In Kurkov’s hands, his efforts offer both serious meditations and page-turning diversion.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Science journalist Sabrina Imbler combines memoir and reportage in this insightful and far-reaching essay collection, using 10 ocean animals as a jumping-off point for personal meditations on health, community and survival.
Selzer’s contemplations bring together literature, history, philosophy, medicine, and ruminations.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
Internal memos between the justices in 2016 published by The New York Times have created a firestorm around an institution that takes extraordinary measures to keep its contemplations confidential.
Whether set in Jewish eastern Europe or New York’s Lower East Side, Shtok’s range is on full display, from gossipy melodramas and elegiac reveries to coming of age portraits of shtetl adolescents and immigrant hustlers.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
Burnett was content to mine references from her own Depression-era youth; her famous maid character, the Charwoman, who became something of a show mascot, harked back to Chaplin’s Little Tramp, wearing a rumpled outfit and performing silent reveries.
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