The Brooklyn Rail

Books

• Rumaan Alam’s That Kind of Mother

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  By Deena ElGenaidi

• Lillian Li's Number One Chinese Restaurant

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  By Katharina Smundak

• Harry Mathews's The Solitary Twin

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  By John Reed

• Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex 1

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  By Rebecca Rukeyser

• Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man

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  By David Varno

• Leslie Jamison's The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath

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  By Deena ElGenaidi

• Joshua Mensch's Because, A Lyric Memoir

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  By John Domini

• Skate Dad: NEAL THOMPSON with Marina Petrova

• They Can't Kill Us Until they Kill Us: HANIF ABDURRAQIB with Nicholas Rys

• Elle Nash's Animals Eat Each Other

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  By John Domini