Two Horror Authors on the Scary Books You Should Read

Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.

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Taking on Nora Ephron, Movie by Movie and Book by Book

Ephron’s entire oeuvre — “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Heartburn” and more — is examined in a new book.

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2 Novels About Complicated Nuns

An atheist in a convent; a bloodthirsty reality show hostess.

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In This Biography, Mitch McConnell Hates Trump but Loves Power More

“The Price of Power,” by Michael Tackett, reveals a legislator for whom political survival has been a top priority — even when it means supporting a “sleazeball” for the presidency.

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Hollywood Can Be Hell for a Writer. 2 New Books Fan the Flames.

Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.

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A Fan Discovers a New Story by the Author of ‘Dracula’

The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.

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How White Greed Destroyed a Bank for the Newly Freed

A book by the historian Justene Hill Edwards charts the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank, founded at the end of the Civil War for the formerly enslaved.

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A More Freewheeling Book Lives Inside Al Pacino’s Memoir

From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.”

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A Schizophrenia Diagnosis Sets Off a Reckoning With Mental Illness

In “No One Gets to Fall Apart,” the TV writer Sarah LaBrie follows the breadcrumbs of her mother’s disorder back to her childhood, and beyond.

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The Scientists Who Hoarded Seeds Even as They Were Starving

In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life.

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Marie Curie: Mentor to Women or Martyr to Science?

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab.

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Jami Attenberg Can’t Wait to Find a Book She’s Inscribed at a Yard Sale

“I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See You Again.”

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From Melania Trump: Modeling, Motherhood and a Brazen Whitewash of a Presidency

Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.

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2 Books About Old Flames

Stephen McCauley’s novel about ex-spouses reuniting, in a sense; Jim Shepard’s noir about a fateful hit-and-run.

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5 Picture Books About Space, From the Sublime to the Silly

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond.

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Read Your Way Around Hawaii

To read Hawaii is to understand that much of it will never be accessible to the masses. The writer Megan Kamalei Kakimoto recommends books that illuminate the islands’ rich history and storytelling spirit.

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If You Liked the Plot in ‘The Plot,’ Then You’ll Love Its Sequel, ‘The Sequel’

Jean Hanff Korelitz follows her hit thriller with the related tale of a novelist hounded by anonymous threats. But this writer aggressively aims to turn the page.

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