Slate Book Review

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[Dan Kois @dankois]

I wrote about Tomáš Sträussler, Tom Stoppard, "blank Czech," who only discovered his Jewishness late in life -- but whose plays have always been obsessed with ellipses in the record. On a new bio by Hermione Lee: https://t.co/1ceBwMwEPQ

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Tom Stoppard: A Life scours the playwright’s work in search of the man behind it. https://t.co/EdxV9cZ2RF

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As conspiracy theories go, the Gnomon Society is pretty silly. But it can teach us a lot about delusion—and comedy. https://t.co/c5n692bI2x

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Ernest Cline accidentally nails everything wrong with the tech industry without seeming to realize his hero has become a villain. https://t.co/I6RVwdPZSV

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The latest novel from the author of the Shades of Magic series already has a movie adaptation in the works. https://t.co/v2hOpuHpnk

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Podcasts, book groups, and individuals are looking to Octavia Butler’s books not just for comfort but for answers. https://t.co/bngyAx4yft

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Here’s why so many recent best-sellers look like they were designed for the First Order. https://t.co/V6dXqbxhHA

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The new Elena Ferrante returns to the true theme of the Neapolitan novels. https://t.co/PbRljYdPJR

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Our greatest writer about nature’s everyday mysteries is back. https://t.co/lN5ZeQ6hBo

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New York City is more or less the same in Talking Animals—except that humans aren’t running the show. https://t.co/Zmmysfyeyt

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It’s easy to understand why Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman would want to smooth the rougher edges of some of their stories. https://t.co/B2Ki8j3owR

[Jack Hamilton @jack_hamilton]

for @slate I reviewed rick perlstein's REAGANLAND, the final volume of his incredible history of post-war american conservatism https://t.co/Clr7phyqJa

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The final chapter in one of our great tetralogies is here. https://t.co/KKUnSIizjx

[willy 🌜💧 @willystaley]

I reviewed Colin Jost's memoir, A Very Punchable Face, for Slate: https://t.co/EAO8lB5soK

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Remember that project you were going to do during quarantine? Zadie Smith already finished hers. https://t.co/YvUppHUMbZ

[Dan Kois @dankois]

What page of "Antkind" did YOU get to? I got to page 87. Bless @magiciansbook for reading the whole thing https://t.co/z1EUz9RHNb

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The brilliant screenwriter behind Eternal Sunshine and Being John Malkovich just wrote his first book. It’s a mess. https://t.co/6Ka4ARftd2

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The book is as interested in how people related to their stinky surroundings as it is in the odors themselves. https://t.co/w52R1LhqVy

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How Tracy Sherrod came to lead America’s oldest Black publishing imprint. https://t.co/QC6zpSerrJ

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David Mitchell’s new book shows his writing is most magical when he focuses on the everyday. https://t.co/omequwug3v