Looking for previous issues of the Slate Book Review? Here are links to every issue since our launch in March 2012.

November 2017: Mark O'Connell on British playwright Alan Bennett; Jason Zinoman on Alec Baldwin's satirical Trump memoir; Susan Matthews on two books analyzing Trump's mental health;  Bécquer Seguín on a new Federico García Lorca translation; Laura Miller on impersonal essays; the Audio Book Club on Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach. Illustrations by Natalie Matthews-Ramo.

October 2017: Jamelle Bouie on Ta-Nehisi Coates; David Plotz on Ulysses S. Grant; Katy Waldman on Philip Pullman; Nora Caplan-Bricker on Carmen Maria Machado; Ruth Graham on Ivana Trump's new parenting memoir; Laura Miller on Jennifer Egan; the Audio Book Club on What Happened?. Illustrations by Lisa Larson-Walker.

September 2017: Michelle Goldberg on What Happened; Laura Miller on Freud; Katy Waldman on John Ashbery; Nina Martyris on Salman Rushdie; Katy Waldman on a memoir by a former Obama joke-writer; Ismail Muhammad on Jesmyn Ward; Laura Miller on the new novel of female friendship; the Audio Book Club on Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends. Illustrations by Natalie Matthews-Ramo.

August 2017: Lydia Kiesling on Tom Perrotta; Henry Grabar on Jeremiah Moss's lament for a changing New York City; Jacob Brogan on Matthew Klam; Isaac Butler on an extraordinary Korean comic; Laura Miller on the MFA-ification of the true crime genre; Katy Waldman on Jenny Zhang; the Audio Book Club on Arundhati Roy. Illustrations by Lisa Larson-Walker.

July 2017: Laura Miller on memoirs about dying; Katy Waldman on Sally Rooney; Jacob Mikanowski on George R.R. Martin's obsession with soup; Jacob Brogan on Amatka; Laura Miller on a new book about the diets of notable women; Bécquer Seguín on Antonio Muñoz Molina; Leon Neyfakh on The Chickenshit Club; the Audio Book Club on Maile Meloy. Illustrations by Natalie Matthews-Ramo.

June 2017: Katy Waldman on Roxane Gay; Ismail Muhammad on Teju Cole; Laura Miller on Sherman Alexie and the burgeoning genre of mom memoirs; Brian Palmer on a new book about the wild world of sommeliers; Isaac Chotiner interviews Arundhati Roy; Katy Waldman on Chelsea Clinton's children's book; Laura Miller on Al Franken; the Audio Book Club on Too Much and Not the Mood. Illustrations by Lisa Larson-Walker.

May 2017: Tom Drury on David Grann; Laura Miller on how literary fiction became science fiction; Minkah Makalani on a memoir by Trayvon Martin's parents; Katy Waldman on Patricia Lockwood; Michelle Goldberg on Laura Kipnis; Laura Miller on Doug Coupland and what happens to a voice-of-a-generation when his generation no longer needs him; the Audio Book Club on The Handmaid's Tale. Illustrations by Sam Octigan.

April 2017: Laura Miller on the heirs to Emily Post's etiquette empire; Katy Waldman on a new anthology about female ambition; Ismail Muhammad on Durga Chew-Bose; Jacob Brogan on a bleak, brilliant comic book reboot of the Flintstones; Henry Grabar on urbanist Richard Florida; Michelle Goldberg on Ariel Levy; the Audio Book Club on George Saunders. Illustrations by Natalie Matthews-Ramo.

March 2017: Isaac Chotiner on Mohsin Hamid; Nora Caplan-Bricker on Rebecca Solnit; Katy Waldman on Elif Batuman; Laura Miller on how Casablanca lost its hold on movie lovers; Jacob Brogan on John Darnielle; the Senate Torture Report in graphic novel form;  the Audio Book Club on Zadie Smith's Swing Time. Illustrations by Benjamin Frisch.

February 2017: Katy Waldman on sensitivity readers; Ismail Muhammad on the misunderstood ghost of James Baldwin; Jamelle Bouie on Jonathan Chait; Jonathan Fischer on Peter Thiel; Laura Miller on George Saunders; Diamond Sharp on Kathleen Collins; Ruth Graham on the end of library fines; the Audio Book Club on the lyrics of Bob Dylan. Illustrations by Adi Embers.

January 2017: Justin Peters on Tom Friedman; Aymann Ismail on Letters to a Young Muslim; Katy Waldman on Rachel Cusk; Laura Miller on writers and money; Lydia Kiesling on Paul Auster; Ardo Omer on a comic book adaptation of Octavia Butler's Kindred; a debate about Milo Yiannopoulos' book deal; the Audio Book Club on Carrie Fisher's Postcards From the Edge. Illustrations by Maddie Edgar.

December 2016: Katy Waldman on Michael Chabon; Isaac Chotiner on Megyn Kelly; Jeremy Stahl on a new oral history of The Daily Show; Isaac Butler on the history of the fight against AIDS; Laura Miller, Mark O'Connell, and Katy Waldman's 10 favorite books of 2016; the Audio Book Club on Moonglow. Illustrations by Lars Martinson.

November 2016: Laura Miller on Zadie Smith and Island of the Blue Dolphins; Isaac Butler on Prince Hal and Alexander Hamilton; Mark O'Connell on The Moth Snowstorm; Katy Waldman on Marni Jackson; Nora Caplan-Bricker on Against Everything; the Audio Book Club on Colson Whitehead and Ben Winters. Illustrations by Simon Roy.

October 2016: The funniest living writers choose the funniest books; a final conversation with the poet Max Ritvo; Colin Dickey on McMansions and haunted houses; Mark O'Connell on time travel; Laura Miller on Shirley Jackson; Rebecca Onion on David Macaulay; the Audio Book Club on Shrill. Illustrations by John Martz.

September 2016: Laura Miller in praise of reader reviews; Carl Wilson on Springsteen; Margaret Atwood on her new comic; Katy Waldman on Nadja Spiegelman; a Q&A with Ann Patchett; Willa Paskin on Clive James; Nicole Cliffe on John le Carré; the Audio Book Club on The Girls. Illustrations by Luke Howard.

