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David Rakoff, Sara Paretsky, and Other Hot Reads

This week: a dystopian novel from Sigrid Nunez, hilariously sharp essays from David Rakoff, “Bloody Queen” Mary revised in a new biography, the art world and Iraq clash in Sara Paretsky’s latest, and what the 2008 election meant for women.

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Salvation Cityby Sigrid Nunez

An award-winning writer returns with a dystopian story of a 13-year-old boy orphaned after a flu pandemic wipes out swaths of the country.

Sigrid Nunez, the author of five previous novels and winner of the Rome Prize in Literature and Berlin Writers’ Award, writes this time about...

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