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BOOKS
THE INSTITUTE
By Stephen King
THE PROLIFIC PROSE
MASTER’S LATEST NOVEL
TRACKS CHILD PRODIGY LUKE
ELLIS, WHO IS ORPHANED
AND THEN KIDNAPPED BY A
SECRET ORGANIZATION
THAT DEPOSITS HIM IN AN
ESTABLISHMENT FOR KIDS
WITH SUPERNATURAL
POWERS. THE RESULT IS
BOTH A KING-WORTHY PAGE-
TURNER AND A SOBERING
REMINDER THAT—IN FICTION
AND IN REALITY—IMPRISONING
KIDS IS A HORRIFYING ACT.
7 Lana DelPop’s self-dubbed “24/7 Sylvia Plath” blesses the masses with a new album after 2017’s
exceptionally lofty Lust for Life. With its pearl-clutcher of a title, expect Del Rey’s
Norman F---king Rockwell (out Aug. 30) to continue the singer’s career-long explora-
tion of America’s glamorous and gritty underbelly. Early singles, like the wispy ballad
“Venice Bitch” and the Leonard Cohen-esque “Mariners Apartment Complex” (which
hands Del Rey’s California cool to pop producer Jack Antonoff for their first collabora-
tion), promise that Del Rey is keen to quench her fans’ saltwater thirst for late-
summertime sadness—just in time for the seasons to start a-changing.The Must List