By the Book: Ron Chernow: By the Book
The author of “Hamilton,” “Titan” and most recently “Grant,” is a slow reader: “It’s a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books.”
Book News: A Batch of Letters by Harper Lee Come Up for Auction
The letters offer a glimpse into the final decade of the life of an intensely private author.
'Her Body and Other Parties' Charts Dark Territory With Enormous Style
The eight stories in Carmen Maria Machado's new collection feature women in extremis — physical danger, psychological meltdown, treacherous love or close encounters of a ghostly kind.
'Her Body and Other Parties' Charts Dark Territory With Enormous Style
The eight stories in Carmen Maria Machado's new collection feature women in extremis — physical danger, psychological meltdown, treacherous love or close encounters of a ghostly kind.
'Adèle Bedeau' Is A Delightfully Macabre Mix Of Text And Subtext
Graeme Macrae Burnet's stylish, atmospheric mystery can be read just as a dark little detective story — but it's worth paying attention to the novel's playful found-manuscript framing device.
(Image credit: Arcade Publishing)
'Adèle Bedeau' Is A Delightfully Macabre Mix Of Text And Subtext
Graeme Macrae Burnet's stylish, atmospheric mystery can be read just as a dark little detective story — but it's worth paying attention to the novel's playful found-manuscript framing device.
(Image credit: Arcade Publishing)
Fiction: King Lear Is Reborn as a 21st-Century Media Mogul
In Edward St. Aubyn’s novel “Dunbar,” Shakespeare’s tragedy is recast as a struggle for control over an irascible father’s corporate empire.
Fiction: Our Villains, Ourselves: A Thriller Roundup
Six spooky fall thrillers, whose plots range from a campus crime to an international spy hunt to a young girl’s mystical self-murdering, all unsettle the neat distinctions between “hero,” “villain,” and even the reader.
Fiction: A Novelist Asks, What if Women’s Bodies Became Deadly Weapons?
In “The Power,” by Naomi Alderman, women gain the ability to harness a dangerous electricity and the world starts to change in their favor.
#4: The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition
The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition
Nintendo (Author)
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Buy new: $79.99
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Nintendo (Author)
Release Date: April 24, 2018
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New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
#2: Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager (Author), Barbara Pierce Bush (Author), Laura Bush (Foreword)
Buy new: $28.00 $18.60
44 used & new from $17.36
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Jenna Bush Hager (Author), Barbara Pierce Bush (Author), Laura Bush (Foreword)
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#8: Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade (Author), Don Yaeger (Author)
Buy new: $28.00 $19.58
46 used & new from $18.45
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Brian Kilmeade (Author), Don Yaeger (Author)
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In 'Vacationland,' John Hodgman Turns His Pen On Himself
Hodgman's past few books have been jokey compendiums of fake knowledge, but with Vacationland he's getting a little realer with an achingly funny chronicle of his metamorphosis into middle age.
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Nonfiction: The Man Who Photographed Ghosts
Peter Manseau’s “The Apparitionists” reveals the art and trial of William H. Mumler, who stood at the intersection of 19th-century art, science and spiritualism.
Fiction: A Roundup of New Horror, All Indebted to an Early Master
Richard Matheson’s legacy is felt in stories of mysterious figures and horrible, dawning realities.
Fiction: A Prequel to ‘Practical Magic’ Revisits the Owens Family
In “The Rules of Magic,” Alice Hoffman provides a back story for the witchy aunts readers first met in her 1995 novel, “Practical Magic.”
Match Book: Dear Match Book: I (Seek Those Who) See Dead People
Novels from the frolicking to the infernal that fuse the natural world with supernatural phenomena.
#4: Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right
Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right
Ken Stern (Author)
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Release Date: October 24, 2017
Buy new: $27.99 $18.29
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Ken Stern (Author)
(1)
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Buy new: $27.99 $18.29
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Books of The Times: ‘Sticky Fingers’ Captures Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner and the Culture He Helped Create
The biographer Joe Hagan understands why a rock magazine editor matters to the history of the 20th century.
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