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Mantel’s Mastery

The late British novelist Hilary Mantel was masterly in showing how nothing touching on human desire is quite what it appears to be at first blush.
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At Summer’s End

Some books are best read in fall, after the smell of salty air and sunscreen has returned to memory, and as you find yourself wondering where exactly summer went.
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Down to the River

“When Sonny died, I hadn’t stepped foot in a church in twenty years. Not to get married, not while I was going through chemo, not when my husband left me.”
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Keep Looking

Jamel Shabazz photographs a collective portrait of New York, documenting the varying degrees of humility that life in the city forces most of us to adopt.