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Vance Humiliated With Brutal One-Star Book Reviews

The Daily Beast 17 Jun 2026
JD Vance’s book isn’t exactly pulling in rave reviews ... Goodreads, a website where readers can rate and review ...
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Book Review: ‘Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body,’ by Erin Maglaque

New York Times 16 Jun 2026
In “Presence,” the historian Erin Maglaque pieces together the fragments of early modern womanhood ... .
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Book Review: ‘The Frenzy,’ by Joyce Carol Oates

New York Times 16 Jun 2026
The stories in her new collection deal in jagged emergencies and in wounds both physical and psychic ... .
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Book Review: ‘Ghost-Eye,’ by Amitav Ghosh

New York Times 16 Jun 2026
Fascinating if overstuffed, Amitav Ghosh’s “Ghost-Eye” connects the mystifying case of a girl in Calcutta to the global climate crisis ... .
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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds'

Finger Lakes Times 16 Jun 2026
When Season 25 of “The Bachelor” aired on TV during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the 30 women vying for the love of Matt James arrived wearing nothing but black lingerie. Another woman arrived in a chauffeur-driven ... .
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Suicidal Empathy: Dying To Be Kind'

The Washington Times 16 Jun 2026
"It is never a good idea to ignore the warning signs of reality." ... .
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Book Review: “The New Intersection of Money – Where TradFi and DeFi Converge”

Brave New Coin 16 Jun 2026
Overall, the book appears to totally ignore utility tokens ... NFTs themselves also get dismissed in this book as a scam – with the author singling out Bored Ape Yacht Club as the NFT project to taint all others.
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Book Review: ‘The Nord Stream Conspiracy,’ by Bojan Pancevski

New York Times 15 Jun 2026
In “The Nord Stream Conspiracy,” the investigative journalist Bojan Pancevski tells a high-stakes international war story in blockbuster prose ... .
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Briefly Noted Book Reviews

New Yorker 15 Jun 2026
“Ghost-Eye,” “Whistler,” “Newcomers,” and “Fires in the Night.” ... .
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Local UNG student publishes book review

Marietta Daily Journal 15 Jun 2026
Five students in the University of North Georgia’s College of Education were featured in the Georgia Association of Literacy Advocates FOCUS Newsletter for spring 2026 ... .
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Book Review: “Transcendent: A Memoir” by Laverne Cox

The Tennessee Tribune 15 Jun 2026
c.2026, Gallery Books $30.00 238 pages. Okay, let’s just say it. you’re tired of lies. They come from above, behind, from either shoulder. They’re repeated, laid out in a line, told as ... As in the new memoir ... As this book progresses, Cox’s story does, too.
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Book Review: ‘Empire of Ink,’ by Alex Wright

New York Times 14 Jun 2026
In “Empire of Ink,” Alex Wright describes how newfangled technologies and disruptive personalities have regularly unsettled the American media ... .
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BOOK REVIEW: What can ghosts teach about grief?

TimesDaily 13 Jun 2026
Waiting on a Friend” is Natalie Adler’s first novel but, already, I’d argue she can do what greats like Ann Patchett, Patrick Ryan and Celeste Ng do ... .
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