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    Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays

    Alexandra Petri

    Paperback

    These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the US presidency.

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    Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays

    Jesse McCarthy

    Hardback

    A supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.

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    Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

    Adrienne Rich, Eula Biss

    Paperback

    The groundbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation.

  • We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

    Lydia Millet

    Paperback

    This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened

  • Atavists: Stories

    Lydia Millet

    Hardback

    A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm