TeaThat accident happened without warning during the holidays. The culprit: an Airbnb bedside table with no power outlet. A minor inconvenience causes the mobile phone to be placed in another room for the night on the last breath of ions. As I lay in bed, desperately trying to stop the wild surge of my thoughts,
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A Sydney author – I’ll call her Rebecca – vowed never to write another book after the maddening experience of publishing her first book. She is using a pseudonym because one day she may change her mind; The notoriously small Australian publishing industry does not view complaining authors with favour. When Rebecca was proofreading her
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This new book is essentially a condensation and concise description of those ideas. It tries so hard to be upbeat and reader-friendly that the audiobook could be narrated by Peppa Pig. It’s ridiculous sometimes. (We’ll get to that.) Still, it’s a more useful book than Begley’s original book. It has countless task lists and sidebars.
Laverne Cox says that from a young age, “I always had music on my mind.” His new memoir is called Excellent. She is shown above in New York in April 2026. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images For more than a decade, Laverne Cox has been one of the most visible
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Birth. “Something breaking, coming loose, then the pain of it.” A small, bent and wrinkled creature has recovered from that pain. But then, instead of the long-awaited cry of a newborn baby: silence. This is the backdrop to Anna Goldreich’s highly accomplished, quietly devastating debut novel The Leverette, a book that asks us to see
Imagination was not George Orwell’s forte. The protagonist in each novel is to some extent an Orwell surrogate doing the same things that Orwell did in the places where Orwell lived. Here, somewhat unconvincingly, the author’s representative is a repressed young woman, Dorothy Heyer, who loses her memory, identity, and faith. Orwell considered it “absurd”,