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Taking flight

Sigrid Nunez’s lockdown-set novel is one of the best explorations of that time so far

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Sigrid Nunez: 'When my narrator is giving her thoughts, those essayistic parts are always completely identified with me' – The Irish Times

It’s been a difficult few years for us all, that’s for sure. A big part of that recent difficulty informs Nunez’s new novel The Vulnerables

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Only Connect | Kim Hew-Low

In “The Vulnerables,” Sigrid Nunez charts the rise and fall of pandemic-inspired collectivity.

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Devendra Banhart Wore an Issey Miyake Dress to Record His New Album

The uber-stylish musician on the power of wearing dresses, the importance of solitude, and his gorgeous new LP.

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20 New Fall Books To Read This Year

Make some space on your bookshelves for all of the great new books coming out this fall.

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Wrapping Up the Summer Reading List

Wrapping Up the Summer Reading List
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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 254

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

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Eva Longoria Joins Natalie Portman in World's Most Beautiful Book Club, "All About Love"

Natalie Portman does lots besides act, and one of her favorite -- and mission critical -- activities is reading. It's so important to her that she shares her choices and runs Natalie's Book Club. Eva Longoria just joined in for the reading of bell hooks All About Love.

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Eva Longoria Joins Natalie Portman in World's Most Beautiful Book Club, "All About Love"

Natalie Portman does lots besides act, and one of her favorite -- and mission critical -- activities is reading. It's so important to her that she shares her choices and runs Natalie's Book Club. Eva Longoria just joined in for the reading of bell hooks All About Love.

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The Paris Review - Blog Archive Staff Picks: Marriage, Martinis, and Mortality


Sigrid Nunez. Photo: © Marion Ettlinger.
A candid attitude about death and sincere empathy for grief are wrongly put at odds: to speak with frankness is regarded as insensitive, and condolences are meant to come from the heart. But often it is the card-aisle euphemisms that ring false. Sigrid Nunez’s most recent novel,
What Are You Going Through, is unflinching on the theme of mortality and thus presents an openhearted honesty so rare it feels thirst-quenching. The two major elements at play: dread about the end of the world, by way of the narrator’s ex, an academic who delivers lectures about what humanity has done to ensure the demise of everything; and the imminent death of the narrator’s friend, either by cancer or (the friend hopes) her own hand. I don’t want to call this a story without hope, because to face inevitability with the dichotomous perspective of hope versus no hope … you may as well be armed with Hallmark. Nunez renders the pain of aging, especially as a woman, with quiet humor and philosophy brought to life by sharp characters. Readers of Nunez’s previous novel,

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