August 2016: Special monthlong children's book blog, Nightlight! Plus: Laura Miller on The Underground Railroad; Dan Kois (and the Audio Book Club) on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Illustrations by Tina Kügler.
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July 2016: Daniel Engber on Jonah Lehrer; Katy Waldman on Heather Havrilesky; Laura Miller on Underground Airlines; Rebecca Schuman on The End of the Perfect 10; John Martz on Richard Thompson; Rebecca Onion on the Uncle Tom's Cabin of gun control; the Audio Book Club on All the Single Ladies. Illustrations by Sonny Liew.
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June 2016: Angels in America: the complete oral history; Katy Waldman on Emma Straub; Christina Cauterucci on Amy Rose Spiegel; Laura Miller on The Girls and Susan Faludi; Mark O'Connell on Virginia Heffernan; Laura Hudson on Paper Girls; Lydia Millett and Jenny Offill in conversation; the Audio Book Club on Eligible. Illustrations by Matt Cummings.
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May 2016: Daniel Engber on Grit; Laura Miller on allegory and on Whit Stillman; Alexandra Coakley on So Sad Today; Willa Paskin on motherhood and writing; Mark O'Connell on Don DeLillo; Dan Kois on Katherine Dunn; the Audio Book Club on Lab Girl. Illustrations by Mike Dawson.
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April 2016: Laura Miller on memoirs of friendship; Mark O'Connell on pretentiousness; Glen Weldon on the gay subtext of Batman and Robin; Katy Waldman on Sallie Tisdale; Diane McWhorter on Harper Lee; Sharan Shetty on The Association of Small Bombs; Jack Hamilton on the NBA and teen labor; Ruth Graham on dummies; the winners of the Cartoonist Studio Prize; the Audio Book Club on When Breath Becomes Air. Illustrations by Jordan Crane.
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March 2016: Laura Miller on Dana Spiotta and Karen Hall's second chance; Colson Whitehead on Mark Beyer; Caroline Fraser on Laura Ingalls Wilder's letters; Matthew Lysiak on Sue Klebold; Jacob Brogan on Daniel Clowes; Katy Waldman on Joyce Maynard; the shortlists for the Cartoonist Studio Prize; the Audio Book Club on A.O Scott. Illustrations by Nick Hayes.
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February 2016: A review of Better Living Through Criticism and an interview with A.O. Scott; a review of The Queen of the Night and an interview with Alexander Chee; Sophie Nguyen on Games Wizards Play; Laura Miller on Han Kang; Katy Waldman on book trailers; the Audio Book Club on Lucia Berlin. Illustrations by Nick Drnaso.
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January 2016: Laura Miller on Marie Kondo and Diana Athill; Katy Waldman on book trailers; Jacob Brogan on China Miéville; Amanda Hess on beards; Isaac Butler on The Shakespeare Circle; Anna Reisman on Paul Kalanithi; Jonathan Farmer on Shane McCrae. Illustrations by Ozge Samanci.
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December 2015: Best books of the year from Laura Miller and Katy Waldman; Mark O'Connell on Terry Southern; Laura Miller on Bill O'Reilly; Katy Waldman on The Brothers Vonnegut; Ann Fernald on Margaret Wise Brown and Gertrude Stein; Jacob Brogan on John Berger; the best lines, overlooked books, and audiobooks; the Audio Book Club on Fates and Furies. Illustrations by Emily Flake.
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November 2015: Laura Miller on Paul Murray and Stacy Schiff; Q&As with Sarah Vowell and Phillip Pullman; Tammy Oler on Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy; Elliott Holt on Mary Gaitskill; Jason Zinoman on Michael Riedel; Fred Kaplan on Beatlebone; Eric Herschthal on These United States; the Audio Book Club on A Llittle Life. Illustrations by Andrew DeGraff.
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October 2015: Laura Miller on Mary Karr, Larissa MacFarquhar, and Neil Strauss; Dan Kois on The Martian; Katy Waldman on Sloane Crosley; Noah Berlatsky on Jojo Moyes; Lydia Kiesling on Michel Houellebecq; Lauren O'Neal on Claire Vaye Watkins; Ruth Graham on Banned Books Week; the Audio Book Club on The Martian. Illustrations by MK Reed.
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September 2015: Laura Miller on Jonathan Franzen, Elena Ferrante, and Lauren Groff; Margaret Atwood on Chocky; Choire Sicha on Joy Williams; Karina Longworth on Sue Mengers; Jacob Brogan on Ursula Le Guin; Jonathan Farmer on Mark Doty; Katherine Dunn on Fat City; Gabriel Roth on superhero comics for kids; the Audio Book Club on Between the World and Me. Illustrations by Drew Weing.
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August 2015: Jeff VanDerMeer on Claire Lispector; Laura Miller on Phoebe Gloeckner and The Diary of a Teenage Girl; Karen Russell and Helen Phillips discuss The Beautiful Bureaucrat; John McWhorter on Matthew Battles; Amanda Hess on redheads; the Audio Book Club on Go Set a Watchman. Illustrations by Ed Luce.
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July 2015: Kevin Young on Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman; Jack Hamilton on Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me; Laura Hudson on Ernest Cline; Jonathan Farmer on Colm Toibin; Jenny Hendrix on Book of Numbers; Ashley Ford on Karolina Waclawiak; the Audio Book Club on Station Eleven. Illustrations by Ethan Rilly.
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June 2015: Amanda Hess on Aziz Ansari; Kij Johnson on The Vorrh; Mac Rogers on Naomi Novik; Gabriel Roth on canonical lousy children's books; a short story by Lynda Barry; Lydia Kiesling on The Ghost Network; the Audio Book Club on All the Light We Cannot See. Illustrations by Kevin Cannon.
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May 2015: Dan Kois on Shirley Jackson's parenting books; Gabriel Roth on children's books about death; Laura Bennett on Kim Kardashian's Selfish; Katy Waldman on Kate Atkinson; Jenny Hendrix on Werner Herzog's long walk; June Thomas on stationery; Stacia Brown on Ordinary Light; the Audio Book Club on H Is for Hawk. Illustrations by Fumio Obata.
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April 2015: Jacob Silverman on So You've Been Publicly Shamed; Jacob Brogan on Jacob Silverman; Mark Joseph Stern on the Supreme Court; Ruth Graham on absolution; Miriam Krule on copy editing; Laura Kipnis on Spinster; Katy Waldman on Clive James; the Audio Book Club on How to Be Both. Illustrations by Ken Niimura.
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March 2015: Katy Waldman on H Is for Hawk; Mark O'Connell on Kazuo Ishiguro; Dana Stevens on Robert Christgau; Geeta Dayal on Kim Gordon; Elliott Holt on shame and Tess of the D'Urbervilles; an author-editor conversation between Hanya Yanagihira and Gerry Howard; the Audio Book Club on The Girl on the Train. Illustrations by Roman Muradov.
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February 2015: Meghan O'Rourke on Rachel Cusk; Ron Rosenbaum on Sofia Tolstoy; Dan Kois interviews Nick Hornby; Britt Peterson on the sordid history of Monopoly; Katy Waldman on lying; Jonathan Farmer on Amanda Ossip; Alexandra Coakley on Amanda Filipacchi; the Audio Book Club on Phil Klay. Illustrations by Andi Watson.
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January 2015: Leslie Jamison on Walt Whitman; Karina Longworth on Miranda July; Elbert Ventura on Patton Oswalt; Ruth Graham on Love Languages; Stephen Burt on Astro City; Evan Kindley on Culture Crash; Daniel Menaker in praise of publishing's gatekeepers; the Audio Book Club on Elena Ferrante. Illustrations by Jon Chadurjian.
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December 2014: Colson Whitehead, Yiyun Li, Dan Kois, Sasha Weiss, and Sarah McNally on the five novels of the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List; Aklhil Sharma, Marlon James, Eileen Myles, Helen DeWitt, and Daniel Alarcon on how they wrote their second novels; the best books of 2014; Katy Waldman on Meghan Daum; Daniel Engber on beards; Michelle Orange on Screenplay; the Audio Book Club on Karen Joy Fowler. Illustrations by Jen Wang.
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November 2014: Ruth Graham on Laura Ingalls Wilder; Katy Waldman on Chicken Soup for the Soul; Blake Bailey on Anthony Powell; Alexander Chee on Penelope Fitzgerald; Jonathan Farmer on Philip Larkin; Michelle Dean on Peggy Lee; Glen Weldon on Wonder Woman; Amanda Hess on Amy Poehler; the Audio Book Club on The Magician's Land. Illustrations by Cece Bell.
