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★★★☆☆ A Life Discarded is the fragmented story of an unremarkable, anonymous life. The mere fact that an author deemed this saga worth telling is itself curious. In Cambridge, England, biographer Alexander Masters came...
★★★★☆ Teddy Wayne’s third novel Loner is a brave and precise portrait of a tense, prevalent subject. As with the opioid epidemic, sexual assault is undoubtedly widespread yet is too often hushed behind closed...
★★★☆☆ No matter their background, at some point just about everyone partakes in heavy philosophical discussion on the nature of time. What is time? How does it work? Is it even real? Einstein’s relativity...
★★★☆☆ Whispers of “literary gimmickry” have followed Jonathan Safran Foer endlessly, involving his choices in narration, typesetting, and vocabulary. Eleven years after his previous novel, we get Here I Am, a comparatively mammoth work...
