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The author of “The Last Tudor” is no fan of “sloppy genre novels”: “The typing alone is so exhausting — surely if you’re going to undertake 150,000 words, you might as well have something interesting to say?”
Two biographies — of Simon Bolívar and Hugo Chávez — explain the men’s outsized influence on the country, and another book offers a path forward.
Bill Goldstein’s “The World Broke in Two” looks at four British writers — Woolf, Eliot, Forster and Lawrence — at a turning point in history.
In Julia Glass’s novel, “A House Among the Trees,” a renowned author suddenly dies, leaving his longtime assistant to untangle his knotty legacy.
The troubled family in J. Robert Lennon’s “Broken River” discovers that small-town life offers no refuge.
Erica Wagner’s “Chief Engineer,” a biography of Washington Roebling, describes both his innovations and his lifelong hardships.
Jami Attenberg reviews Heather Chaplin’s “Reckless Years,” a memoir of an unhappy marriage that gave way to a tumultuous journey of self-discovery.
An ensemble cast is gathered in Ashley Shelby’s novel, “South Pole Station,” to witness the tragicomic results of a climate-change denier’s arrival.
These three books peek behind the curtain of the multibillion-dollar fragrance industry.
Marilyn Stasio’s crime column features mothers in distress, a missing brother and a detective coming face to face with a son he didn’t know he had.
Our Match Book columnist offers insightful life studies, correspondence and peeks into the curio cabinet, for fans of biographies of creative types.
In “Buddhism Is True,” Robert Wright looks at the psychological benefits of a Buddhist practice.
In Allegra Goodman’s novel “The Chalk Artist,” the world of online gaming threatens to destroy the lives of two young men.
More than a dozen new books feature young displaced Muslims as protagonists as writers use the current tumult to personalize the conflicts for readers.
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, a daughter of Lady Antonia and Sir Hugh, discusses a dishy new memoir inspired by Andy Warhol and others in his circle.
The celestial phenomenon will be fully visible in 14 states across the United States. These books tell you all you need to know.
The crime writer Elizabeth Peters (a.k.a. Barbara Mertz) died in 2013. But her friend and fellow novelist Joan Hess has completed her last manuscript.
Schumer discusses her memoir, and Gregory Cowles talks about new books of poetry.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Suggested reading from editors and critics at The New York Times.
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