Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone
The writer Svetlana Alexievich, the author of oral histories who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, has given voice to thousands of ordinary Russians.
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‘LaRose,’ by Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich’s latest novel asks a deceptively simple question: Can a person “do the worst thing possible and still be loved”?
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Gillian Flynn on Emma Thompson Reading ‘The Turn of the Screw’
The mendacious children in a Henry James ghost story lean toward danger.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee: By the Book
The author of “The Emperor of All Maladies” read some bizarre things researching his latest book, “The Gene,” “including comics from the 1950s that fantasized about future human mutants.”
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CreditSonny Figueroa, via The New York Times Review: ‘Sweetbitter,’ a ‘Bright Lights, Big City’ for the Restaurant Set
Stephanie Danler’s first novel is about a young woman who falls deeply into her work in New York City’s restaurant world.
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CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times Scarlett Johansson’s Latest: Narration of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’
Two recordings give voice to classic tales from the children’s canon.
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CreditNishant Choksi In the Know
How to dress like a boss, speak like a prime mover, read scrawls like a sleuth and live like the French.
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CreditState History Museum, Moscow, via Hulton Archive/Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images ‘The Romanovs: 1613-1918,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore
A vast chronicle of the Romanovs’ three centuries of rule is essentially a family story.
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CreditTim Hetherington Review: Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’ Examines Disbanded Brothers Returning to a Divided Country
“Tribe” examines the benefits of small societies, citing Native American cultures and military outposts, among others, as examples.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Review: A New Antihero From Steve Hamilton
In “The Second Life of Nick Mason,” the award-winning crime novelist introduces a tightly wound character forced into being a kingpin’s pawn.
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CreditMatt Stuart Review: Geoff Dyer Asks Why We Visit the Places We Do
‘White Sands’ makes for a humorous and thoughtful examination of the reasons we ache to travel.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Review: Nathaniel Philbrick’s ‘Valiant Ambition’ Revisits Benedict Arnold
Mr. Philbrick illustrates Washington’s warring instincts but few of his interactions with Arnold.
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CreditAlessandra Montalto/The New York Times Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life
Ted Geltner’s biography “Blood, Bone and Marrow” traces the many stories of Mr. Crews, the writer who became a gifted and satirical mayhem artist.
