5 HOT BOOKS: Irving Berlin's Glamorous Life, Revenge after Auschwitz, and More
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And a Writer Gets Honest About the Difficulties of Writing about Beckett and de Beauvoir
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REVIEW: What Can a Nanny Do When the Kids are Prone to Spontaneously Combust?
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An ‘Electifyingly Bizarre’ Novel About Caring for “Normal Kids Who Just Catch on Fire”
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And a Democratic Senator Looks at 8 Progressive Senators Who Sat at His Desk Before Him
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Strout Alternates Among the Dark and the Disquieting, the Ordinary and the Luminous
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And Investigating the Shadowy, Alarming World of Right-Wing Political Money
Read MoreVIDEO: It's Sylvia Plath's Birthday. Listen to this Short, Wonderful Interview with Her
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She Discusses Poetry, Mental Hospitals, and Why Her interest in Concentration Camps Was “Uniquely Intense.”
Read MoreREVIEW: Zadie Smith's Short Story Collection is Lit -- in Every Sense of the Word
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Smith’s First Collection Offers Dazzling Prose and Heartbreaking Characters
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: A Humorist on Why Elitism is Better than Trumpism, Elaine Stritch, and More
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And a Beguiling New Memoir from Dancer and Choreographer Mark Morris
Read MoreREVIEW: Elizabeth Strout's Beloved Olive Kitteridge is Back, Better than Ever
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Strout Vividly Conveys the Delicate Balance Between the Desire to Leave Home and the Desperate Need to Return
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Ronan Farrow on Sex Predators, Gail Collins on Older Women, and More
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And What Happens When a Black Man Has a Daughter Who is Blond and Blue-Eyed?
Read MoreREVIEW: Obama's National Security Adviser Recalls a Time When Our Foreign Policy Wasn't Crazy
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Susan Rice’s Memoir Harks Back to a Time of Competence and Idealism — 3 Years ago
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And How We Should Be Fighting Disinformation Around the World
Read MoreREVIEW: What are We To Make of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hemingway?
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Some True Greatness, Some Overrated Work, and a Lot of Tragic Self-Destruction
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: A Timely Book on Whistleblowers, Immigration Nightmares, and More
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And a Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, a Very Complicated Genius
Read MoreQ&A: Legendary Vietnam War Writer Phil Caputo on His New Novel in Stories
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Hunter’s Moon is, Caputo Says, Largely about Masculine Relationships
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Rocker Patti Smith's Moving Memoir, Ta-Nehisi Coates's Novel, and More
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And a Timely Look at the Racial Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Read MoreREVIEW: Nicholas Lemann on How the New Capitalism is Destroying America
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Radical Libertarianism, He Argues, is Driving Our Soaring Levels of Inequality
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Breaking the Harvey Weinstein Story, the Life of Susan Sontag, and More
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And a New Biography Explores the Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg
Read MoreQ&A: Christine Sneed Talks with Chris Fink About Short Stories, Male Rage, and More
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And Making New Contributions to the Tradition of Midwestern Literature.
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Trump and Television, America the Transactional Nation, and More
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And Margaret Atwood Returns to Gilead, with a Follow-Up to the Handmaid’s Tale
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And a beautifully written memoir from the son of two famous 1960s radicals