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Ilana Masad

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Books and Culture Critic at Freelance

Writer and critic for hire. Author of the novel ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS. Queer, tired, Jewish, and ill. (ilanaslightly most other places)

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  • 1 week ago | latimes.com | Ilana Masad

    Book Review It's Not the End of the World By Jonathan Parks-RamageBloomsbury: 384 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores Mason Daunt said he would pick up the flowers himself. Like Mrs. Dalloway, he spends the day leading up to his big party — in his case a baby shower in Los Angeles — reminiscing and worrying.

  • 2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Ilana Masad

    Book Review The South By Tash AwFarrar, Straus and Giroux: 288 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. It’s 1997, the Asian financial crisis is tanking stock markets and “I’ll Be Missing You” by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans is playing in the market of a southern Malaysian town where one teenage boy, Chuan, buys another, Jay, a knockoff Italian brand shirt. “I really don’t need anything.

  • 1 month ago | latimes.com | Ilana Masad

    Christina Li’s adult fiction debut is an enjoyable read centered on the battle over a haunted Altadena estate of an Oscar-winning recluse that once starred in Chinese films.

  • 1 month ago | latimes.com | Ilana Masad

    Austin Kelley was a fact-checker at the New Yorker and the narrator of his debut novel is clearly meant to work there as well, our critic points out. The cover of Austin Kelley’s debut novel, “The Fact Checker,” will be immediately recognizable to a certain type of person: Ah, the New Yorker, they might think, before blinking and realizing that it isn’t.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ilana Masad

    The cover of Austin Kelley's debut novel, "The Fact Checker," will be immediately recognizable to a certain type of person: Ah, the New Yorker, they might think, before blinking and realizing that it isn’t. I am that kind of person; the famous weekly has been around my whole life, issues piled on the bathroom counter or lying open on the kitchen table, and I eventually read them as well.

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