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Into this fog slipped Halle Butler’s Banal Nightmare . The novel, Butler’s third, is the story of Moddie, an overeducated and underachieving thirtysomething who, following a seismic breakup, abandons Chicago for her Midwestern hometown, where she tries to get a grip on her life. It’s a sharp book, with painfully real characters and perfectly... See more

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Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore

Capacious

Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

Lovecraftian fiction’s discomforting insinuation that human existence is finite seems like a sage foreshadowing of our current awareness of deep time and extinction. The story of an archaic sea creature coming back to claim its due maps easily onto fears tied to the Anthropocene. Yet in Lovecraft, the figure positioned against the ground is still

Elvia Wilk • Death by Landscape

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Mexican Gothic

Morbid Musings

Andreas Vlach • 4 cards

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned

Sarah Perry • Enlightenment

Death of an Author: A Novella

Aidan Marchine

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the extraordinary corpus of Patrick Harpur, one of the most criminally underrated scholars of our time.