365 Books: You’ll Thank Me for This by Nina Siegal

So, when Americans think of the Netherlands, we don't think of forests. (In fact, when I got ready to write about this book, I remember it as having been set in Norway. Oops.) We think of windmills and Amsterdam and flat flood plains. We don't think about forests. But apparently - according to this novel …

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365 Books: Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

The NYT Sunday Magazine recently featured an interview with a woman who said she was a sociopath. Suddenly my feeds were full of articles about how women could be psychopaths, too, and were they worse than male psychopaths, and female serial killer, and all sorts of messy thinking on this topic, masquerading as news and …

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365 Books: The Decline & Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy

Do you like footnotes? I am, if you had not already noticed, partial to them. Not just using them (although I am clearly partial to that, too). Some people, when they read non-fiction, finish the meat of the book, maybe read the afterward or those discussion questions that some books include. Perhaps they dive into …

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