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A Gentler Jack Reacher Emerges in Lee Child’s Latest Novel
“The Midnight Line” has “more emotional heft than anything Child has written before.”
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CreditRyan Pfluger for The New York Times Joe Biden Talks About His New Memoir, ‘Promise Me, Dad’
The former vice president writes about facing the death of his son Beau, deciding not to pursue a presidential run and dealing with foreign crises.
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In Alan Bennett’s Diaries, Life’s Pleasures Alongside Civic Outrage
“Keeping On Keeping On” collects the British playwright’s diaries from 2005 to 20015, which include his thoughts on everything from pigeons to politics.
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Amid African Extremism, a Writer Finds an ‘Ordinary and Rare Kind of Bravery’
Alexis Okeowo’s book “A Moonless, Starless Sky” profiles regular people living in defiance of extremist movements across the African continent.
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CreditBrad Ogbonna for The New York Times In an Age of Fake News, a Historian of the Hoax
Every era gets the chronicler it deserves. Kevin Young, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, tracks the progression of bunk through the ages.
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CreditAndrew White for The New York Times ‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner’s Foray Into Fiction
After the popular television series ended, everyone was waiting for his next TV show. Instead, he wrote a novel.
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CreditMargaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images A Novelist Confronts the Complex Relationship Between Japan and Korea
Min Jin Lee, the author of “Pachinko,” discusses her book and the remnants of discrimination against Koreans by the Japanese.
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Russell Shorto talks about “Revolution Song,” and Richard Aldous discusses his new biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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Credit A Frisky Debate Between Friends About Growing Old
In “Aging Thoughtfully,” Martha C. Nussbaum and Saul Levmore discuss the merits of planned retirement communities, cosmetic surgical procedures and more.
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Credit Walter Isaacson’s ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Is the Portrait of a Real Renaissance Man
Isaacson’s latest biography of a celebrated visionary captures the perfectionist, misser of deadlines and remarkably prescient genius.
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Credit Vivian Maier, Through a Clearer Lens
Pamela Bannos’s biography sees past the myth of one of the 20th century’s great photographers.
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Credit ‘Poet in Spain’ Offers New Translations of Lorca’s Soulful Work
The translator Sarah Arvio bypasses Federico García Lorca’s New York poems, focusing instead on what she calls his “moonlit earthbound Spanish poems.”
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Credit John Grisham Prosecutes For-Profit Law Schools in ‘The Rooster Bar’
Grisham’s new novel translates the ethical and economic issues raised by student-entrapping practices into the high drama of a swift legal thriller.