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October 2014: Carl Wilson on John Darnielle; John Dickerson on Matt Bai; Mark O'Connell on Martin Amis and Eula Biss; Katy Waldman on comics and mental illness; Tammy Oler on Tana French; Dan Kois on The Flick and the pleasure of reading plays; Eric Schulmiller on the history of Lucy pulling the football away; the Audio Book Club on Wild. Illustrations by Alec Longstreth.
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September 2014: David Plotz on David Mitchell; Gabriel Roth on Ben Lerner; Stephen Burt on the 33 1/3 series; Carl Wilson on Greil Marcus; Amanda Katz on Sarah Waters; Tara Ariano on Nev Schulman; Jenny Hendrix on Eimar McBride; Katy Waldman on Daphne Merkin; Emily Bazelon on teens and sex; the Audio Book Club on Roxane Gay. Illustrations by Emily Carroll.
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August 2014: A ghost story from Haruki Murakami; Choire Sicha on The Magicians; Rebecca Schuman on Dear Committee Members; Katy Waldman on Roxane Gay; David Weigel on Rick Perlstein; Seth Stevenson on the metric system; Mark Stern on fat gay men; the Audio Book Club discusses Roz Chast. Illustrations by Sam Alden.
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July 2014: Karina Longworth on Hollywood and women; Phyllis Rose on writing and women; Amanda Hess on André the Giant; Cate Fricke on Geoff Ryman's Was; Michael Robbins on atheism; Mark O'Connell on Édouard Levé; a Q&A with Bryan Lee O'Malley; the Audio Book Club discusses My Struggle. Illustrations by Eleanor Davis.
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June 2014: Ruth Graham's "Against YA"; Mark O'Connell on Geoff Dyer; Jonathan Farmer on Patricia Lockwood; Christian Lorentzen on My Struggle; Adam Sternbergh on Megan Abbott; Lara Zarum on Showgirls; Keith Pille on Tom Robbins; the Audio Book Club discusses Americanah. Illustrations by Liana Finck.
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May 2014: Mark O'Connell on Dublin and Dubliners; Emily Bazelon on Glenn Greenwald; John Dickerson on Dylanologists; Amanda Hess on Asa Akira; Tammy Oler on Clan of the Cave Bear; Geeta Dayal on pranksters; Dan Kois on Sex Criminals; an author-editor conversation between Joshua Ferris and Reagan Arthur; Rachael Maddux on Susan Orlean's forgotten diet book (!). Illustrations by Chip Zdarsky.
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April 2014: Felix Salmon on Michael Lewis; Mark O'Connell on Teju Cole and Leslie Jamison; Rebecca Onion on smartphone sci-fi; Jonathan Farmer on Christian poetry; Katy Waldman on war poetry; Hanna Rosin on Barbara Ehrenreich; Adrian Mole says goodbye to Sue Townsend; Tammy Oler on Captain Marvel. Illustrations by Rem Broo.
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March 2014: Michael Robbins on the joy of black metal; Dan Kois on being frustrated by Lorrie Moore; Alexander Chee on Clifford Chase; Aisha Harris on Five Came Back; Amity Gaige on Walter Kirn's Clark Rockefeller memoir; David Auerbach on the return of Plato; Victor LaValle on Shirley Jackson; Heather Havrilesky on Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Hugh Howey joins the Audio Book Club for a discussion of Vonnegut. Illustrations by Danica Novgorodoff.
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February 2014: Wilton Barnhardt on Elizabeth Spencer; A.N. Devers on Rebecca Mead and George Eliot; Dan Kois on Michel Rabagliati; Aileen Gallagher on All Joy and No Fun; Mark O'Connell on W.G. Sebald; Jennifer McDonald on Diane Johnson; the Cartoonist Studio Prize shortlist; Daria Rothmayr on the flaw at the heart of Amy Chua's The Triple Package; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Elizabeth Kolbert and Gillian Blake. llustrations by Gustavo Duarte.
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January 2014: Troy Patterson drinks vodka with Gary Shteyngart; Mark O'Connell on Chang-rae Lee; Rebecca Schuman on Kafka; Tammy Oler on Flowers in the Attic; Hugh Howey on writing Vonnegut fanfiction; Rosie Schaap on The Trip to Echo Spring; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Adam Sternbergh and Zack Wagman. Illustrations by Matthew Roberts.
