
Drawing on personal and national histories, Lava Thomas’s art centers the experiences of many Black Americans.
THE MONDAY BOOK REVIEW

In Mercury Pictures Presents, Anthony Marra looks back at World War II.

Tess Gunty’s The Rabbit Hutch is a first novel of uncommon power.

Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles illuminates the author’s experience in California.

Liska Jacobs spares no one in her third novel, The Pink Hotel.

Anna Dorn’s second novel, Exalted, is a Gemini of a book.
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