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April in Paris
Who doesn’t want to be in Paris in April? Three books in the selection this week are set there. Then we have a powerful novel from a Booker-shortlisted...
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Out There
A much-anticipated memoir from Salman Rushdie leads the selection this week. Two others are story collections that bust their genres
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Spring Is in the Air
Two story collections, witty psychological suspense, and corruption on Park Avenue make up the fiction offerings this week
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Shifting Sands
Five very special novels by women bring Women’s History Month to a close: an unlikely friendship in the Orkney Islands; a writer reflecting...
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From One Extreme to Another
This week we have novels brimming with hilarity and heartbreak, farce and catastrophe. Each extreme is hard to pull off, but these writers have...
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Fountain of Youth
Several selections this week feature young protagonists as we explore past and present: in a Polish Gothic novel; with a closeted gay teen in...
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The Heart’s Desire
This week we cover stories about family, love, and characters who are haunted by their pasts and potential futures. Visit a Caribbean island in...
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Arts & Letters
In this week’s selection we recommend a stunning debut from a veritable polymath; two books about ’80s artists in Soho—a definitive...
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Crimes and Passion
Though we get an extra day this month (thanks to the leap year), folklore suggests February 29th is bad luck. The characters in these four novels...
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Life Stories
This week we dig deep into lives real and imagined, past and present: three memoirs, one in verse; a posthumous essay collection; and of course...