REVIEW: 'How to Behave in a Crowd,' a Too-Clever Novel of Family Life
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Poor Dory, Surrounded by Five Very Brilliant -- and Off-Putting -- Older Siblings
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REVIEW: Alice McDermott's 'The Ninth Hour' Looks at a Woman on the Verge
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A Young Widow Finds an Unholy Love, and Puts Her Soul in the Balance
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A Tragedy of a Life Cut Short that Shines a Light on the Problem of Overincarceration
Read MoreREVIEW: Katy Tur on How Donald Trump Released America's Political Devils
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An Honest, and at Times Alarming, Journal from the 2016 Campaign Trail
Read MoreREVIEW: Roddy Doyle's New Novel Combines Two of His Interests: Music and Abuse
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The Protagonist Wrestles with What in His Sometimes-Difficult Past was Real
Read MoreREVIEW: Jeffrey Eugenides' Fine New Story Collection is Full of 'Attention Grabbers'
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A Diverse Set of Lives, Full of Emotional Intensity
Read MoreREVIEW: Reexamining a Lost Era in American History: the Post-Civil War Years
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An Illuminating Survey of 1865-1896, Critical Years for the American Republic
Read MoreREVIEW: 'Doughnut Economics': A Humane, 21st Century Take on the Dismal Science
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With a Focus on Ensuring that Humanity's Basic Needs Get Met
Read MoreREVIEW: Jennifer Egan's 'Manhattan Beach' is an 'Astounding Eye-Opener'
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A Rich Period Story with a Blockbuster of an Ending
Read MoreREVIEW: A Stanford Professor's Guide to Handling Workplace 'Assholes'
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You Need a Plan, He Says, for Dealing with Toxic Colleagues
Read MoreREVIEW: They Saw the World Clearly: Churchill, Orwell, and the Fight Against Fascism
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Two Men Who Were Both More Right than Many of their Contemporaries
Read MoreREVIEW: Salman Rushdie's 'Golden House' is Tragedy, Odyssey, and Fairy Tale
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And a Caustic Examination of an Ill-Fated Family.
Read MoreREVIEW: Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M Forster--and a Magical Year
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For Modern Literature, 1922 Was the Beginning of Everything
Read MoreREVIEW: A New Biography Charts RFK's Idealistic Rise and Tragic End
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It Resurrects a Ghost who Reminds Us that Power Need not Harden and Corrupt
Read MoreREVIEW: What Made Maddy Run? And What Made Her Take Her Own Life?
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Trying to Make Sense of an Exceptional Student Athlete's Death
Read MoreREVIEW: Romps and Send-Offs: a Collection of Smart, Sardonic Literary Essays
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Kleinzahler is a poet with a real gift for writing prose
Read MoreREVIEW: Exploring the Secret History of American Racial Segregation
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And How it Created Our Current, Toxic Political Polarization
Read MoreREVIEW: A Novel that Explores a Famous Writer's Death, and its Aftermath
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Julia Glass Takes a Deep Dive into Celebrity Culture
Read MoreREVIEW: A Gruesome Child Murder, as Told by a Victim of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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A True Crime-Memoir Mashup that Has Strengths and Weaknesses
Read MoreREVIEW: An Infamous 1917 Missing-Girl Case, and the Woman Detective Who Solved It
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Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston Succeeded Where the Police Failed
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