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“write criticism as carefully as you would poetry,” and he would indeed write carefully one day about Hardwick’s own books.

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Assouline latest, Fifth Avenue, makes for the perfect holiday present this year. The luxurious book follows the history of ...

Greg can become as good as anyone who’s played the game.” Author Bill Koch tells the sad story of Greg Cook in "Unfinished ...

The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...

And we’d be remiss not to mention a brilliant debut novel that deftly brings humanity and humor to existential dread. Here’s the best of what Vulture’s contributors have read. Titles are ...

I’ve never read nature poems like those in K Patrick’s Three Births (Granta, £12.99). Often in prose, they’re deadpan, ...

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