Tuesday New Release Day: Smith, Jones, Jemc, Dancyger, Marantz

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Zadie Smith headlines a new week of new books, including essays by angry women and an excellent exploration of the rise of the online alt-right.
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A New Generation of Historical Epics

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Ryan Lenora Brown delves into the ways an exciting new generation of African women writers are taking on the historical epic.
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Jane Eyre Goes Global

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Matthew Reynolds examines how Jane Eyre became a global phenomenon, as well as how translators approach the thoroughly English text.
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To the Far Sector with N.K. Jemisin

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Hugo award-winning sci-fi and fantasy writer N.K. Jemisin discusses scripting the new Green Lantern series, Far Sector, for DC Comics
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Michael Bourne’s ‘The Old Home Place’ Published by Straylight

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The novella The Old Home Place by longtime Millions staffer Michael Bourne offers an intimate look at an ambitious young couple, in love and in trouble, as they grapple with America’s complex racial history.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Winterson, Lerner, Díaz, Walbert, and More

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New Ben Lerner, August Burroughs's latest memoir, and a reimagination of Frankenstein that puts Mary Shelley’s creative process front and center.
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Blurred Life

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Michael Adno examines the unknown life of Zora Neale Hurston, "maybe the most important American writer to have ever lived."
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The Poetic Meter of a Viral Tweet

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Frankie Thomas dissects why her viral tweet, an ode to Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Cohen, and Shakespeare, seemed to speak to our need for poetic meter.
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The Mythical Susan Sontag

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Benjamin Moser's new book, Sontag: Her Life and Work, shows the ways Susan Sontag fled into her own mind to escape an awful reality.
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How Do You Raise a Bookworm?

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Joe Pinkser takes a closer look at how a love of reading is fostered from a young age.
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Milton’s Shakespearean Marginalia

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In a copy of Shakespeare's first folio, researchers found a hand-written annotation by none other than Paradise Lost author John Milton.
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Reading with Augmented Reality

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Thanks to advances being made with augmented reality, readers can soon access a much more enhanced experience.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Cusk, Barry, Eltahawy, Foer, Klein, Kois, and More

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It's blockbuster season, which means new books from big names: Naomi Klein, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jacqueline Woodson, and Tracey Chevalier.
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Jacqueline Woodson on the Joys of Reading Slowly

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In a TED talk dedicated to taking the time to appreciate stories, Jacqueline Woodson extols the virtues of reading slowly.
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Emily Dickinson, Harvard-Bound

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Seth Perlow examines how Harvard claims the rights to Emily Dickinson's poems, a body of work that was unpublished when she died, more than 130 years ago.
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Undine Spragg: Edith Wharton’s Best Antiheroine

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In her introduction to Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country, Jia Tolentino paints Undine Spragg as an easily relatable antiheroine.
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Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s Book of Genesis

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Daniel Mallory Ortberg tackles a wide array of subjects in his next book, including William Shatner, HGTV's House Hunters, and the Book of Genesis.
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