Toni Morrison’s History Lesson- A novel about slavery in which race is almost incidental.
Here They Come Again…- John Updike and Philip Roth tackle living with the consequences of destructive choices this fall.
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The Semi-Gothic Debut Novelist: Hannah Tinti - "One of my first jobs was working at the witch dungeon, basically a basement filled with torture devices used on witches."
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Amitav Ghosh’s Floating Berlitz Tape - More fun than learning a new language: Reading one.
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Who Conserved Herring? - Match the subject to the biography.
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Bolaño’s Best for Last? - The posthumous literary superstar has one final novel yet to appear in English. And it could be his greatest.
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Alcoholic Unanonymous! - This summer, David Carr proved the troubled-times memoir was alive and kicking. Now here come three more books tackling addiction or mental illness.
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Vulture's Recommend-o-Matic: Books - Who are your favorite writers?
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Marilynne Robinson’s Homecoming - She returns to the town of Gilead with Home.
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The Season in Books - New works from Anne Roiphe, Malcolm Gladwell, Annie Proulx, and more.
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That “Laura Bush” Novel… - Maybe you’ve heard a little something about Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife.
