Fiction: Life, Love and Mortality in the City of Light
A septuagenarian cellist faces down his personal and professional losses in Mark Helprin’s novel “Paris in the Present Tense.”
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Nonfiction: ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Eric Garner’s Life and Death
In “I Can’t Breathe,” Matt Taibbi reports on the people and the policies that shaped the course of Garner’s life.
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Nonfiction: The Day Wall Street Collapsed
Diana B. Henriques’s “A First-Class Catastrophe” is a minute-by-minute account of the stock market disaster of Oct. 19, 1987.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Elizabeth Hardwick Showed What Essays Could Do
“The Collected Essays,” edited by Darryl Pinckney, reveal as much about who Hardwick was as they do about the fiction she loved.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: The First Modern President
Robert W. Merry’s “President McKinley” argues for the centrality of a generally forgotten chief executive.
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Alan Dershowitz’s review of “Scalia Speaks” and implore Ron Chernow to rethink his ideal dinner guests.
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Audiobooks: Nate Dern Narrates His Schizophrenic but Substantive Collection of Writings
In the audiobook edition of “Not Quite a Genius,” a senior writer for Funny or Die explores an impressive medley of forms, themes and voices.
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Audiobooks: ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ Reveals Its Mysteries Anew
In a new audiobook, Kenneth Branagh reads one of Agatha Christie’s most convoluted and ingenious plots.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Shortlist: Other People’s Minds: Four New Story Collections
These books are linked by their interest in extreme psychological and emotional states, from paranoia to obsession to forbidden love.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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