We asked eleven authors to tell us about an amazing book that we might have missed in 2018.
Dana Snitzky
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This Month in Books: Two Sides of the Same Gaslight
This month’s books newsletter is a bundle of contradictions, a cornucopia of counterintuitions.
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The Longreads 2018 Holiday Gift Book Guide
We’ve made a catalog of books we featured in 2018 that we think would make great gifts.
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This Month in Books: ‘When Will I Be a Winner?’ or, ‘Mr. President, I Have a Headache’
In this month’s books newsletter, you’re going to get tired of winning.
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This Month In Books: “Once You Can See the Pattern”
A lot of what you’ll read in this month’s books newsletter is about things not seeming to be what they really are.
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This Month in Books: ‘Everything That We Are and Ever Have Been’
This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about identities — mistaken, misunderstood, transformed, false, false, fictional, or as anonymous as the op-ed.
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This Month In Books: ‘Name the Very Specific Situation Around You’
This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about truth and lies, fact and fiction.
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This Month in Books: ‘What Used To Be Me Before the World Buried It’
Everyone is feeling very alone in this month’s books newsletter.
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This Month in Books: ‘We Have Nothing to Weigh Our Hearts Against’
When I look at this month’s Books Newsletter, all I can think about are borders, crossings, the terrible distances between people who have been separated.
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This Month in Books: ‘How Do We Stay the Right Distance Apart?’
At first glance, there’s a pretty stark divide in this month’s books newsletter.