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Selected Book Reviews by Lydia

05.16.22 | How Does a Man Become an Island?

Karen Jennings’ An Island  (NYT — paywall)

11.30.21 | The Horrors of Irish Magdalene Laundries, Revisited

Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (NYT — paywall)

07.20.21 | In ‘The Council of Animals,’ the Fate of Humanity Comes Down to a Vote

Nick McDonell’s bestselling novel (NYT — paywall)

10.06.20 | To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope

Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings (NYT — paywall)

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