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Junk Shop Window
By James J. Patterson
A personable narrator guides this winning collection.
What an astute author from the past might say about our murky present.
In Poe’s Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric
By Jonathan Elmer
An erudite, overblown case for Edgar’s lasting reach.
Getting to Know Death: A Meditation
By Gail Godwin
A wise, wandering contemplation of what comes next.
Monsters
By Claire Dederer
What to do with beautiful art from wicked artists?
Mean Boys: A Personal History
By Geoffrey Mak
A queer Chinese American man wrestles with the disparate parts of himself.
The Language of Trees
By Katie Holten
An exquisite ode to all things arboreal.
Best Minds
By Stevan M. Weine
A young psychiatrist-in-training studies the famed poet.
