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A selection of books published this week.
It depends on whom you ask.
In Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel’s real-life whodunit “Dead in the Water,” Big Oil, Big Insurance and global corruption clash on a giant scale.
Two new books trace the evolution of the industry from the perspective of women who worked in it.
In her new novel, “Vigil Harbor,” Julia Glass imagines a not-so-distant future when a New England town is wracked by crises.
Vauhini Vara’s “The Immortal King Rao” is about a lot of things, from a father-daughter bond to the end of human civilization.
Set mostly in western Ireland, Colin Barrett’s second collection is a painterly portrait of characters on the edge.
Egan’s new novel is a follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Visit From the Goon Squad.”
John Gleeson’s “The Gotti Wars” is a memoir about what it took to jail America’s star gangster.
Antonia Fraser’s “The Case of the Married Woman” tells the story of Caroline Norton, who scandalized 19th-century London society — and upended its laws.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
“Troublemaker,” about a 12-year-old Korean American boy in post-Rodney King Los Angeles, rebuts the model minority myth.
In “Hilde on the Record: Memoir of a Kid Crime Reporter,” Hilde Lysiak cracks her own case.
A selection of books published this week.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“Trust,” by Hernan Diaz, examines the human costs of wealth in a novel that keeps revising itself.
“Everything she wrote then matters now,” says the novelist, whose latest book is “The Good Left Undone.” “The great writers can see into the future.”
“Trust,” by Hernan Diaz, examines the human costs of wealth in a novel that keeps revising itself.
In “True Biz,” the author, who is deaf, conjures the characters she wishes she’d known as she lost her hearing.
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