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Vigil by George Saunders

I’ll be honest: I was not able to finish Lincoln in the Bardo, the famous novel by Saunders that stars Lincoln’s deceased son in limbo. I promise I tried; the image that Saunders painted of Lincoln embracing his son’s body is still stuck in my mind. What a haunting image of one of the few…

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

One of the most hyped books of the year – and a debut novel – Yesteryear delivers a two-tone narrative: a survival thriller paired with an acerbic cultural exposé. The conceit of the novel is this pearl: a tradwife goes back in time to the 1800s and must survive the nightmarish struggle she pretended to…

Competition in the Housing Market

I recently posted about Marisa Kashino’s dark comedy novel Best Offer Wins. The unhinged protagonist drives the plot, but behind her actions is real anxiety about how competitive the housing market has gotten after the pandemic. In this article, I will use publicly-available data to understand this better. First, how much worse did the market…

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