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Culture April 27, 2019
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
Felicity McLean’s debut novel, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone, has been described as Picnic at Hanging Rock for a new generation. In Joan Lindsay’s classic, the girls go missing from Appleyard College, while the titular surname in …
Culture February 23, 2019
Beside Myself
Sasha Marianna Salzmann’s debut novel starts by advising, “I don’t know where we’re going.” From there, Beside Myself takes you from Moscow to Berlin to Istanbul on a dizzying trip through time. Alissa – Ali –leaves Germany in …
Culture March 09, 2019
Baby
A couple of years ago, millennial pink had its moment as a cultural trend. A delicate shade of blush, it spread from Pantone to Instagram to home decor and became an aesthetic for the selfie-obsessed and supposedly most self-obsessed generation. New …
Books January 26, 2019
The Library Book
In Los Angeles, which “has had its share of strange nights”, the public Central Library is a microcosm of the city. In 1986 it caught fire and was wrapped in flames that lasted seven hours and destroyed or damaged more than a million books. Susan …
