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    Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Banks, Wilson, Krasznahorkai, and More

    by Thom Beckwith Nov 08, 2022 6 minutes

    Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Russell Banks, Kevin Wilson, László Krasznahorkai, and more—that are publishing this week.

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    The Magic Kingdom by Russell Banks

    Here’s what  about : “Banks’s heartbreaking latest (after ) delves into the history of a Shaker community in Florida through one man’s tragic story. In a metafictional frame, Banks describes finding in a public library a trove of reel-to-reel tapes, on which Harley Mann recounts his years as a teenager growing up in the remote New Bethany Shaker colony. What follows are Banks’s transcriptions of the recordings, which Harley made in 1971 when he was 81. After Harley’s father dies, Harley and his family move from their faltering utopian socialist community to New Bethany, and though he doesn’t immediately buy into the Shaker beliefs, he accepts the mentorship of

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