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This book was an all-out wild ride. Reading it was like watching a car crash—it made me wince and cringe a little bit, but I absolutely cou...

“To be fat in America is to be subject to a ceaseless and powerful campaign to make you feel ashamed of yourself. It happens directly, it h...

From the moment their father died when Tom was in college, he has taken care of his sister Dorothy. He’s bailed her out when business ideas...

In Heather Frimmer's upcoming novel, Better to Trust , a woman’s medical crisis lays bare a multitude of issues in her life and her fam...

You might be tempted to write Abby Jimenez's new book The Friend Zone off as fluffy "chick-lit," assuming it's not much ...

Sometimes reading is less an entertaining experience than one intended to teach, to provoke emotions, and make you think. That was definite...

There were moments while devouring Sally Thorne's newest book, 99 Percent Mine , where I would have been like Sheldon in the GIF above...

When I decided to read Stephen King's new novella, Elevation , at around 11:00 p.m. last night, I will admit I wondered what I was thin...

Ugh. This one really fell flat for me. The idea of self-improvement is often an appealing one, but it takes so much work, so when someone...

One of my favorite quotes is, "Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind." It's certainly a good...

What is it about books with pronouns in the title? Me Before You, Everything I Never Told You, The Geography of You and Me , and now, Cat...

For me, reading David Sedaris' books is like hanging out with that slightly strange friend—you may think you're crazy, but at leas...

When you can accurately predict nearly the entire plot of a book, yet you still can't tear yourself away from it—that's when you kn...

"To be alive at all is to have scars." —John Steinbeck Michael Farris Smith chose the above epigraph for his new novel, The Fi...

If you think of works of fiction like works of art, Carmen Maria Machado's debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties , is an a...

In trying to express how I felt about Viet Thanh Nguyen's exquisite new story collection, The Refugees , I decided to turn to one of the...

This one just didn't work for me. Mathilde and Claudio meet at a party at NYU in 1998. Mathilde is an aspiring actress, creative and ...

Full disclosure: I received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review. Many thanks to NetGalley and W....

I'll cut to the chase on this one fairly quickly: Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life is nothing short of an utter masterpiece. This ...

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know—by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still ti...