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    Don't Sleep with the Dead

    Fitzgerald evoked his most iconic character from the novel's title, but took a while letting him out on stage. For about 50 pages, the reader only knows about Gatsby what others say about him. Nghi Vo...

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    Reimagining The Great Gatsby

    In 1925, a few months after the publication of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald received a letter from T.S. Eliot in which the poet—already renowned for The Waste Land—described the ...

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    America, América

    The origin and development of the United States is usually explained primarily by looking back east towards Europe, but in America, América, historian Greg Grandin shifts the focus south to Latin...

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    Two Major Works that Shaped American (and Américan) Thought

    In America, América, historian Greg Grandin references two major intellectual works of history and philosophy that influenced the worldviews of peoples in the Americas and in Europe. These two ...

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    The Dry Season

    Two years after the chaotic, self-imposed implosion of her most significant romantic relationship (an affair and breakup she dubs "the Maelstrom") and on the heels of yet another anxiety-provoking bad...

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    Painter Agnes Martin

    In The Dry Season, Melissa Febos seeks out stories of creative women who might serve as models for the kind of artistic life she hopes to pursue following a period of self-enforced celibacy. One ...

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    Great Big Beautiful Life

    Love, often couched in other themes or squeezed between ideas and concepts of apparent greater effect in literary fiction, rarely enjoys exploration for its own sake in its naked simplicity. However, ...

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    Romance Novels with Complex Themes

    In many ways, Emily Henry's Great Big Beautiful Life is about the complex bond between mothers and daughters that prompts mothers to act in strange, counterintuitive ways. While the novel is quite ...

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    This Is Your Mother

    "Imagine this is your mother. Sallie Carol. Daughter of sharecroppers. Middle of ten." From its first lines onward, Erika J. Simpson's debut memoir invites readers to get to know and admire her mother...

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    Memoirs about Mothers

    Erika J. Simpson's This Is Your Mother is an unconventional memoir about the author's mother Sallie Carol. Below we highlight some other recommended memoirs in which an author reflects on their ...

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    Death in the Jungle

    Most people have heard the expression "drinking the Kool-Aid," but not everyone is familiar with its horrifying origin. The often offhanded phrase is a reference to the 1978 tragedy at Jonestown, a ...

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    Cyanide Toxicity: How It Works

    Death in the Jungle tells the true story of Jim Jones, the preacher-turned-cult-leader who founded the infamous Jonestown settlement, a socialist community that became a site of mass murder. Jones ...

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