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Newsletter #388

April 7, 2025

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5 books featured in this issue

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Despite (or because of) Meta's clumsy efforts to suppress this Facebook insider's expose, it has received a flurry of coverage, focused, unsurprisingly, on its more sleazily scandalous tales. If that'... (Tom)

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Flesh

by David Szalay

MADE-UP

If the first thing you think when you finish a book is, “How did he do that!?”, you can be sure the author has pulled off something remarkable. I’ve long admired Szalay’s style and enjoyed his previou... (Liz)

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

by Omar El Akkad

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To say that this book began as a tweet—a single sentence posted in late October 2023, a little longer than what became its title but the same in spirit—is not to belittle it, but to capture the power... (Tom)

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Raising Hare

by Chloe Dalton

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"There was a time when I knew nothing about hares and gave them little thought," Chloe Dalton writes in Raising Hare. That changes when Dalton rescues a baby hare (called a leveret) near her English c... (Haley)

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Tilt

by Emma Pattee

MADE-UP

Suddenly, the Big One—the catastrophic earthquake predicted to ravage the PNW in the next half century—is no longer a matter of What If but of What Now? Annie is nine months pregnant in IKEA stressing... (Anika)

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