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

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Book Cover for: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, Amia Srinivasan

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Amia Srinivasan
Parul SehgalParul Sehgal

Can't recommend @amiasrinivasan's new book, The Right to Sex (out in Sept.), highly enough https://t.co/VkQErQi9gi

Paperback, 2022

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Burning: A Read with Jenna Pick, Megha Majumdar

A Burning: A Read with Jenna Pick

Megha Majumdar
Parul SehgalParul Sehgal

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

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore: Introduction by Lauren Groff, Lorrie Moore

Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore: Introduction by Lauren Groff

Lorrie Moore
Parul SehgalParul Sehgal

She offers her own decorous, deeply accommodating approach as an alternative model.

Hardcover, 2020

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer
Parul SehgalParul Sehgal

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

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange
Parul SehgalParul Sehgal

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

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, Lorrie Moore

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore
Parul SehgalParul Sehgal

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.

Hardcover, 2023

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book