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The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, “Someone Like Us.”

A roundtable of Book Review editors discuss what surprised them, what delighted them, what will send them back to their own shelves.

The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.

In his picaresque memoir, “My Glorious Defeats,” the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.