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Biersdorfer In Tumultuous Times ... love “Blind Date With a Book,” which masks a book’s real cover and lets readers discover what’s inside. Sally Rooney’s new novel explores the ...

Yang Shuang-zi’s “Taiwan Travelogue,” a National Book Award finalist, is a nesting-doll narrative about colonial power in its ...

In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction.

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