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The Million-Dollar Kindle Question 

Is there room in this glutted e-reader cover marketplace for one that doesn’t say “I am an idiot”?

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The Girl With the Moomintroll Tattoo 

My summer fling with Tove Jansson

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Adventures in Self-Help

Can you read your way out of a creative lull?

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Meet Elena Ferrante, World-Class Peekaboo Artist

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The Book Club Crisis

How to dampen a passion

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The Games Women Play: Part 2

More on intimacy, intensity, and dirty secrets 

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The Games Women Play: Part 1

A conversation with memoirist Susanna Sonnenberg about female friendship…

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The Quarter-Century Book Club

I rarely take off my literary beer goggles. But there was nothing willful or misguided about my affection…

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Jennifer is a world-class health nut, so I knew I was in trouble when she caught me sneaking a cigarette outside her ex-husband’s wedding. But she completely blindsided me when she said…

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The Lauren Papers
The Lauren Papers
An every-other-Friday column by Lauren Mechling.
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