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Ian’s 2024 Year in Books
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Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American
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Data of Discontent
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2011
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| istory through the lens of an ordinary object has become a common framework for nonfiction narratives over the two decades since Mark Kurlansky’s Salt popularized the genre. A wide range of these books now exists dealing with items like Eyeliner (Zah ...more | |
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| Big family dramas find fuel in big secrets. In Heather Aimee O’Neill’s debut, The Irish Goodbye, the big secrets of the past haunt the present, even as the suburban, Long Island Ryan family piece together their future. They are haunted by tragedy, Ca ...more | |
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| An author can live on through their writing well beyond their deaths. Publishers releasing new works posthumously has become something of a sport. Joan Didion’s journal, Notes to John was recently published, and Harper Lee, who’s Go Set a Watchman on ...more | |
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Cutting satire depends on humor and irony, but also empathy. When the political commentary lacks that final ingredient, as in Scott Johnston’s The Sandersons Fail Manhattan, we’re left with unrelatable, unmoving characters who exist in a world detach ...more |
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| Friendship in adulthood changes. The daily routines sustaining childhood friendships no longer exist in adulthood, and the intimacies of college and young adulthood are replaced by relationships centered on spouses and family. Friends become distant. ...more | |
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| Oranges, and derivative products such as juice, are so ubiquitous in the modern supermarket, most consumers take the fruit for granted. Yet, it wasn’t so long ago that citrus was a rare luxury cherished as a gift and reserved for the upper classes. A ...more | |
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| Emotional intimacy is at stake in Thomas Morris’s latest story collection, Open Up. The stories feature characters struggling to find connection with others, and not often succeeding. These results are particularly depressing given that many of the r ...more | |
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| Emotional intimacy is at stake in Thomas Morris’s latest story collection, Open Up. The stories feature characters struggling to find connection with others, and not often succeeding. These results are particularly depressing given that many of the r ...more | |
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