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The Young Dead
Tim Riley considers Preston Lauterbach’s “Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King.”
All Reviews
This Chaotic, Confusing, Mad World
Jacob Babb reviews Alix E. Harrow’s “Starling House.”
The Last Laugh
Maureen Holloway considers Elizabeth Alsop’s “Elaine May.”
Give Them Space
Claire Foster reviews Jacqueline Feldman’s book about Paris’s artistic squat scene, “Precarious Lease.”
Symptomatic Reading
Grace Byron reviews Sarah Chihaya’s “Bibliophobia.”
Dealer’s Choice: What Freedom Is—and Isn’t
Henry Cowles describes how every choice he makes is now haunted by Sophia Rosenfeld’s “The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life.”
To Touch the Dust of Anarres
Jonathan Bolton thoughtfully reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed” within and against the grain of a half century of criticism.
Are We All Addicts?
Maria Cichosz explores new models of addiction and finds them unsatisfactory.
Beautiful Excesses
Torsa Ghosal reviews the latest entry in the Murty Classical Library of India series, the “greatest hits” anthology “Ten Indian Classics.”
The Life and Times of Lula da Silva
Andre Pagliarini considers the recent biography “Lula” by Fernando Morais, translated by Brian Mier.
Between Pleasure and Pain
L. A. Johnson interviews Eduardo Martínez-Leyva about his debut poetry collection, “Cowboy Park.”
Clambering for Metaphor
Jaye Chen reviews Steven Duong’s “At the End of the World There Is a Pond.”
Making Space for Beauty in Miniature
A. Cerisse Cohen reviews Christine Coulson’s “One Woman Show.”
The Case for Kicking the Stone
Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.
Are We Human? Or Are We Good Girls?
Leah Abrams reviews Aria Aber’s debut novel “Good Girl.”
The Land that Secretes Light
Dan Beachy-Quick reviews Joseph Donahue’s “Terra Lucida XIII–XXI.”
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