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The Fine Balance Required of an ‘Authorial Rant’

By Boris Kachka Feb 13, 2026, 2:21 pm56 pts
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Novelists, including great ones, can be a cranky bunch. The crankiest one I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing was Lionel Shriver, the author of, most famously, We Need to Talk About…

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