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Roundup: Itineraries Await in the Season’s Best Travel Books
New travel books include “The Timbuktu School for Nomads” and “The Humorless Ladies of Border Control.”
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Sinosphere: Author’s Vision of a Future Beijing Looks to China’s Present
Hao Jingfang, the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award, reflects on the line between reality and fiction and giving voice to “invisible people.”
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Books of The Times: ‘Born a Crime,’ Trevor Noah’s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid
His memoir provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid, and the country’s entry into a postapartheid era.
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Nonfiction: The Rise of Glam Rock
Simon Reynolds’s “Shock and Awe” covers the glory days of glam rock and its pioneers, including T. Rex, David Bowie, Alice Cooper and Roxy Music.
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Front Burner: For the Cheese Lover, the Ultimate Reference Book
“The Oxford Companion to Cheese” covers history, regional styles, local purveyors and more.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Beauty, Femininity and Feminism
The award-winning author, most recently of “Americanah,” is now the face of No7, the makeup brand owned by the pharmacy chain Boots.
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Nonfiction: A New Biography of Joan Rivers
Leslie Bennetts’s “Last Girl Before Freeway” revisits milestones in Joan Rivers’s life, like her childhood, marriage and famous break with Johnny Carson.
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Trilobites: With Shifts in National Mood Come Shifts in Words We Use, Study Suggests
A new analysis of Google Books and The New York Times archives suggests that when things get bad, the words do, too.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘By Women Possessed,’ a Remix of a Flawed Eugene O’Neill
This book by Arthur and Barbara Gelb expresses a professional admiration for Mr. O’Neill but goes into great detail about the unflattering parts of his life.
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Common Sense: In the Chamber of Secrets: J.K. Rowling’s Net Worth
The author’s wealth is a closely guarded secret, but she is most likely a billionaire. She’s also a role model, and no one seems to resent her success.
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Books of Style: Holiday Books About Pearls, Parties and Peace
Need an escape from the pall of politics? Sink into glossy pages that chronicle movie stars on holiday, kitties in windows or just great clothes.
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England to Restore a House With Ties to Jane Austen — or Not
A plan for Wentworth Woodhouse, said to be the inspiration for Pemberley in “Pride and Prejudice,” faces a backlash from a Jane Austen society.
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Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast: Inside The New York Times Book Review: Thomas Friedman on ‘Thank You for Being Late’
Thomas Friedman talks about his latest book, and David France discusses “How to Survive a Plague.”
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Nonfiction: Say It Loud: Two New Books Look Back at Black Power
The roots of Black Lives Matter in the Black Power movement and the Black Panthers.
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Nonfiction: Good at Skipping Ads? No, You’re Not
Mara Einstein’s “Black Ops Advertising” is about the increasing trickery of “stealth advertising” and branded entertainment.
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Fiction: Deprivation: A Childhood in 1960s Hungary
The Hungarian writer Szilard Borbely created fiction about the village past and poetry about the urban present.
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The Shortlist: Space
An astronaut’s memoir, an astronomer’s guide to the solar system and a search for evidence of alien life.
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Author’s Note: Calvin Trillin on the Scariest Word
The author on the word that fills him with dread.
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading by editors at The New York Times Book Review.
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