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    This is How You Lose the Time War

    Keeping love alive on battlefields, in decaying cities, with the future of humanity at stake—how is it done?

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    Blind Man’s Bluff

    Blind Man’s Bluff by James Tate Hill is a beautifully honest and funny memoir on blindness. Or more accurately, on how the author, struck by a serious eye disease at age sixteen, tried to hide his disability from friends and…

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    Wait Till You See Me Dance

    With “Likable,” the opening story of Wait Till You See Me Dance, Deb Olin Unferth throws us into the pitfalls of social anxiety, one of the themes threading her impressive new story collection.

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    In the Dream House

    Machado’s writing is clever, poetic at times, and sharp when it needs to be. The structure of her memoir in very short chapters is the perfect vehicle to tell both a personal tale and dissect the mechanism inherent in the…

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