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Bookshelf: Books on Rejected New Yorker Covers, and the Guilt of Aaron Burr
Three new books explore The New Yorker’s cover designs, the cultural influence of Samuel Rothafel and the struggles Aaron Burr faced after he shot Alexander Hamilton.
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Talk: Richard Ford Is a Man Who Actually Listens
The author of “Canada” discusses losing a parent, choosing not to have children and getting strangers to open up to him.
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Herta Müller’s Literature, Born of Isolation
Herta Müller, the Nobel Prize-winning author, grew up German in Romania, always under surveillance. Her newest work is a collaboration with a writer whose background was similar, but whose life was shockingly different.
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ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: The Relationship of an Artist and an Original Beatle
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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Starkly Different Views of American Liberals
On this week's podcast, discussions of Jonah Goldberg's "The Tyranny of Clichés" and Eric Alterman's "The Cause."
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Books Of the Times: ‘David Hockney: A Rake’s Progress’ by Christopher Simon Sykes
A new biography of David Hockney traces his early life and work in England and Los Angeles up to 1975, including fascinating accounts of how some well-known paintings evolved.
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‘Oblivion,’ a Memoir by Héctor Abad
Héctor Abad creates a sociopolitical portrait of Colombia through the telling of his family’s story.
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Inside the List
Toni Morrison, whose novel “Home” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 9 this week, remembers being confronted by a stark image of race relations as a freshman at Howard University.
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‘Farther Away,’ Essays by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen’s essays express his love of birds and of writers, especially his friend David Foster Wallace.
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Essay: Books With 140 Characters
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The Protégé’s Pen: Portrayal or Betrayal
A biography of the former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee has the author’s mentor, Bob Woodward, upset — and much of Washington is talking.
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Poems and Stories by Lucia Perillo
Lucia Perillo’s two collections, poems and stories, draw upon her experiences in a world that often hurts her.
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‘Chasing Venus,’ by Andrea Wulf
With a Venusian transit imminent, 18th-century astronomers risked their lives for a chance to measure the solar system.
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‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ by Ben Fountain
A firefight with Iraqi insurgents is caught on tape and turns a band of soldiers into media heroes in Ben Fountain’s satire.
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‘Wichita,’ a Novel by Thad Ziolkowski
Fleeing the pressures of academia, Thad Ziolkowski’s Midwestern hero is sucked into his family’s schemes and strife.
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‘Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms,’ by Richard Fortey
The paleontologist Richard Fortey searches out species that have endured hundreds of millions of years of planetary turmoil.
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‘The Tyranny of Clichés,’ by Jonah Goldberg
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