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Serious Beach Reads

Photo of Trinity Site in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was tested, featured in a review in the Village Voice of the book, "Thin Skin."

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Jenn Shapland’s ‘Thin Skin’: Do Women Writers Apologize Too Much? 

The essay collection free-ranges from cutting emissions to the atom bomb to choosing to raise cats instead of kids.

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Woody Allen image in Village Voice review of the book "Monsters."

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Love the Art, Not the Artist

Claire Dederer’s “Monsters” looks at artists you might not want to bring home to mother. 

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Village Voice review of Joyce Carol Oates' new book, "Zero-Sum."

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Infinite Joyce: Prolific Oates Takes On Dead Wallace

Joyce Carol Oates continues to move up literature’s ladder, looking down upon some of those who didn’t have her stamina. 

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Image from the Village Voice review of the new book, MILTON GLASER: POP

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Milton Glaser Helped Define the Look of the 20th Century

The protean artist set graphic design standards that resonate to this day.

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Village Voice review of the book, "Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature."

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The Lady Doth Protest Too Much for Traditionalists

A new book probes Shakespeare’s obscure origins and finds there just might have been a woman wielding the quill pen.

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Barbara Browning’s ‘The Miniaturists’ Contains Tiny Multitudes

In an interview, the author talks about academia, her connections to song and dance, working during the pandemic, gay male knitters, and the slippage of identity.

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A review of Franz Kafka's diaries in the Village Voice looks at the existential writer's relevance to our own age of anxiety.

BOOKS

Franz Kafka, Born to Tweet?

A new translation of Kafka’s century-old diaries nails our current age of anxiety and irony. 

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CULTURE

The Newsprint Is Yellowed, But the Creem Archive Confirms the Magazine’s Continued Relevance–and Irreverence

With Lester Bangs and other seminal journalists at the keyboards, the rock rag crusaded for truth, justice, and good tunes.

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BOOKS

Jerry Stahl Goes Gonzo-Adjacent in ‘Nein, Nein, Nein!’

The novelist/memoirist/journalist takes an audacious, emotional journey through “concentration-camp-world.”

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Vladimir Nabokov: Heat Seeker

Sixty years of exquisite torture by ‘Pale Fire’

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