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Indian director Zoya Akhtar’s The Archies is an idyllic cottage-core fantasy — with a political twist.

Two years into a surge in book banning efforts across the country, restrictions that were largely happening in school libraries, where they affected children, are now affecting the wider community as well.

It’s called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. “We wanted something a little fierce,” she said.

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.

Amid a nationwide surge in book bans, memoirs and novels that deal with the experiences of L.G.B.T.Q. people or explore race received the most challenges.

Sally Rooney’s new novel explores the relationship between two brothers grieving the death of their father, and follows their complicated love lives with Rooney’s usual panache.

Harvey’s novel about six astronauts living and working on the International Space Station won the 2024 Booker Prize.

This off-kilter coming-of-age novel about one boy growing up in New York in the 1980s is detailed, digressive and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion.

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