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In Benjamin Taylor’s memoir, “The Hue and Cry at Our House,” the Kennedy assassination casts a shadow over one Texas family’s personal dramas.
Mark Bowden’s “Hue 1968” recounts a battle that was a turning point in the Vietnam War.
Recommendations for a new devotee of short fiction include books by Nam Le, Deborah Eisenberg and Edward P. Jones.
In “Love, Africa,” Jeffrey Gettleman describes his enduring preoccupation with the continent and the career it has engendered.
Animals fare really badly in “The Zoo,” Isobel Charman’s entertaining account of the London Zoo’s 19th-century origins.
In “Return to Glory” — part business book, part adventure saga — Matthew DeBord chronicles the Ford Motor Company’s attempt to compete at Le Mans.
The strange case of Curtis Dawkins: How a convicted murderer ended up with a major book deal at one of the country’s top publishing houses.
Jon Meacham looks at three signature works about Watergate — by Elizabeth Drew, Art Buchwald and Theodore H. White — to see how the news of the ’70s resonates.
Aaron Retica talks about Tim Marshall’s “A Flag Worth Dying For,” and Jill Eisenstadt discusses her new novel, “Swell.”
“I was very struck by how beautiful this area was,” the eco-minded South Carolina novelist Mary Alice Monroe says, “and how quickly it can disappear.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
August Kleinzahler’s double poetry collection, “Before Dawn on Bluff Road” and “Hollyhocks in the Fog,” shows how grounded he is in a sense of place.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In Delphine de Vigan’s novel “Based on a True Story,” a novelist’s new friend insinuates herself into every aspect of the writer’s life.
In Barbara Gowdy’s novel “Little Sister,” a flash of lightning temporarily transports a woman into a fascinating new self.
Tim Marshall’s “A Flag Worth Dying For” looks at flags around the world — and what they mean.
One small Pentagon enclave spawned stealth aircraft, armed drones and the internet. Fred Kaplan tells the story of Darpa in “The Imagineers of War.”
In “Compass,” Mathias Énard’s odd and masterful novel, a Viennese musicologist is lost in dreams of a Levantine past.
Rescued from a Belgian archive, “An English Governess in the Great War” is the diary kept by Mary Thorp in Brussels during the German occupation.
How responsibility came to mean accountability — and why that matters for issues of justice and welfare reform.
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