Books Featured in Slate

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In Iceland Everyone Believes in Fairies, and People Write Amazing Novels Like These
An Icelandic mythmaker gets his American debut.
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How Music Got Free: The birth and rise of the mp3—and the forced reboot of the music industry that accompanied it—is incredibly addictive and fun to read.
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Between the World and Me: This changed everything for me: How I think about race, and America; about parenting and writing and the world.
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French Women Are Better Than Us at Everything, Including Not Having Sex
The Art of Sleeping Alone -- in which a Frenchwoman stays "magnifique" through a long dry spell.
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David Foster Wallace Tried to Write About Hip-Hop. It Didn’t Go Well.
When the “resoundingly and in all ways white” David Foster Wallace tried to write about hip-hop.
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The Long-Lost Novel Patti Smith’s Carried in Her Suitcase for Almost 40 Years
Patti Smith on the long-lost novel she’s carried with her for almost 40 years.
The weirdest, funniest comic of the year. Lisa Hanawalt, Fictional Books, Lucky Peach, Husky Voice, North American Wildlife, Some Jokes, Font Inspiration, Stand Up Comedians, Drawing Style
A Hilarious, Dirty, Weird Comic Book You’ll Love
The weirdest, funniest comic of the year.
the cover of station eleven by emiy st john mandel, with tents in the background
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Station Eleven: One of those books that makes you think about writing and people differently.
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If Plot Doesn’t Matter, Then Why Are You Stuck in One?
The The characters in Javier Marías’ novel say plot doesn’t matter—but they’re stuck in one.
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A Caustic, Moving Novel of High Finance and High Heels
A caustic, moving novel of high finance and high heels...
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The Most Inventively Made Comic of the Year
The most inventively-made comic of the year is set on all 10 floors of a burning building.
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Against Foodies
An academic book about the evolution of restaurants sheds new light on the moral bankruptcy of foodie-ism.
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Disaster Porn Gets a Literary Makeover
A new novel looks at what comes next after natural disaster.