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    Linguaphile

    From an infant's first attempts to connect with the world around them to the final words shared with the dying, human life and language are intimately intertwined. Linguist Julie Sedivy's new book, ...

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    Writers' Experiences with Aphasia

    In Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love, a combination of popular science and memoir, linguist Julie Sedivy shares that one of her worst fears is that an illness or injury will cause her to develop ...

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    The Rest of You

    At the start of Maame Blue's The Rest of You, Whitney Appiah, a Ghanaian Londoner, is ringing in her thirtieth birthday at a bar with her best friend and roommate, Chantelle. However, she is also ...

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    The Ghanaian Tradition of Day Names

    There are many different tribes and cultural influences in Ghana; therefore, Ghanaian culture shouldn't be assumed to be a monolith. However, the tradition of naming children after the day they ...

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    The Book of George

    The premise of The Book of George, the witty, highly entertaining new novel from Kate Greathead, is that every reader knows a George. Well-heeled and well-connected, he's a young man with all of life'...

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    The Picaresque

    In The Book of George, Kate Greathead covers the life of her eponymous hero in 14 chapters depicting key moments from his first 40 years. In doing so, she draws on elements of the picaresque, an ...

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    The Sequel

    In Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel, Anna Williams-Bonner, the wife of recently deceased author Jacob Finch Bonner, is loving her new life as the widow of a man who wrote a blockbuster novel—if ...

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    Book Tours Behind the Scenes

    In The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, readers get a taste of what authors go through in the rite of publishing passage known as 'the book tour.' For new or established authors, a book tour usually ...

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    My Good Bright Wolf

    Sarah Moss has been afflicted with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa since her pre-teen years but was able to keep the condition under some control for decades. During this period she completed a D...

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    Playwright John Webster

    In her memoir My Good Bright Wolf, Sarah Moss conjures up an imaginary wolf spirit to support her childhood self. She claims the idea came from a line in one of the first poems she memorized, "A ...

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    Canoes

    The short stories in Maylis de Kerangal's new collection, Canoes, translated from the French by Jessica Moore, are all loosely concerned with the human voice. In one story, a woman notices that her ...

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    Buffalo Bill and His Wild West Show

    In Maylis de Kerangal's new short story collection, Canoes, a woman moves from Paris to Golden, Colorado, a mining town in the foothills of the Rockies. At the top of Lookout Mountain, overlooking...

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