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Recent Contributions

  • Sarah Manguso considers deprivations and predations in her novel 'Very Cold People'
  • With four kids in an old Studebaker, Amor Towles takes readers on a real joyride
  • In 'Today A Woman Went Mad In The Supermarket,' it's the details that really get you
  • Farmer offers stark time-lapse portrait of his family's land over a lifetime
  • 'Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light' is a baker's dozen of sharply funny essays
  • Compassion is the true test of a person in 'Second Place'
  • Jhumpa Lahiri's new 'Whereabouts' is about places both geographical and emotional
  • 'The Souvenir Museum' is an exhibit to savor
  • 'First Person Singular' asks a lot of questions — but shies away from answers
  • You actually will be talking about 'No One is Talking About This'