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December 2013: The best books, lines, and poets of 2013; Dave Bry on Ted Williams; Nicholas Lund on birding field guides; Mark O'Connell on The Encyclopedia of Early Earth; Ruth Graham on lying down; Jessica Roake on the foolishness of teaching The Help as civil rights history; the Audio Book Club discusses The Goldfinch. Illustrations by Frederik Peeters.
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November 2013: Mark O'Connell on Susan Sontag; Marian Ryan on Flannery O'Connor; Jennifer Szalai on Marianne Moore; Joe Sacco annotates The Great War; Ben Davis review Deborah Solomon's biography of Norman Rockwell; Michelle Orange on Barbara Stanwyck; Parul Sehgal on Jonathan Franzen's first novel. Illustrations by Greg Ruth.
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October 2013: The SBR author-editor conversation, with Donna Tartt and Michael Pietsch; Jenny Hendrix on The Luminaries; Jessica Winter on Morrissey's Autobiography; Cate Fricke on Fairyland; Kim O'Connor on Rookie magazine; Seth Stevenson on Donald Fagen; Karina Longworth on James Franco; Joseph Thomas on why the Shel Silverstein estate won't let his biography of Shel Silverstein see the light of day. Illustrations by Peter Bagge.
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September 2013: Christpher Beha on the Times Book Review and pop fiction; Troy Patterson on Thomas Pynchon; Dahlia Lithwick on Israel; David Mitchell on autism; Kriston Capps on novels of Texas secession; Mark O'Connell on Marisha Pessl; Nicholas Lund on loving birds; the Audio Book Club reads The Flamethrowers; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Norman Rush and Ann Close. Illustrations by Dalton Rose.
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August 2013: Paul Murray on a vibrant new Irish novel about high finance; Allison Hallett on a Kickstarter book success; Hanna Rosin on The Art of Sleeping Alone; David Foster Wallace's book about hip-hop; Dan Kois's mass-market marathon; the untold story of Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Choire Sicha and Barry Harbaugh. Illustrations by Nate Powell.
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July 2013: L.V. Anderson on Nathaniel P.; Seth Stevenson on logos; Roger Ebert's lost book; Katy Waldman on Curtis Sittenfeld; Ed Park on Russell Hoban; Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell on maternity wear; Curtis White responds to Mark O'Connell's review; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Jincy Willett and Thomas Dunne. Illustrations by Jeff Zwirek.
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June 2013: Parul Sehgal on female desire; Paul Ford on Time Warped; Patrick Bateman reviews a book on sociopaths; Michelle Orange on Marie Calloway; Chuck Leung on Tao Lin; Jonathan Farmer on Frank Bidart's poems; Mark O'Connell on Curtis White; Jennifer Weiner on likeable characters; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Sarah Dessen and Regina Hayes. Illustrations by Jess Fink.
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May 2013: Will Oremus on Jaron Lanier; L.V. Anderson on foodies; Troy Patterson on Eve Ensler; Patti Smith on the novel she's carried with her for her whole career; Annalee Newirtz on Nathaniel Rich; Choire Sicha on Henry James; Alice Gregory on the career of Janet Malcolm; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Claire Messud and Robin Desser. Illustrations by Lisa Hanawalt.
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April 2013: Dan Engber on dog books vs. cat books; Rebecca Schuman on why you should never get a lit Ph.D.; Rebecca Onion on eggheads; Hua Hsu on H.T. Tsiang's lost novel; Scott Korb on baseball and faith; Chelsey Philopt on Matilda at 25; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Meg Wolitzer and Sarah McGrath. Illustrations by Luke Pearson.
