The True Story of the Texas Rangers
Doug J. Swanson’s “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” recounts tales of lynchings, massacres and ruthless white supremacy.
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An American Writer Goes Into the Jungle to Commune With a Tiger
In her new memoir, “All the Way to the Tigers,” Mary Morris, acting on dreams she’s had since she was a child, travels to India to come eye to eye with a big cat.
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Will Miami Be Around in 2067?
In “Disposable City,” Mario Alejandro Ariza reckons with what climate change has in store for the spicy city on the Atlantic.
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A French Writer Who Blurred the Line Between Candor and Provocation
More work by Hervé Guibert, who died at 36 in 1991, is being made available in English, including his great AIDS novel “To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life.”
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A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives
Susan Howe’s new book, “Concordance,” pastes together collages of word and thought from old letters, manuscripts and (yes) concordances.
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A Facebook Post Lands an Innocent Woman in Jail in This Riveting Debut Novel
A young woman’s reaction on social media to a terrorist act seals her fate in “A Burning,” by Megha Majumdar, a novel set in Kolkata that examines the effects of power on the powerless.
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Girl Moves Mountains After Mountain Moves Her
In Lauren Wolk’s “Echo Mountain,” 12-year-old Ellie experiences both the horrors and the healing powers of nature when hard times force her family to return to the land.
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‘Seventh Grade! Now in WonkyVision!’
In Rob Harrell’s “Wink,” middle school social drama and an eyesight-threatening cancer are a lot for one kid to handle. Humor helps.
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A.O. Scott on the Work of Wallace Stegner
Scott discusses his first in a series of essays about American writers, and David Kamp talks about “Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America.”
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Beautiful Places to Die
In these new crime novels, the settings — mountain hamlets, Antarctic ice fields, French sheep farms — may look bucolic. They are not.
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