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In which I review Maggie O'Farrell's absorbing, atmospheric new novel, "The Marriage Portrait," for @OprahDaily. Just out from @AAKnopf. https://t.co/t3QYDucUBU

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Kennedy avoids fussy plot twists and decorative language: By going small she goes large ... Wise far beyond its first-book status, Trespasses vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident Kevin Barry.

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@samhaselby @SWGoldman Y'all don't miss Gary Gerstle's "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order" just out from Oxford University Press.

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Ye nonfiction nerds: don't miss Jackson Lears' wide-ranging history of a single complex idea: "Animal Spirits," just out from @fsgbooks. Here's my review for "On the Seawall." Thanks to @ronslate for the opportunity and @samhaselby for the heads-up. https://t.co/1ejOCir0IV

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Top five nonfiction reads of 2022: Mr. B, Jennifer Homans; The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee; The Revolutionary, Stacy Schiff; Lost & Found, Kathryn Schulz; An Immense World, Ed Yong.

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In which the new @oprahsbookclub selection, Viola Davis's "Finding Me," debuts at #1 on the NYT bestseller list: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/hardcover-nonfiction/

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Russo’s characters are caught in limbo. Scratch their psychic scabs — which he does, again and again — and rage and sorrow spill out... He paints a shining fresco of a working-class community, warts and all, a 30-year project come to fruition in this last, best book.

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We rarely see a novel this assured that centers on disability. “Happiness Falls” dares to unlock the enigma of love at the molecular level while serving up a page-turner.

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“The New Life” is a fine-cut gem, its sentences buffed to a gleam, but with troubling implications for our own reactionary era. Progress ... faces fresh threats... (Crew's) book brims with élan and feeling, an ode to eros and a lost world, and a warning about the dangers ahead.

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A transfixing collage of gorgeous prose and manipulated illustrations, with themes of cultural erasure and the effervescence of lust and love… it's easily 2023's sexiest novel.