Parul Sehgal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Parul Sehgal is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Staff writer, @newyorker. Formerly, book critic @nytimesbooks

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Amia Srinivasan
Can't recommend @amiasrinivasan's new book, The Right to Sex (out in Sept.), highly enough https://t.co/VkQErQi9gi
Paperback, 2022
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A Burning: A Read with Jenna Pick
Megha Majumdar
When it comes to watching writers metabolize “this moment,” I was impressed by Megha Majumdar’s novel “A Burning,” on rising extremism in India.
Paperback, 2021
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Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore: Introduction by Lauren Groff
Lorrie Moore
She offers her own decorous, deeply accommodating approach as an alternative model.
Hardcover, 2020
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
It's a book that changes people, it moves them. You have a spiritual experience reading this book... These are scientific essays... There are also meditation on our relationship with the natural world and they draw heavily on Native American teachings handed down from generation to generation.
Paperback, 2015
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Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
There is a widespread expectation that beneath silence pulses a story waiting to be told. Suffering must be spoken, we are urged. It has to be coaxed out, in anguished detail, and held in the light. But in these works, where we anticipate testimony, we receive ceremony instead.
Hardcover, 2024
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Lorrie Moore
In the death-defying “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” she assembles her puns and her false mustaches, readies her troupe, and finds a way to rewrite the most inexorably linear story of all. Moore’s “radiant turbulence” will…beckon. You have to stick around for the show.
Paperback, 2024
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