Mythili Rao is a journalist and book critic in New York. Follow her @mythilirao.
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This Week’s Hot Reads
This week, from a childhood interrupted by war in Sri Lanka to the glory days of food reviewing. MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
This week, from the songbirds of rural Indiana to the forgotten gothic literature of Russia. MORE
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Can You Raise a Wife?
An 18th-century philosopher adopted a 12-year-old and tried to raise her—as his wife.... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From the story of the runners who made marathons mainstream to a novel obsessed with speed by a... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From a journalist’s personal history with the racism of the American South to a diary of a Japanese... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From a story collection of manhood in Southern California to some of the last books of Maeve Binchy... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From the breakdown of a teen heartthrob and Jamaica Kincaid’s first new novel in 10 years to Rosie... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From a memoir about how to make and lose friends, to a new novel of graffiti rage by the author of... MORE
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10 Best Hot Reads of 2012
We collect some of our favorite hot-read reviews of the year.... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From a new translation of André Maurois’s semiautobiographical 1928 novel to the letters of the... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From Oliver Sacks’s hallucinations to Alice Munro’s stories. By Mythili Rao. MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From New Delhi’s day-laborers to international gun runners. By Mythili Rao. MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
From a mind-bending novel about being trapped in a parallel life to New Yorker film critic David... MORE
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Welcome to Modern India!
We're in a golden age of writing about India, and Rob Verger, Jacob Silverman and Mythili Rao pick... MORE
