Laura Miller
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Books and culture columnist for Slate
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A Radiant New Novel Uses Time Travel in a Wonderfully Fresh Way
Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch immerses the reader in London during wartime.
https://slate.com/culture/2026/03/francis-spufford-nonesuch-book-review-london-blitz-world-war-ii.html
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Magnificent:
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Like a Burnished Throne, Like a Kick in the Head
Biography at the limit: "Erotic Vagrancy" and "Dino"
https://agoodhardstare.substack.com/p/like-a-burnished-throne-like-a-kick?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1167687&post_id=186927625&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=7eb51&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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I Dreamed of Building a Holzhausen. It Was Worth It.
Building a holzhausen became my quest.
https://slate.com/life/2026/01/holzhausen-woodpile-stack-house-german-scandinavian.html
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Decent harvest from the best tree
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Fourth squirrel down
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If Any Writer Is Due for a Revival, It’s One of Literature’s Most Misunderstood Novelists
Rebecca author Daphne du Maurier was dismissed as merely a “romantic” novelist.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/daphne-du-maurier-books-rebecca-after-midnight-short-stories-review.html
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Squirrels must die
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The rare times I visit this site, people always seem to be raging at each other, but let me tell you, you don't know rage until the squirrels steal all the peaches from your tree.
9 months ago
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Why Is Everyone Convinced a Serial Killer Is Stalking New England?
The collapsed boundary between fiction and fact prevails among the fans of true crime too.
https://slate.com/life/2025/07/new-england-serial-killer-2025-maine-theories.html
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How Did the Author of Space Raptor Butt Invasion Become One of Our Best Mainstream Horror Writers?
Lucky Day is weird, compelling—and very surprising, coming from the author of My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/07/chuck-tingle-best-horror-books-romance-lucky-day.html
11 months ago
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Field dinner
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about 1 year ago
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Pat McDermott ❌ 👑
about 1 year ago
A great book recommendation from
@lauramille.bsky.social
writing for
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: Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, published 40 years ago. Postman writes about the transformation from a print culture to a television culture. 👇🏾👇🏻👇🏽👇🏼👇🏿
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The One Book That Explains Our Current Era Was Written 40 Years Ago
NYT pundits and NBA writers alike can't stop recommending this four-decade-old book.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/amusing-ourselves-death-neil-postman-ezra-klein.html
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UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
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Your guide to sweater detectives
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Detective Shows Are Great, but One Subgenre Is the Very Best
From Mare of Easttown to Broadchurch to The Killing, these shows will hook any mystery lovers.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/02/detective-tv-shows-series-scandi-nordic-noir-mystery-murder-crime.html
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Why we love to imagine the end of the world:
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Why Humans Can’t Get Enough of the End of the World
Dorian Lynskey’s witty Everything Must Go explores the last human tale.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/02/apocalypse-book-dorian-lynskey-everything-must-go.html
over 1 year ago
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On Han Kang's latest:
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It’s Her First Novel Since Winning the Nobel Prize. It’s Despairingly Beautiful.
Listen, the snow is falling in We Do Not Part.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/01/han-kang-book-nobel-we-do-not-part.html
over 1 year ago
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My tribute to the one and only David Lynch
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David Lynch Was an Oracle
No one ever was, or ever will be, like him.
https://slate.com/culture/2025/01/david-lynch-dead-movies-twin-peaks-blue-velvet.html
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