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Mythili Rao is a journalist and book critic in New York. Follow her @mythilirao.

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This Week’s Hot Reads: February 9, 2015

Hot Reads

Unlocking the Scandinavian psyche, fictional renderings of real life women, and interpersonal drama in Greece.

Mythili Rao | Published Feb 08, 2015

This Week’s Hot Reads

New & Notable

This week, from murder in Mississippi to the pawn shops of Appalachia.

Mythili Rao | Published Dec 22, 2014

This Week’s Hot Reads: May 26, 2014

In Brief

This week, from lobster fishermen and meth dealers off the Maine Coast to the world’s largest statue of Stalin.

Mythili Rao | Published May 28, 2014

This Week’s Hot Reads

Hot Reads

This week, from friendship with a phony (and murderous) Rockefeller to fortune-seeking husband-hunters in the British Raj.

Mythili Rao | Published Mar 10, 2014

This Week’s Hot Reads

Histories

This week, from a preacher-turned-novelist’s meditations on death to the power struggles and engineering breakthroughs that lead to America’s first subway.

Mythili Rao | Published Feb 18, 2014

Hot Reads

IN THE FAMILY

This week, from the 1964 World’s Fair to people on the edge to saving the world.

Mythili Rao | Published Jan 08, 2014

The Year's Best Hot Reads

Don't Miss

From a collection of Iranian short stories to a tale of a self-style prophet's post-frontier standoff in Alaska, here are the books you might have missed in 2013.

Nicholas Mancusi, Mythili Rao | Published Dec 30, 2013

This Week’s Hot Reads

IN THE FAMILY

This week, from the short fiction of an overlooked American master to the family history of three generations of real-life adventurers.

Mythili Rao, Thomas Flynn, Mythili Rao and Thomas Flynn | Published Dec 02, 2013

This Week’s Hot Reads

Lost

This week, from stories about the streets of Tehran to the quest to bring a lost World War II pilot home.

Mythili Rao | Published Oct 28, 2013

Champion of the Stifled

Chinelo Okparanta

The Nigerian-born Chinelo Okparanta’s debut collection introduces the world to a defender of young women who are oppressed and silenced.

Mythili Rao | Published Aug 19, 2013

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