Coast-to-coast commentary about books
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Sometimes the ‘Best of’ Lists Get it Right
Reading “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemirovsky
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Telling Tales
Reading “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself” by Peter Ho Davies
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A Touch of Cool Weather
Reading “Autumn” by Ali Smith
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Copperfield Redux
Reading “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens
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The Best Novels of 2015
My annual choices for the best books of the year, mostly fiction
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Best Books of 2014
The best books of the year were pretty dreary–dreary but good
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Don’t Waste Any Tears on the Democrats
A post-midterm rant
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A Year of Reading: 2013 Edition
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s strangely compelling autobiographical novel tops the list
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A Year of Reading, 2012 Edition
Adam Johnson’s rollicking but deadly serious “The Orphan Master’s Son” tops the list
Far From Brooklyn 