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June 2012
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Pros and Cons
The strivers and schemers and wankers and winners of John Lanchester’s Capital.
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The New Handmaids
The future of reproductive rights, as seen in three young adult novels.
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Is Gay Good?
Linda Hirshman’s history of gay rights argues that the moral battle has been won.
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Kill Me Maybe
1975’s Looking for Mr. Goodbar and the never-ending panic over young women and casual sex.
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The iPad of Babel
Tablet apps for kids make what once were books into something interactive, mind-bending—and not necessarily better.
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I Like Big Bucks and I Cannot Lie
Inside the terrible variety show that was Washington Mutual.
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The Android Head of Philip K. Dick
The unlikely story of the sci-fi author’s “robotic resurrection.”
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What Will Be
Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, a sci-fi novel so brilliant, it reads like an account of the past.
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Clotted Cream
Christopher Hayes on America’s distrust of elites and the fall of the meritocracy.
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No More Drama?
On Denis Johnson’s Two Plays, and why plays get published in book form at all.
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The Snow Is Still in Beta
Engine Empire, a remarkable book of poetry about the speed at which we’re rushing toward the future.
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All About the Love
In Bunch of Amateurs, tinkerers, putterers, and ham-radio enthusiasts can change the world.
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The Audio Book Club on Are You My Mother?
Our critics on cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s follow-up to Fun Home.
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How To Make Anything Out of a 3-Liter Bottle
A charming new graphic novel about a slow-moving small-town summer.
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What Robert Caro Got Wrong
He is one of our greatest historians. So why is his retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis so mistaken?
