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THE ECHOES, by Evie WyldDeath and its ambassadors, ghosts, are perpetually in style. Lookit: Just yesterday, in fact, several people…

THEORY & PRACTICE, by Michelle de KretserIn the 1980s, an intellectual revolution took hold on college campuses, spreading, this newspaper…

DREAM STATE, by Eric PuchnerEven if you live in Montana, the place is partly a dream — a fantasy shaped…

THE LOVES OF MY LIFE: A Sex Memoir, by Edmund WhiteSome people celebrate turning 85 with grandchildren, gardening or a…

Drawing extensively on Willie Lee Rose’s “Rehearsal for Reconstruction,” an influential chronicle of the Union’s early and mixed efforts to…

“The Wickedest” is a scattering of electricities. The dancing is all impulse and appetite, with a DJ who occasionally breaks…

MONA ACTS OUT, by Mischa BerlinskiIf not for the opiates in her system, or the weed she vaped to boost…

DARK LABORATORY: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, by Tao Leigh GoffeThe slow-motion disaster that…

EVERYTHING MUST GO: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World, by Dorian LynskeyWhen it comes to make-believe…

Both she and Lydia Emerson, who married Ralph Waldo, sustained their marriages by compromising their own intellectual talents. Lydia —…