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March 13, 2025The heroine of Karen Russell’s new novel, The Antidote—her second—is a plucky teenage girl intent on excelling at a practice typically reserved for boys. This...
February 6, 2025“The worst is not. So long as we can say ‘This is the worst,’ ” go the lines from King Lear quoted in Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven....
January 10, 2025For most of my adult life, I was a binge cleaner. I lived in small apartments in big cities where I rarely entertained anyone—not when there were countless fun places to eat...