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March 2013: Heather Havrilesky on Sam Lipsyte; Ed Park on The Runaway Bunny; Tammy Oler on Wool; Matthew Kirschenbaum on the first novel ever written on a word processor; Jillian Goodman on Michelle Orange; John Swansburg on Domenica Ruta's memoir; the winners of the Cartoonist Studio Prize; the SBR author-editor conversation, with Amity Gaige and Cary Goldstein. Illustrations by Danny Gregory.
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February 2013: Anne Ishii on Eddie Huang; Geeta Dayal on phone phreakers; Molly Fischer on James Lasdun's stalking memoir; Mark O'Connell on Adam Phillips; Allison Benedikt on how to get married; Seth Stevenson on how to date; Rachel Syme and Simon Akam on the perfect literary babes. Illustrations by Mike Norton.
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January 2013: Mark O'Connell on the worst novelist in history; Troy Patterson on the meowmoir; Aileen Gallagher on Rosie Schaap; Hanna Rosin on The Feminist and the Cowboy; John Lingan on Song of the South; Maura Johnston on Dick Wolf; Seth Stevenson on fonts; the SBR author-editor conversation, with George Saunders and Andy Ward. Illustrations by Nicole Georges.
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December 2012: The best books of 2012; Julia Turner on whether handwriting is worth saving; Geeta Dayal on programming; Paul Ford on the Authentocracy; Chris Gethard on the Smiths; Jenny Hendrix on Evelyn Waugh; Hua Hsu on why we call everything "interesting"; a term paper assignment from Kurt Vonnegut. Illustrations by Lilli Carré.
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November 2012: Choire Sicha on Ursula K. Le Guin; Michelle Dean on Barbara Kingsolver; Dahlia Lithwick on William Rehnquist; Mark O’Connell on James Wood; Jessica Roake suggests a replacement for Catcher in the Rye; Dan Kois reviews a 1997 Clueless spin-off novel. Illustrations by Noah Van Sciver.
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October 2012: Matthew Yglesias on Nate Silver; Doree Shafrir on the death of pets; Simon Reynolds on culture's remix obsession; Noah Gallagher Shannon on Cormac McCarthy's first drafts; Dan Savage on Merle Miller; Dan Kois on The Casual Vacancy; Alex Balk on being an asshole. Illustrations by Laura Terry.
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September 2012: Mark O'Connell on D.T. Max's DFW bio; Karina Longworth on Ellen Willis; Troy Patterson on Michael Chabon; Jessica Pressler on Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy; Emily Bazelon on Jonathan Kozol; Dan Kois on football books. Illustrations by Bianca Stone.
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August 2012: Jacob Silverman on critics and Twitter; Troy Patterson on stop-smoking books; Emily Yoffe on teens and sex; John Lingan on Elvis Costello's hidden memoir; Patricia Lockwood writes a poem about slam-dunking. Illustrations by Sean Ford.
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July 2012: Michelle Dean on Sheila Heti; Campbell Robertson on Joe Sacco; Emily Yoffe on Gigi Levangie Grazer; Uzodmina Iweala on Kojo Laing; the Audio Book Club reads Fifty Shades of Grey. Illustrations by Matt Kindt.
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June 2012: Fred Kaplan on Robert Caro; Dan Kois on John Lanchester; Sady Doyle on Looking for Mr. Goodbar; Farhad Manjoo on iPad apps for kids; Moe Tkacik on Washington Mutual. Illustrations by Dan Zettwoch.
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May 2012: Lindy West on Breasts: A History; Choire Sicha on Gideon Lewis-Kraus and Tom Bissell; Meghan O’Rourke on Allison Bechdel; William Georgiades on Hillary Mantel; Dan Kois on a self-published novel of an epically bad love affair. Illustrations by Nick Pitarra.
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April 2012: Jennifer Szalai on sex and the office; Dave Tompkins on Bell Labs; Emily Bazelon on Rachel Maddow; Art Spiegelman on Garbage Pail Kids; Joseph O’Neill on Nescio. Illustrations by Pat Grant.
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March 2012: Debut issue! Allison Benedikt on What to Expect When You’re Expecting; Paul Ford on Why Have Children?; Melanie Rehak on Cheryl Strayed; Troy Patterson on John Leonard; David Plotz on Elephant and Piggie. Illustrations by Derf Backderf.