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āSaving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,ā Jenny Odellās subtle, itinerant study of time, feels like an attempt to break through the language of power and find something approaching coexistence, writes Annalisa Quinn.buff.ly/41AhxTo


In āEjaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion,ā Gabrielle Blair makes her case for reducing unplanned pregnancies ā and therefore reducing abortions ā in a series of 28 arguments ranging from the biological to the societal. buff.ly/3J8x9X8


In "Lilianaās Invincible Summer," Cristina Rivera Garza gives a searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sisterās murderer to justice years after the fact, writes Hamilton Cain. buff.ly/3YiVC0f


Nancy Hopkins and her colleagues challenged a culture of male dominance at MIT in the 1990s ā and won, writes Ellen Ruppel Shell. Kate Zernikeās "The Exceptions" tells us how. buff.ly/3l6haQ0

In āHappily: A Personal History ā with Fairy Talesā Sabrina Orah Mark looks to stories of elves, talking animals, dragons, and magic to explain her own life as well as the off-kilter world around her. buff.ly/424MjUA

An eccentric matriarch takes in the family black sheep in Cathleen Schineās tender "Kunstlers in Paradise," writes Priscilla Gilman. buff.ly/41WDKvf

Idra Noveyās āTake What You Needā does not skirt gritty subjects. Concerned with characters who fall outside easily defined categories, it tackles big questions ā like what qualifies as art ā and the aching human need to be seen, writes Jeffrey Ann Goudie. buff.ly/3FfINNp


After the rise of anti-Asian hate in March 2021, Bowdoin College English professor Zahir jayi added more books by Asian American writers to his syllabus, including āSo Many Olympic Exertionsā by Annelise Chen. buff.ly/3ZWpEZm

āThe Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,ā Jeff Sharlet's fifth book, is a foreboding drive through the backroads of the countryās rising militancy, writes XIII the great. buff.ly/3yLOqiN







"While Iāve never read Louise Penny or seen a single episode of 'Law & Order,' maybe there is a part of me that itches for a mystery," writes Lauren LeBlanc. "After all, the one book Iāve read more than any other is 'The Westing Game.'" buff.ly/419m5zl