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J.P. Morgan recently published its 2025 Summer Reading List. Here’s a glimpse at six of the new books that it recommended for summer reading. These aren’t your typical beach reads. You won’t find any ...

Choi’s new book began as a 2020 New Yorker story. Louisa’s father Serk is Korean, while mother Anne hails from Ohio. Louisa was just 10 when, in the book’s harrowing first chapter, Serk disappears.

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British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...