Posts by Kevin Nguyen
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April Book Recommendations: ‘Melancholia’ for Teens and a Prom Date With Predetermined Death
The books of April have a lot to do with kids who are about to die. But not in a gloomy way.
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March Book Recommendations: Memorable Stories of Forgetting
On Laura van den Berg’s ‘Find Me’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant.’
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February Book Recommendations: ‘The Girl on the Train’ Is Worthy of Its Inevitable ‘Next “Gone Girl”’ Hype
If you liked Gillian Flynn’s mega–best seller, you might want to check this one out.
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January Book Recommendations: Found in Translations, From Brazil to China to Switzerland
This month: ‘Blood-Drenched Beard,’ ‘The Seventh Day,’ and ‘The Country Road.’
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Books of the Year: Mysterious Women, Sad Men, and Stories From the Postapocalypse
Including the debuts ‘Everything I Never Told You,’ ‘Redeployment,’ and ‘Wolf in White Van.’
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November Book Recommendations: ‘Yes Please’ and ‘Not That Kind of Girl’
Thoughts on the new books from Amy Poehler and Lena Dunham.
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October Book Recommendations: John Darnielle’s ‘Wolf in White Van,’ Ben Lerner’s ’10:04,’ and Men’s Feelings
I’ve only reread two novels this year: John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van and Ben Lerner’s 10:04. Admittedly, they are both brief novels about sad men, but they are also two of the finest works of fiction I have read in a long time.
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September Book Recommendations: ‘The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace’
Also: ‘Station Eleven,’ ‘Datacylsm,’ and ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’
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August Book Recommendations: American Dreams
Matthew Thomas’s ‘We Are Not Ourselves’ and Scott Cheshire’s ‘High As the Horses’ Bridles’ are two impressive debut novels that deal with family and identity in America.
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July Book Recommendations: Comics That Stand Alone
‘This One Summer,’ ‘Benson’s Cuckoos,’ Bryan Lee O’Malley’s ‘Seconds,’ and other new, essential comics reading.
