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The Rise of the Airline Stewardess
The iconic air hostess was also a trailblazer for feminist ideals.
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Little Girl, Big City
A vibrant and whimsical all-ages adventure from an ambitious new cartoonist.
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Thesis Hatement
Getting a literature Ph.D. will turn you into an emotional trainwreck, not a professor.
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Matilda at 25
Roald Dahl’s bookish heroine is still an inspiration to the quiet girls.
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I Read Everything Jane Austen Wrote, Several Times
Here are some of the many things I learned.
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Partial Magic in Pat the Bunny
Grappling with the horror of infinite mammal regression.
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The Story of My Solipsism
It’s hard to like the book when you despise the narrator.
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Wool, Gathering
How self-pubbed best-seller Hugh Howey overturned the author-reader relationship—and wrote the next great sci-fi saga.
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On a Mission From God
Two works of fiction tell the stories of Mormon missionaries far away from home.
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The Book-Writing Machine
What was the first novel ever written on a word processor?
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Is That My Mother on the Phone?
In Domenica Ruta’s memoir of growing up on Massachusetts’ North Shore, quitting drugs is easier than quitting her astonishing mother.
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Highbrow Trash
A harsh, politically aware comic from the late artist David Wojnarowicz returns.
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Updates on Mary
Mary Szybist’s poems long for God, and treat her own longing with scorn.
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Announcing the Winners of the Cartoonist Studio Prize
Here’s to the best graphic novel and Web comic of 2012.
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Farewell to Patti
A touching and beautiful goodbye, in watercolor, from a husband to his wife.
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The Audio Book Club on Arcadia
Our critics take on Lauren Groff’s novel about a 1970s commune and its aftermath.
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Bao Wow Wow Yippee Yo Yippee Yay
Eddie Huang and the rise of the “big dick Asian.”
