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At an Elite School, Be Careful Who You Trust

Set in the early 1980s, Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise (Henry Holt & Co.) is an artful and bold novel that elasticizes form and content. The plot centers on a love affair between Sarah and David, students at an elite school for the performing arts in an unnamed city. As in Donna…
Jessica McEntee
April 26, 2019
Fiction

Animal Husbandry and Academic Rivalry

Paging fans of Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry: Lindsay Stern’s new novel, The Study of Animal Languages (Viking Books), is a thought-provoking and surefooted debut that balances questions of morality with an affecting emotional arc. Philosopher Ivan and animal linguistics expert Prue are married academics and (so-called) experts on communication whose relationship has flatlined, in…
Jessica McEntee
March 6, 2019