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Books of The Times: ‘Razor Girl,’ a Tale of Kidnappers, Reality TV Stars and Dodgy Seafood
Carl Hiaasen’s latest novel weaves together a demoted detective, a reality-TV star and Florida skulduggery in the writer’s trademark comic style.
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Oliver Stone and Javier Marías, Brooklyn Bound
The Brooklyn Public Library has announced its first official cultural season, which also features Patti Smith and Medea Benjamin.
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Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast: Inside The New York Times Book Review: The Attica Uprising
This week, Heather Ann Thompson talks about “Blood in the Water,” and Seth Mnookin discusses “Patient H.M.”
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Bookshelf: Curating 9/11 Relics One Page at a Time
An official volume produced by the National September 11 Memorial Museum offers an armchair tour of the museum in Lower Manhattan.
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Inside the List
Elizabeth Letts’s “The Perfect Horse,” No.17 on the extended hardcover nonfiction list, is about a breed of horses abducted by the Nazis.
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Nonfiction: Rachel Cusk Reviews Two Books About Assisted Reproduction
Julia Leigh’s “Avalanche” and Belle Boggs’s “The Art of Waiting” are memoirs about the desire for children and the psychological cost of infertility.
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Crime: The Latest and Best in Crime Fiction
New novels by Louise Penny, Alex Marwood, Ken Bruen and Anne Perry.
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Open Book: Reading Toward Recovery
“Out of the Wreck I Rise” is an anthology of literary excerpts about addiction and recovery.
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Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent reviews of Ed Yong’s “I Contain Multitudes,” Tama Janowitz’s “Scream” and more.
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The Shortlist: Dogs
New books about pit bulls, service dogs for children and more.
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Nonfiction: Tom Wolfe Raises His Voice in an Account of Human Speech
According to Tom Wolfe in “The Kingdom of Speech,” the ability to speak is the basis for our greatest achievements.
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Fiction: In a Novel’s Mysterious Background, Talk of a Horrific Crime
Dialogue about a crime forms the background to Iain Reid’s debut novel, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things.”
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Nonfiction: Essays by Han Han, the Chinese Blogger and Media Superstar
“The Problem With Me,” by Han Han, is a book of essays by a widely read Chinese blogger who manages not to provoke the censors.
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Fiction: ‘The Nix’ Is the Love Child of Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace
A son searches for his mother’s secrets in Nathan Hill’s “The Nix,” a sprawling novel with a bag of postmodern tricks.
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Nonfiction: Understanding Recent Deaths at the Hands of the Police
Marc Lamont Hill’s “Nobody” explores the details and history behind the litany of recent police killings.
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Fiction: The Progenitors: Kaui Hart Hemmings Casts an Amused Eye on a Single Mom
A San Francisco single mother finds a support group at a neighborhood playground in Kaui Hart Hemmings’s new comic novel, “How to Party With an Infant.”
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Fiction: A Novel’s Team of Explorers Sets Out to Tame Alaska
Journals trace a husband’s and wife’s separate ventures in the Northwest of the 1880s in Eowyn Ivey’s “To the Bright Edge of the World.”
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Fiction: Heroin Addiction, Anorexia, a Failing Marriage: This Novel’s Narrator Has It All
The narrator of Jade Sharma’s “Problems” aims degrading remarks at other women.
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Editors' Choice: 9 Books for Back-to-School That Times Editors Think You Should Read
New books recommended by the editors of The New York Times Book Review this week.
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