Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Great American Novelist, Turns to the Story
In his debut collection, “Fresh Complaint,” Eugenides explores variations on the theme of failure: marital, creative and financial.
Newsbook: Amid Weinstein Accusations, 3 Books on Workplace Sexual Harassment
These three books deal with the issue of sexual misconduct in the office.
Electrifying 'Power' Flips The Gender Script To Unsettling Effect
For most of recorded history, men have held power over women. Naomi Alderman's new novel imagines a world where women suddenly have power — actual electrical power — to oppress, hurt and kill men.
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'The Apparitionists' Raises The Specters That Haunted America
Peter Manseau skillfully weaves together spirituality, technology and the legacy of the Civil War to tell the story of a "spirit photographer" on trial for claiming he could take pictures of ghosts.
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Nonfiction: Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart?
In “The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World,” Michael Ignatieff grapples with whether people are only capable of living side by side.
Nonfiction: How a Villa on the Riviera Became the Year-Round Playground of the Superrich
Mary S. Lovell’s “The Riviera Set” eavesdrops on the glamorous entertainments staged by the various owners of a chateau in the south of France.
Nonfiction: Three Wealthy Women and Their Venetian Mansion
Judith Mackrell’s “The Unfinished Palazzo” traces the lives of its 20th-century owners: Marchesa Luisa Casati, Lady Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim.
Nonfiction: Biltmore House, America’s Original McMansion
Denise Kiernan unlocks the Gilded Age history of George Vanderbilt’s giant house and the aristocratic royalty that inhabited it.
Further Reading: 10 French Novels to Read Now
France is the “guest of honor” at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany. Here are recent novels by some of the French writers who will be there.
There's Good Stuff In 'Hirschfeld,' Despite Style Stumbles
Like a hidden NINA, there are great moments in Ellen Stern's hefty new biography of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld — but they're obscured by her off-puttingly glib tone and perpetual present tense.
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'Rules Of Magic' Blends The Charm Of The Familiar With New Enchantments
Alice Hoffman returns to the world of her best-selling Practical Magic in this new book, a prequel dedicated to the early lives and loves of the first volume's elderly aunts Francis and Jet.
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Nonfiction: Exploring the Necessity and Virtue of Sleep
Two books look at why getting a good night’s rest is essential.
Fiction: No Country for Young Widows
In Robert Olmstead’s seventh novel, “Savage Country,” a widow and her brother-in-law hunt buffalo to pay family debts in the 1870s.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: I’m Seeking Newsy Nonfiction That Sparks Debate
Our columnist recommends books about work, gender equality, climate change and other timely subjects for a book club that thrives on lively discussion.
Collection Puts A Playful, Pulpy Twist On Preposterous Stories About Obama
Fifteen writers riff on various wild conspiracy theories generated about President Obama over the years. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the sly short stories in The Obama Inheritance pack a punch.
Fiction: How Kurt Vonnegut Found His Voice and His Themes
“Complete Stories” shows Vonnegut using short fiction to test the ideas he would put to better use in his famous novels.
Nonfiction: The 20 Years That Made New York City
“Greater Gotham,” Mike Wallace’s sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Gotham,” focuses on the two decades between 1898 and 1919.
'Her Body And Other Parties:' Be Your Own Madwoman
Carmen Maria Machado's new collection takes young female online culture — LiveJournal and Tumblr, ghost stories and urban legends — and reinforce the uncanny power and reach of those stories.
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'Taste Of Empire' Shows Us The World In Our Kitchen Cupboards
Lizzie Collingham's new book takes 20 exemplary British meals, from plain stewed beef to an elaborate Christmas pudding, and uses them to illustrate the way food and empire are inextricably linked.
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You're Going To Hate 'TheMystery.doc,' And That's OK
Matthew McIntosh's fractured and fracturing 1,600-page tale of a writer with amnesia and a missing manuscript isn't fun, and it probably isn't supposed to be. But it is magnificently weird.
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