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• Ingram

  A Novel

  C.K., Louis

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  "Ingram seems most of all like the kind of first novel that ends up in a drawer and stays there until its author dies."

• Twice

  a Novel

  Albom, Mitch, 1958-

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  "It’s astonishing that a man who’s sold tens of millions of copies, an author who presumably has access to the finest editors in the business, can continue to produce lines that feel so synthetic and recycled … The truth I learned in Twice is that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Independent

  a Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines

  Jean-Pierre, Karine, 1974-

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  "It is incredible—and emblematic of the Democrats’ total aesthetic and intellectual driftlessness—that someone who writes in such feel-good, thought-repelling clichés was hired to communicate with the nation from its highest podium.”

• What's With Baum?

  a Novel

  Allen, Woody, 1935-

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  "What’s with Baum? is an absolute failure of noticing. Place Allen in any room, he’ll see less than anyone else.”

• The Technological Republic

  Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

  Karp, Alexander C. • Zamiska, Nicholas W.

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  "At times I approached the book, perhaps to preserve my own psychic integrity, as an avant-garde exercise in narrative unreliability."

• The Land of Sweet Forever

  Stories and Essays

  Lee, Harper

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  "A rejection letter from the New Yorker was discovered among Lee’s manuscripts. I’m not surprised. Reading these fragmentary pieces of juvenile fiction is a little like hearing a young pianist play scales: ask yourself if that is a pastime you’d…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summer of Our Discontent

  the Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

  Williams, Thomas Chatterton, 1981-

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  "His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions.”

• Next to Heaven

  Frey, James

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  "While reading Next to Heaven, I sometimes thought I could feel individual cells in my body trying to die.”

• Unfettered

  Fetterman, John

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  "He has no political future, but the rest of us are stuck with him for three more years. There is no audience for Unfettered, and I do not think Crown will get its money’s worth on this memoir … Unfettered is boring."

• Atmosphere

  a Love Story

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins

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  "When I interviewed Reid in 2022, she told me that ‘fun is not antithetical to substance.’ In Atmosphere, just to make sure, she gives us neither.”

• 107 Days

  Harris, Kamala, 1964-

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  "The entire premise of the book is a revealing self-deception: that Washington’s personality politics is what determines elections—never mind the economy or, for that matter, the voters."