Annotate This: On Marginalia
When Shylock gives his celebrated soliloquy—“If you prick us, do we not bleed?”—the previous owner approvingly added in the margins “Bring your own BOOYEA!”
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The Millions Top 10
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel
The Memory Police: A Novel
The Topeka School: A Novel
Inland: A Novel
Ducks, Newburyport
Pieces for the Left Hand: Stories
The Hotel Neversink
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The Testaments: The Sequel to the Handmaid's Tale
The State of #MeToo
Perhaps it’s fair to say that everything I’ve ever written has been a #MeToo piece; I just often didn’t realize it.
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Jenny Offill Exerts Herself
I don’t love the language that’s available to talk about this stuff. If you’re not drawn to earnestness, how do you make yourself a more engaged person?
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I Wake to Bury You Again: Featured Poetry by Cori A. Winrock
Our series of poetry excerpts continues with a poem from Little Envelope of Earth Conditions, the new collection by Cori A. Winrock, whose lines loll with the rhythm of grief.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Wiener, Greenwell, Jin, Hurston, and More
Here’s a quick look at this week's notable books—new titles from the likes of Anna Wiener, Garth Greenwell, Meng Jin, Zora Neale Hurston, and more.
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The Subjective Mood
They tell a story, perhaps tell it well. But I finish the book and close it with no sense of what the book thinks about the story it told.
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The Millions Top Ten: December 2019
Millions staffer Adam O'Fallon Price's novel The Hotel Neversink rose two spots in our Top Ten, and now ranks higher than Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Popkey, Hass, Reid, Palahniuk, and More
Here are this week's notable books, including new titles from the likes of Miranda Popkey, Robert Hass, Kiley Reid, and Chuck Palahniuk.
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Must-Read Poetry: January 2020
Smith’s lines will hypnotize you, but also wake you, as in: “i’m waiting for a few folks // i love dearly to die so i can be myself. / please don’t make me say who.”
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