Nonfiction: Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch
Joseph Crespino’s “biography” of the virtuous lawyer in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and the real man he was modeled after, brings to life the inconsistencies of the South.
Nonfiction: An Exhaustive Analysis of Harper Lee’s Enduring Legacy in America
Tom Santopietro’s “Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Matters” is painstakingly researched, if substantively and structurally flawed.
#7: Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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'Where The Nightmares Go' Maps The Territory Of Fear
C. Robert Cargill's new story collection covers the globe and genres of horror from classic to modern, with ghost stories, thrillers, gore and puzzles that would be right at home on premium cable.
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'The Secret Life of Cows' Aims To Show Animals As Thinking, Feeling Beings
Farmer Rosamund Young's book will charm people who want to lap up more evidence that animals have personalities, but may not warm hearts of animal lovers who don't eat meat.
In June, Make Your Escape With These 3 Hot Reads
Summer's getting hotter, so here are three romances guaranteed to raise your temperature and take you on an adventure, from London's West End to Barcelona to a Harvard University classroom.
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In 'Fight No More,' Life Rushes By, But Sometime's There's Beauty
Lydia Millet's latest is a novel about death, disguised as a short story collection about real estate, alternately wrenching and hilarious, and full of joys on every scale.
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Fiction: Twins, Foils, Frauds: A Posthumous Novel on the Puzzle of Free Will
In “The Solitary Twin,” by Harry Mathews, fractured identities come together in small, miraculous revelations that never feel contrived at all.
The Book Review Podcast: The Things We Inherit
Carl Zimmer discusses “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh,” and Henry Alford talks about “And Then We Danced.”
Fiction: In This Novel, a First-Grader Survives a School Shooting. His Older Brother Does Not.
The 6-year-old narrator of Rhiannon Navin’s debut, “Only Child,” tries to decipher the grief that transforms his parents.
Nonfiction: A Writer Recalls Her Schoolgirl Crush on a Deranged Tennis Coach
In “You All Grow Up and Leave Me,” Piper Weiss remembers an infamous attack in the 1990s, and the man who was allowed to get alarmingly close to the female students who idolized him.
Nonfiction: You Say ‘To-may-to,’ I Say ‘To-mah-to’
Lynne Murphy’s “The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English” depicts nations divided by a common language.
Inside the List: What Would You Do if You Found a Bag Crammed With Cash?
That’s the question Catherine Steadman explores in her tense debut thriller, “Something in the Water.”
Nonfiction: Why Trump Voters Supported Trump
“The Great Revolt,” by Salena Zito and Brad Todd, allows Trump backers to speak in their own voices.
The Shortlist: To the Poles — Before They Started Melting
A new book charts the effects of climate change while two others return readers to the great age of Arctic and Antarctic exploration.
New in Paperback: ‘Why Buddhism Is True,’ ‘The End of Eddy’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: Terrorists Killed 12 Nepalese Men. Was an American Military Contractor to Blame?
In “The Girl From Kathmandu,” Cam Simpson investigates the deaths of a dozen laborers en route to an American military base where they had never intended to go.
Essay: No Two People Read Exactly the Same Book, and That’s a Good Thing
Reading to his son, who has cerebral palsy, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher discovers the many-layered pleasures of sharing an experience that is inherently private.
Sketchbook: Left to Their Own (Literary) Devices
Grant Snider provides an illustrated reminder of what happens when kids are left to roam the stacks of a library.
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