8 New Books We Recommend This Week

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Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics

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She Face-Planted Into Her Salad at the Country Club. Who Killed Her?

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Why Write About Pop Music? ‘I Like When People Disagree About Stuff.’

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The I Survived Series is a Survivor on the Best-Seller List

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Dasani Showed Us What It’s Like to Grow Up Homeless. She’s Still Struggling.

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Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback

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Newly Published, From the AIDS Crisis to Anthony Bourdain

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4 New Audiobooks to Listen To This Week

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Forget the ‘Hero’s Journey’ and Consider the Heroine’s Quest Instead

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Phoebe Robinson’s new essay collection is a sharp, sweet-salty pleasure

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I love books about books. Here are seven of my current favorites.

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When the Times Book Review Panned the Classics

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14 New Books Coming in October

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In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress

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10 books to read in October

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Remember Elvira? The mistress of the dark is still here, and she has some bombshells to drop.

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Anthony Doerr’s ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is a convoluted love letter to books

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Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’

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‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ by Anthony Doerr: An Excerpt

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The Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s First Novel Since 1973

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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Touch of Evil

“Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth” is at once political satire and murder mystery, and a lament for the spirit of his native Nigeria.

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The Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s First Novel Since 1973

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Humanity Is Stupid, Helpless and Possibly Worth Saving

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The True Story of Robert E. Lee

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From Joshua Ferris: A Father’s Scattershot Legacy, Narrated Unreliably

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Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy

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Kevin Young’s Latest Poems Are at Play Among the Dead

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‘Lean Fall Stand’ opens with a literal cliffhanger you won’t soon forget

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In ‘Rites,’ Savannah Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence with stunning clarity

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If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas.

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Wole Soyinka Is Not Going Anywhere

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Russ Kick, writer, editor and ‘rogue transparency activist,’ dies at 52

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Charles G. Sellers, Historian Who Upset the Postwar Consensus, Dies at 98

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A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China

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Randall Kennedy on ‘Say It Loud!’

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When a President Wrote for the Book Review

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Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language

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Animals and humans on a collision course (sometimes literally)

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How to fritter away a family fortune

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A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany

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Recovering from a workplace crisis, with ideas for fixing our civic crisis

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Thieving monkeys and felonious caterpillars: Mary Roach’s research for ‘Fuzz’ was full of surprises

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Woke academics, Donald Trump and George Will’s ire

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From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done

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New in Paperback: ‘The Devil You Know’ and ‘The Lying Life of Adults’

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The Ecstasy of Scientific Discovery, and Its Agonizing Price

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Sally Rooney’s Riposte, Ralph Nader’s Candidacy and Other Letters to the Editor

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8 New Books We Recommend This Week

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