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Review: ‘All That Man Is,’ and a Lot He Is Not, in David Szalay’s View
A novel as a collection of linked short stories about masculinity under duress, by one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young British Novelists.
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Review: When Reading Tana French’s Ingenious New Novel, Assume Nothing
Ms. French’s “The Trespasser” reunites two detectives to investigate the murder of a young woman whose Dream Date Barbie looks are part of the mystery.
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Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot
Zink’s latest novel is a sexy tale about young activist squatters who are forced to leave their home and disperse across the country.
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H. W. Brands: By the Book
The historian and author, most recently, of “The General vs. the President” has a thing for Gore Vidal as an essayist, but “his historical novels set my teeth on edge.”
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Review: ‘Rogue Heroes,’ the Birth of Britain’s Elite Special Forces
Ben Macintyre tells the story of mavericks who formed a commando unit that would become the model for special forces around the world.
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CreditJoseph Michael Lopez for The New York Times Can You Be Black and Republican?
“Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOP” and “Black Elephants in the Room” explore conservatism, politics and race.
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CreditPhoebe Jones ‘The Bitch in the House’ Has a Sequel: ‘The Bitch Is Back’
An anthology edited by Cathi Hanauer taps the experiences of women reporting from middle age.
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Credit Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards
A closer look at the finalists for the Booker Prize and National Book Awards, and the contenders for the Nobel Prize.
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All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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CreditJessica Spilos Review: These Short Stories Ask, How Does Technology Affect Us?
“Children of the New World,” by Alexander Weinstein imagines the world and technology evolving in complex and morally challenging ways.
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CreditAlessandra Montalto/The New York Times Maria Semple’s ‘Today Will Be Different’ Serves Up Screwball With Soul
Ms. Semple’s follow-up to “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” can be as outrageously funny, but this book cuts closer to the bone with less satire.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs
Michael McCarthy’s book is both a paean to the earth’s beauty and an elegy for it.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times In ‘Hitler,’ an Ascent From ‘Dunderhead’ to Demagogue
A new biography portrays Hitler as a clownish, deceitful narcissist who took control of a powerful nation thanks to slick propaganda and a dysfunctional elite that failed to block his rise.
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CreditHillery Stone Sharon Olds, Laureate of Sexuality, Scrutinizes the Body in ‘Odes’
This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s latest collection continues to push boundaries, and includes some of the best and most ingenious poems of her career.
