Ashley Wurzbacher’s debut, “Happy Like This,” is among this fall’s standout story collections.
In “No Stopping Us Now,” the Times columnist takes a jaunty look at the place of older women throughout America’s history.
The narrator of Edna O’Brien’s novel “Girl” is kidnapped by jihadi fighters in northeastern Nigeria. She returns home bearing a jihadi’s child.
Deborah Levy’s latest novel, “The Man Who Saw Everything,” experiments with time travel, history and the endless complications of love.
A selection of recent poetry books; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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In “Rusty Brown,” Chris Ware spans lives, generations and even universes. But somehow all roads lead back to Nebraska, where he grew up.
Robert Bilott was a corporate defense lawyer when a stranger shared a theory about why his cows were dying. “Exposure” is his story of what happened next.
In “Erosion,” Terry Tempest Williams delivers a clarion call for decency, humanity and preservation.
Extremely personal, emotionally gritty, and unabashedly honest, Saeed Jones' memoir somehow manages a perfect balance between love and violence, hope and hostility, transformation and resentment.
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Deborah Levy's new book considers themes of objectification, betrayal and focus, centered on a historian who goes to East Berlin and finds himself both the observer and the observed.
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“Self-Portrait in Black and White,” by Thomas Chatterton Williams, is the author’s searching account about what it means to embrace a racial identity — and then to cast it off.
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John Hornor Jacobs' new book combines two novellas that stake his claim to the territory of cosmic horror. Both gorgeously written and unsettlingly conceived, they dig at how fragile our humanity is.
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Author and poet Brynne Rebele-Henry transplants the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice to modern-day Texas, for a wrenching tale of two young women whose love lands them in a religious re-education camp.
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In her new book, Heidi Heilig continues the tale of family, rebellion and necromancy begun in For a Muse of Fire. Heilig tackles difficult issues deftly, and sets up readers for a rousing conclusion.
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Should an author’s family have a say in what the author chooses to write about them?
Author: Renck, Johan, 1966- television director. Mazin, Craig, 1971- creator, screenwriter. Wohlenberg, Sanne, 1968- television producer. Harris, Jared, 1961- actor. Skarsgård, Stellan, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: CHERNOBY
Format: Video disc
Summary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Author: Dauberman, Gary, screenwriter, film director. Wan, James, 1977- screenwriter, film producer. Safran, Peter, 1965- film producer. Wilson, Patrick, 1973- actor. Farmiga, Vera, actor.
Published: 2019
Call Number: ANNABELL
Format: Video disc
Summary: Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her 'safely' behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest's holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target, the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.
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