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Remember Who’s Feeding You Your Oscar-Bait Poverty Porn
When America wants easy, comforting answers, books like ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ — and Ivy League asshole J.D. Vance — provide them
In This Graphic Memoir, the Anxiety of OCD Is a Visual Trip
In ‘Everything Is An Emergency,’ Jason Adam Katzenstein gazes deeply into the narrative themes of his mental space
Coronavirus Has Taken Our Nostalgia Addiction to New Extremes
A new book by Canadian writer David Berry takes a critical lens to our fondness for the cozy past, explaining the risks of a backward gaze
The Florida Books That Actually Explain America
By sifting through a swamp of stereotypes, authors from the Sunshine State have discovered a national truth