Adam P. Newton
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Reprinted in 2025 by New York Review of Books, Sun City by Tove Jansson overflows with whimsical heart as it tells the story of a retirement home in 1970s Florida.
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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig is a pitch-perfect novella that uses the royal game to investigate humanity and its most curious impulses.
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With The Universal Baseball Association, Robert Coover uses the character of J. Henry Waugh to investigate the state of midcentury masculinity in America.
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Throughout Lost Worlds, Patrick Wyman investigates multiple civilizations across world history to explore the resilience and creativity of humanity.
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Originally published in 1989, Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin is a tremendous collection of her speeches and essays between 1976-1988.
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A shorter novel by Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter is a character study on the conflict between motherhood and adulthood that refuses any easy answers.


