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36 vacation reads and porch picks
Some of our selections this season are profoundly serious, like one woman’s harrowing account of her 2002 lockdown in Gujarat, India. Some are particularly timely this election year, like Tim Cullen’s fair maps deep dive. Others offer hilarious escapism ( …