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  • 9 Great Novels About Anthropologists

    The Editorial Staff

    The 115th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association is underway in Minneapolis. How we wish we could be there to study that fascinating tribe, Homo anthropologus, in its natural habitat. Instead, the Public Books team crowdsourced a list of beloved novels about anthropologists. Follow intrepid ne’er-do-wells, investigate utopian communes, and travel to distant lands in the name of Science! 1. Lily…

  • 14 Autofiction Writers Who Aren’t Knausgaard

    The Editorial Staff

    If you look in a bookstore for Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume series My Struggle—Book Five of which was released by Archipelago today—you’ll probably find it shelved under “Fiction.” But it’s narrated in the first-person by a man named Karl Ove, whose life bears striking resemblance to the biographical Knausgaard’s. The genre known as “autofiction” seems…

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