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Culture writer Cat Zhang says the New York Review of Books reissue of Jack the Modernist would make the perfect gift. The novel is set in the early ’80s and is about the slow dissolution of a love ...

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With traditional publishing cooling on historicals right now, self-published authors like Richards are filling the breach.

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