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Review: In ‘More,’ Dispatches From Hell by a Human Trafficker
This novel by Hakan Gunday is a vivid tour of the nightmares endured by refugees headed to Europe, told by a young smuggler who learns to exploit them.
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Review: An Account of Black Albino Brothers in Beth Macy’s ‘Truevine’
Ms. Macy’s second book explores the true story of George and Willie Muse, black men in the Jim Crow South who were paraded in circuses.
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High Praise for a Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical
Francine Prose’s new novel, “Mister Monkey,” is about a group of characters involved in an off-off-off-off Broadway production.
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Bridget Jones’s Latest Movie, Now a Novel
In Helen Fielding’s “Bridget Jones’s Baby,” Jones is pregnant but isn’t sure of the father.
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CreditPierre Guillaud/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Bob Dylan the Writer: An Authentic American Voice
The Nobel Prize award only confirms what has long been sensed: that Mr. Dylan is among the most authentic voices the nation has ever produced.
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CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times Review: The Anti-Clinton Brigade’s Four-Letter Word Obsession
Edward Klein’s “Guilty as Sin,” Gary J. Byrne’s “Crisis of Character” and other books suggest that Hillary Clinton curses like a sailor. And they take umbrage.
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CreditEdward Monaghan Kurt Andersen Praises Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel
Jonathan Lethem’s “A Gambler’s Anatomy” features high-stakes backgammon, murky conspiracies, and a not-quite-hard-boiled hero and the shady women he finds irresistible.
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CreditFrom "Hitler: Ascent" A New Biography of Hitler Separates the Man From the Myths
In “Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939,” Volker Ullrich focuses on Hitler the man.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Review: In ‘News of the World,’ Unlikely Companions Bond on a Perilous Journey
During the Texas winter of 1870, a war veteran who works as a news reader agrees to bring a rescued orphan to San Antonio to find her closest living relatives.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times In Jonathan Lethem’s ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy,’ a Hustler’s Luck Turns Cold
A backgammon player who can sometimes read minds shuttles among casinos across Europe and Asia. Too bad about the grim diagnosis.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Review: Elena Ferrante Wants Privacy. Her New Book Implies Otherwise.
In “Frantumaglia,” a collection of essays, letters and interviews, she undermines her declaration that her work is “self-sufficient” and that she should be anonymous.
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CreditScott Morgan ‘Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor’ Charts a Kinetic Scene in the Early ’80s
Tim Lawrence’s book depicts a gritty commingling of punk bands, graffiti artists and hip-hop D.J.s that sent sparks flying before economic forces remolded the city.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times 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.
