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Nights of Plague: A Novel
By Orhan Pamuk; translated by Ekin Oklap
This inventive tale of a long-ago contagion speaks to our world today.
Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy
By Timothy Shenk
Nice country you’ve got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
Canción
By Eduardo Halfon; translated by Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn
This uneven novella boasts compelling scenes but scant emotional resonance.
Castaway Mountain
By Saumya Roy
This powerful real-life tale from India reads like fiction.
Bonhoeffer’s America
By Joel Looper
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The German theologian came to New York twice. What he saw appalled him.
An engaging natural (and enraging colonial) history from Down Under.
Rip Van Winkle’s Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
Edited by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
Appraising a 19th-century master through a 21st-century lens.
The First Thing About You
By Chaz Hayden
A teen confronts ableism — and seeks reinvention — at his new school.
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