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Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’
This collection of newly discovered stories is part of a large body of work by this filmmaker, playwright and writer, who died young.
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‘Born a Crime,’ Trevor Noah’s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid
His memoir provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid, and the country’s entry into a postapartheid era.
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CreditRoman Muradov 100 Notable Books of 2016
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
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Itineraries Await in the Season’s Best Travel Books
New travel books include “The Timbuktu School for Nomads” and “The Humorless Ladies of Border Control.”
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CreditRoman Muradov This Season’s Best Books on Hollywood
New books by and about movie stars include a collection of photos and writing by Alan Cumming, a memoir by Tippi Hedren, “The Tao of Bill Murray” and more.
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CreditGeorge Brich/Associated Press Carrie Fisher Has More to Say About Her Life in ‘Star Wars’
In “The Princess Diarist,” Carrie Fisher dishes about her life inside the “Star Wars” industrial complex. SPOILER ALERT!
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CreditMichael Ochs Archives/Getty Images A New Biography of Joan Rivers
Leslie Bennetts’s “Last Girl Before Freeway” revisits milestones in Joan Rivers’s life, like her childhood, marriage and famous break with Johnny Carson.
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CreditHulton Archive/Getty Images Review: ‘By Women Possessed,’ a Remix of a Flawed Eugene O’Neill
This book by Arthur and Barbara Gelb expresses a professional admiration for Mr. O’Neill but goes into great detail about the unflattering parts of his life.
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Creditvia New Vessel Press Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water
A book by Salvatore Settis, an art historian and chairman of the Louvre Museum’s Scientific Council, sounds the alarm about Italy’s fabled metropolis.
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CreditAdrian Cook Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts
This book of selected poems from 1968 to 2014, which takes traditional verse forms and retools them, is powerful and filled with catharses.
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CreditNobuyoshi Araki Review: ‘Absolutely on Music’ Gives a Maestro a Stage for Ideas
The conductor Seiji Ozawa and Haruki Murakami had conversations between November 2010 and July 2011, generally while listening to recordings.
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CreditBrad Barket/Getty Images for Comedy Central Review: ‘The Daily Show (The Book)’ Reveals How Jon Stewart Made News
This “oral history” seeks a serious understanding of everything about Mr. Stewart, especially the thinking that made the show what it was.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Review: ‘Bellevue’ Celebrates a Hospital Not Crazy, but Compassionate
This book by David Oshinsky, subtitled “Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital,” traces a New York institution’s resilience.
