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Newsletter #198

August 27, 2018

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of French Exit

French Exit

by Patrick DeWitt

MADE-UP

When I started listening to the audiobook edition of French Exit, I thought, "Oh, this narrator [the book is read by Lorna Raver] is a bit much." Well, it turned out she was just right, because French... (Tom)

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Little Man, Little Man

by James Baldwin, illustrated by Yoran Cazac

MADE-UP

Not many kids' books come with a foreword, an introduction (with endnotes), and an afterword, but the reappearance of the only children's book by the great James Baldwin (nearly forgotten after it was... (Tom)

Cover of The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

by David Quammen

TRUE

Is there such a thing as a tree of life, or is it closer to a web? With his explanation of the branching of species, Darwin made the tree one of the central images of biology. But the last half-centur... (Tom)

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