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From Fady Joudah’s genocide elegy to a forgotten 1940 Fitzgerald rival, the week of Sept. 21–25, 2026 in books was dense, strange, and necessary.
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Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, demands AI be “disarmed,” targeting autonomous weapons, data colonialism, and patent hoarding — with Anthropic’s co-founder present at the release.
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Wallace Shawn’s double bill at Greenwich House Theater challenges theatrical conventions with literary language and static staging that somehow creates magnetic drama.
Sarah Wang’s debut novel uses plastic surgery and reality TV as vehicles to explore the complex relationship between immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters.
















































