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Senior associate editor at The Atlantic covering books and literature.

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A Bleak, Violent Novel’s Unexpected Delights

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By Emma Sarappo Verified
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Before his latest book, Marlon James hadn’t written a novel set in Jamaica in more than a decade. In the years following his Booker Prize–winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, the author focused on his Dark Star Trilogy, set in a fantasy universe.
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The Genre That’s a Shortcut to Wisdom Original

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By Emma Sarappo Verified
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. “How are you on theory?” my editor asked me earlier this week. I knew what he was talking about—not my pet hypotheses about, say, the existence of cryptids, but rather a group of 20th-century French philosophers. Yet I didn’t know much else beyond that.
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What Climate Fiction Should Accomplish

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By Emma Sarappo Verified
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Last week, I woke up in Washington, D.C., to a simmering, suffocating haze. The thermometer reached triple digits, and so did the air-quality index, which my phone told me meant “very unhealthy.” If I lived somewhere else—in Delhi, maybe, or Kinshasa, or Los Angeles—where high temperatures and murky skies were more common, I might have been less surprised.
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