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Spring Books Preview: Fiction We Can’t Wait to Read by Sally Rooney and Others

Subtle dystopias, #MeToo meditations, a mysterious vanishing, and just Normal People. By Maris Kreizman and Hillary Kelly
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‘Imagine a Woman Like Barbara Walters … and I’m the New Bitch There’

Jenny McCarthy on her year from hell on The View. By Ramin Setoodeh
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John Lanchester’s Fiction Tells the Truth

The British essayist and novelist knows all about self-deception. His new novel, The Wall, is the climate warning we desperately need. By Cody Delistraty
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  4. scams
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    By Maris Kreizman and Hillary Kelly
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    By Hunter Harris
  10. book excerpt
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  27. author profile
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    By Cody Delistraty
  28. one grand books
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    By Kenny Scharf
  29. endings
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    By Jackson McHenry
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  57. sounds like a cd
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