Biography of Stevie Nicks
by Stephen Davis
St. Martin's Press
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Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks by Stephen Davis
By Emily Gould
Dec/Jan 2018
Early in Stephen Davis’s workmanlike unauthorized biography of Stevie Nicks, we witness the circumstances of her most enduring creation’s birth. Twenty-six-year-old Nicks—sick and tired of waitressing; struggling with the controlling behavior of her boyfriend, Lindsey Buckingham; fighting to keep

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Black Sunset:
Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos
by Clancy Sigal
Soft Skull Press
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Ballad of a Wounded Man
By Laura Kipnis
Dec/Jan 2018
I’d long had it in the back of my mind to write something about Clancy Sigal, which according to my notes I’d provisionally titled “The Man Who Fascinated Women (Writers).” Whatever it is in me that’s drawn to wounded men—and Clancy was a great one of the species
The Kingdom:
A Novel
by Emmanuel Carrère
translation by John Lambert
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère
By Michael Sonnenschein
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"The Kingdom" is a weird, brilliant hybrid of biblical interpretation, memoir, and historical fiction in which the author speculates about the personalities of the earliest Christians. The book is brash in its structure, tone, and some of its claims. But Carrère isn’t doing anything that Christians haven't been doing for two millennia. He’s just doing it an in a wildly contemporary, self-conscious way.

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Red Clocks:
A Novel
by Leni Zumas
Little, Brown and Company
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Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
By Fiona Maazel
Dec/Jan 2018
I’ve heard it argued—and I agree—that fiction that builds a universe whose rules depart from our own allows for the contemplation of ethical dilemmas that cannot be addressed in or by the world as we know it. This kind of fiction—what my toddler might call “same but different”—tends to disrupt our

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Dawn of the New Everything:
Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
by Jaron Lanier
Henry Holt and Co.
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The Ghost Machine
By Jesse Barron
Dec/Jan 2018
A LARGE MAN with a voice as high and reedy as the medieval pipes he collects, Jaron Lanier has for years fashioned himself as an insider-outsider of Silicon Valley, an in-demand apostate on television åand the lecture circuit. His appeal derives partly from the fact that unlike most of his peers, he

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Fair Game
By Christopher Lyon
POV
On a steamy Friday afternoon that felt more like late July than mid-September, I headed to the annual New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, aiming to learn more about the state of independent art publishing. Run by Printed Matter, the nonprofit organization that promotes artists’ books with evangelical zeal, the fair is now in

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On Joan Didion
By Miranda Popkey
POV
I “She cooked nonstop,” Eve Babitz, the Los Angeles–based artist and author of Eve’s Hollywood, remembers. “She made stuff like beef Wellington—for a sit-down dinner for thirty-five people—with a side dish, Cobb salad or something, for those who didn’t eat meat. . . . It’s the first time I ever saw Spode china. . .

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Hearing Voices
By Tobi Haslett
POV
Last month, part of the street I live on was renamed “Do the Right Thing Way,” after the Spike Lee Joint. It’s a taunting slap to this little strip of gentrifying Brooklyn. Do the Right Thing, which was shot a few blocks from my building, is a film about racial hatred and police slaughter, but

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Will the Real American Psycho Please Stand Up: Why Donald Trump Was Patrick Bateman’s Hero
By Dan Duray
POV
Recently, I had cause to reread Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 bestseller American Psycho. A lot has been said about this controversial comic novel’s violence, but I think it’s best classified with social satire like Vile Bodies or Speedboat (just with, you know, a homicidal narrator). And as it turns out, despite its twenty-four years, some

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Neoliberalizing Liberal Education
By Jim Sleeper
POV
A good liberal education has three dimensions—learning, teaching, and citizenship building—each of which the journalist Fareed Zakaria has mishandled enough in his own academic career so that he misrepresents them for the rest of us in In Defense of a Liberal Education. I review that book in Bookforum’s summer issue, but before the predictable coronation gets too far along, here

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Daily Review

We Were Eight Years in Power:

An American Tragedy

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

One World

$28.00 List Price

For more info visit:Amazon • IndieBound • Barnes & Noble

By Hannah Black

Ultraluminous:

A Novel

by Katherine Faw

MCD

$25.00 List Price

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By Jordan Larson

The Years

by Annie Ernaux

translation by Alison L. Strayer

Seven Stories Press

$19.95 List Price

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By Gili Ostfield

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden:

Stories

by Denis Johnson

Random House

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By Rachel Kushner

Counting Backwards:

A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia

by Henry Jay Przybylo MD

W. W. Norton & Company

$25.95 List Price

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By Charlotte Shane

Gold Dust Woman:

The Biography of Stevie Nicks

by Stephen Davis

St. Martin's Press

$27.99 List Price

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By Emily Gould

Black Sunset:

Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal and Raging Egos

by Clancy Sigal

Soft Skull Press

$17.95 List Price

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By Laura Kipnis

The Kingdom:

A Novel

by Emmanuel Carrère

translation by John Lambert

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

$28.00 List Price

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By Michael Sonnenschein

Red Clocks:

A Novel

by Leni Zumas

Little, Brown and Company

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By Fiona Maazel

Dawn of the New Everything:

Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

by Jaron Lanier

Henry Holt and Co.

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By Jesse Barron

By Christopher Lyon

By Miranda Popkey

By Tobi Haslett

By Dan Duray

By Jim Sleeper

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