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Newsletter #304

July 26, 2021

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

by Ben Goldfarb

TRUE

I didn't need much convincing to read a book about those chubby, flat-tailed rodents: their industrious ingenuity has always made them among the most appealing of animals. But what Goldfarb does in hi... (Tom)

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Filthy Animals

by Brandon Taylor

MADE-UP

Anyone who loved Taylor's debut novel from last year, Real Life (as I did), will feel right at home in the stories in his first collection, which also mostly feature young graduate students in the Mid... (Tom)

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Laidlaw

by William McIlvanney

MADE-UP

Even if you only occasionally visit the crime genre, you’re acquainted with the depressive, philosophical, highly capable but unconventional police detective. But that vast brotherhood springs from a... (Liz)

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