Fiction: An Oliver Twist of the Congo, With a Bitter Twist of Fate
The orphan narrator of Alain Mabanckou’s “Black Moses” is among the novelist’s most heartbreaking and darkly humorous creations.
By the Book: Calvin Trillin: By the Book
The humorist, memoirist and journalist likes the way H.L. Mencken expressed himself, for instance in his definition of Puritanism: “The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
Books of The Times: Hunted at the Zoo in ‘Fierce Kingdom’
When a mundane setting turns lethal, a mother and her 4-year-old son find themselves becoming prey in Gin Phillips’s new thriller.
Open Book: Going After Big Prey
“Shark Drunk” is about two friends in search of a Greenland shark, which can grow up to 24 feet long and weigh up to 2,500 pounds.
We All Live In The Dark, But Some Of Us Live In 'The Dark Dark'
Samantha Hunt's new story collection dissects the unique strangeness of women's lives, mixing eerie fantasy with solid literary sensibility and a knack for strange and lovely set pieces.
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Nonfiction: Two Testimonials Shed Light on Syrian Life and Death
Alia Malek’s “The Home That Was Our Country” and Wendy Pearlman’s “We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled” channel voices from Syria’s war zone.
Nonfiction: A Polish Poet Leaves Verse Behind, but Not His Lost City
Whatever the prose in “Slight Exaggeration” settles on — art, family, war, ideology — Adam Zagajewski is always writing about displacement.
Nonfiction: The Birth of the Modern Middle East
In “The Islamic Enlightenment,” Christopher de Ballaigue reveals the Middle Eastern political and intellectual figures who grappled with modernity after Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798.
Fiction: A First Novel, Wrestling With the Will to Rule the Mat
Gabe Habash’s debut, “Stephen Florida,” tracks the title character’s drive to succeed as a college wrestler.
#3: Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Brené Brown (Author)
Release Date: September 12, 2017
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#4: Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Joshua Green (Author)
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'Arbitrary Stupid Goal' Is Neither Arbitrary Nor Stupid
Tamara Shopsin's quirky, lively memoir of her unconventional Greenwich Village childhood is packed with vivid details about the cast of characters who populated her parents' corner store-turned-diner.
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Taut Spy Action Takes Place Over Tea 'At The Table Of Wolves'
Kay Kenyon's new thriller is set in an alternate-history version of World War II, where the traumas of the previous war caused a bloom of psychic talents — talents the Nazis want to exploit.
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Fiction: A Novel Looks Back at a Woman’s Idealistic Days in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War casts its shadow over an elderly 21st-century American and her granddaughter in Mary Gordon’s novel “There Your Heart Lies.”
Nonfiction: How Steve Bannon and Donald Trump Rode the Honey Badger Into the White House
Joshua Green’s “Devil’s Bargain” tells the story of the alt-right impresario who invigorated Trump’s campaign and influences his presidency.
Jet-Setting Vacationers Find Trouble In Paradise In 'Beautiful Animals'
Two entitled young women vacationing on a chic Greek island get involved with a mysterious stranger in Lawrence Osborne's new novel. Critic John Powers calls it a "seductively menacing new thriller."
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Nonfiction: You May Not Know His Name, but You’ve Seen His Pictures of Sarah Bernhardt
In “The Great Nadar,” Adam Begley recounts the life story of a French photographer who had an antic personality and a gift for self-promotion.
Nonfiction: The Campaigns, Causes and Controversies of Five American Radicals
A century ago, Jeremy McCarter’s “young radicals” embraced reform from labor struggles to women’s suffrage to the antiwar effort.
Fiction: This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’
“The Changeling,” by Victor LaValle, is a dark fairy tale of a father’s frantic quest through New York City.
#6: The Late Show
The Late Show
Michael Connelly (Author)
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Release Date: July 18, 2017
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