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Your Duck Is My Duck:
Stories
by Deborah Eisenberg
Ecco
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Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
By Minna Zallman Proctor
Sept/Oct/Nov 2018
In his visionary 1985 essay “Exactitude,” the Italian writer Italo Calvino says, “The literary work is one of these tiny portions in which the existent crystallizes into a shape, acquires a meaning—not fixed, not definitive, not hardened into mineral immobility, but alive, like an organism.” This

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Eden
by Andrea Kleine
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Eden by Andrea Kleine
By Jordan Larson
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Andrea Kleine’s novel opens with the confluence of two distinctly tabloid anxieties: divorce and kidnapping. Hope and her half-sister, Eden, latchkey kids of the 1990s, have grown up trekking back and forth between their home in Charlottesville and their father’s new place in the mountains. Both

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On the Other Side of Freedom:
The Case for Hope
by DeRay Mckesson
Viking
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
By Mychal Denzel Smith
Sept/Oct/Nov 2018
DeRay Mckesson is a frustrating figure. I don’t mean Mckesson the person, but rather Mckesson the persona, which is what you become once you have achieved his level of visibility. In the span of about four years, Mckesson, an educator and activist associated with Black Lives Matter, has gone from

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Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture: 1963–2017 by Katy Siegel
By Albert Mobilio
Sept/Oct/Nov 2018
In 1969 the painter Jack Whitten arrived in the town of Agia Galini, on the Greek island of Crete. Shortly before leaving New York he’d had a dream in which he was commanded to find a tree and carve it. From the bus window he spied the tree from his dream. He approached the owner, but because Whitten

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The Souls of Yellow Folk:
Essays
by Wesley Yang
W. W. Norton & Company
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The Souls of Yellow Folk by Wesley Yang
By Frank Guan
Sept/Oct/Nov 2018
The first piece in The Souls of Yellow Folk, the collection of Wesley Yang’s journalism, goes in with a bang. “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho,” Yang’s 2008 essay on the mass shooter of Virginia Tech, is a remarkable attempt to trace the author’s kinship with a young man who, one year earlier, had killed

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My Struggle:
Book Six
by Karl Ove Knausgaard
translation by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken
Archipelago
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My Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard
By James Camp
Sept/Oct/Nov 2018
IT IS ONE THING to write down the shameful truth of what you really think about someone else; another to publish that shameful truth inside a novel. It is, perhaps, a third thing to use, within your novel’s pages, that person’s actual name, and a fourth to render it all in prose whose rawness will

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Country Music USA:
50th Anniversary Edition
by Bill C. Malone and Tracey Laird
University of Texas Press
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Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone
By Jesse Barron
Summer 2018
Country fans no longer resemble the characters in country songs; they are salaried accountants chewing Nicorette in Chevy Tahoes, not railroad linemen spitting Copenhagen through the shot-out windows of a Ford F-150. Their assimilation worries them, and they sometimes overcompensate. “If any of you

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Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk
translation by Jennifer Croft
Riverhead Books
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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft
By Zoë Hu
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Airplane food is a subject of little glory, normally fodder for comedy routines and small talk. But acclaimed Polish author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Flights takes it, and the other small indignities of travel, as a matter of deep philosophical importance. Flights, which was translated into English by

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Come and Take It:
The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free
by Cody Wilson
Gallery Books
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Come and Take It: The Gun Printer’s Guide to Thinking Free by Cody Wilson
By Jesse Barron
Sept/Oct/Nov 2016
Cody Wilson was a twenty-four-year-old law student when in early 2012 he realized he could unite his two strong interests, open-source software and the right to bear arms.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
Penguin Press
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
By Minna Zallman Proctor
Summer 2018
Entirely pristine in its styling, Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth book, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, opens with the phrase “Whenever I woke up . . .” It is understated, implicit wording—the mild “whenever” simultaneously pointing to no precise time and to various specific times. The words “I woke up”

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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

Your Duck Is My Duck:

Stories

by Deborah Eisenberg

Ecco

$26.99 List Price

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

By Minna Zallman Proctor

Eden

by Andrea Kleine

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

$25.00 List Price

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

By Jordan Larson

On the Other Side of Freedom:

The Case for Hope

by DeRay Mckesson

Viking

$25.00 List Price

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

By Mychal Denzel Smith

By Albert Mobilio

The Souls of Yellow Folk:

Essays

by Wesley Yang

W. W. Norton & Company

$24.95 List Price

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

By Frank Guan

My Struggle:

Book Six

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

translation by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken

Archipelago

$33.00 List Price

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

By James Camp

Country Music USA:

50th Anniversary Edition

by Bill C. Malone and Tracey Laird

University of Texas Press

$27.95 List Price

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By Jesse Barron

Flights

by Olga Tokarczuk

translation by Jennifer Croft

Riverhead Books

$26.00 List Price

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By Zoë Hu

Come and Take It:

The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free

by Cody Wilson

Gallery Books

$16.99 List Price

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By Jesse Barron

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

Penguin Press

$26.00 List Price

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By Minna Zallman Proctor

By Christopher Lyon

By Miranda Popkey

By Tobi Haslett

By Dan Duray

By Jim Sleeper

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