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What I Hate

An alphabetical list of the things we love about Roz Chast's wonderfully wry cartoons would stretch from the absolutely amazing way she captures everyday anxiety to the zig-zaggy line she employs to evoke a parade of zany characters. Here, the New Yorker staff cartoonist offers a hilarious compendium of the horrible and the merely irritating that makes us love her all the more.

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June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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