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"As Black capitalism is offered up yet again as a viable antiracist political strategy, the life of Ray Carney recalls Baldwin’s insistence that such a politics...isolates Black people from the community that sustains them." @omweekes reads HARLEM SHUFFLE:https://bit.ly/3hECZBB

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"This is in some sense the anxiety that haunts EITHER/OR: Batuman is demonstrably, incontrovertibly a good writer—but is she a good novelist? (And what is a good novel anyway?)" @rmpanovka on Elif Batuman's latest (@penguinpress): https://bit.ly/3taPfzo

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Susanna Clarke's PIRANESI (@BloomsburyPub) "is a work of voluptuous amnesia, in which history and character have been effaced. Texts are written and forgotten; startling messages appear, communications from somewhere beyond." Ed Park on the best-seller: https://t.co/SIgpLWPF8o

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"The best book covers are ones that hold something back, requiring you to finish reading before the jacket’s significance can be fully understood." @monicacarmella considers Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth's THE LOOK OF THE BOOK (@TenSpeedPress): https://t.co/lvFOd0FMPS https://t.co/ZYLfSHSd9i

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"Satire to me is a lesson, you know, whereas parody is a game. And BAD EMINENCE is more like a game to me." Online now, James Greer discusses his latest novel (@andothertweets), caricature, nouveau roman writers, and more with Scott Indrisek: https://t.co/HIx1pUShTn

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"Speaking directly to the issue of the moment: I have encountered a regular profusion of certain unidentified roses, growing to no discernible purpose" Online now, read two poems collected in THE ESSENTIAL JUNE JORDAN (@CopperCanyonPrs): https://t.co/BKC7RCViSw

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"She is not an interpreter or a judge. She is an equal, and so readers become peers, too." @CharoShane reviews @RachelAviv’s debut book, STRANGERS TO OURSELVES (@fsgbooks), which explores psychiatry and the self: https://t.co/goIRG987QB

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"The formula of the English novel, in her hands, feels fresh and surprising." In our spring issue, @cejarvis reviews FREE LOVE (@harperbooks), Tessa Hadley's novel of sexual revolution in 1960s London: https://t.co/7awb5aXeBj

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"Can 'ordinary love' present without its opposite also materializing at times? What vagaries underlie an 'unremarkable' life?" In our spring issue, @sarasara_sck reviews Sarah Manguso's debut novel, VERY COLD PEOPLE (@HogarthBooks): https://bit.ly/3sFRbA3

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"The muddy confluence of dissipating counterculture and disintegrating liberal religion, fixed in Chicagoland’s forbidding atmosphere, turns out to be the ideal site to summon God and Satan as supporting characters." @frankophilia on Franzen's CROSSROADS: https://bit.ly/3DTEAg8