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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
“On the House” is an anecdote-rich memoir by the former speaker of the House that fails to give readers the whole picture.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In Brian Alexander’s “The Hospital,” an intimate portrait of a small hospital in Bryan, Ohio.
Her poem “The Hill We Climb” is now a commemorative hardcover edition.
In “Good Company,” Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney explores the long friendship and occasional secrets of two couples.
As a child, the novelist found consolation in books that embraced American rugged individualism and the Korean quest for knowledge. Those same books showed her how to honor the stories of the people she grew up with.
In “Beeswing,” one of the great pioneers of folk-rock looks back on his early years.
It begins with a middle school teacher’s assignment to her class: “Imagine that your home is on fire. You’re allowed to save one thing.”
Kate Lebo’s “The Book of Difficult Fruit” extracts history — and personal memory — out of the plant kingdom.
In Morgan Jerkins’s “Caul Baby,” one family has the life-giving medicine every childbearing woman needs.
An excerpt from “Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism and Treason,” by Gina Frangello
An excerpt from “Broken Horses: A Memoir,” by Brandi Carlile
In the winter of 2019, a family traveled on a literary pilgrimage to the Oregon city that left its mark on the celebrated author’s imagination.
In “Blow Your House Down,” Gina Frangello examines her experience of loss, lust, pain and longing with angry intensity.
In “Peaces,” young lovers and their pet mongooses take a WesAnderson-style ride on a train to nowhere.
“Paradise, Nevada,” Dario Diofebi’s debut novel, follows four characters through the daily dramas of the desert city.
Simon Heffer’s “The Age of Decadence” describes a society in ferment and a complacent ruling class.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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