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An excerpt from “Fifty Words for Rain,” by Asha Lemmie
In her first novel in five years, the author of “My Brilliant Friend” revisits old themes.
Asha Lemmie’s sprawling, thought-provoking debut novel, “Fifty Words for Rain” will give you 50 reasons to cancel the rest of your day.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s new novel, “A Girl Is a Body of Water,” follows its young heroine as she grows up without a mother.
From Detroit to Tuscany to an island off the coast of Germany, these books dip into other lives and heartbreaks.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Scott Anderson’s “The Quiet Americans” describes how good intentions in foreign policy could lead to dire results.
“Out of Mesopotamia,” by Salar Abdoh, is as much a meditation on time and memory as it is a book about modern warfare.
Wolf Wondratschek’s “Self-Portrait With Russian Piano” is about an aging concert performer who comes to loathe the spotlight.
In Hari Kunzru’s novel “Red Pill,” a retreat to a peaceful study center in Berlin becomes a quest against the world’s dark forces.
Wolf Wondratschek’s “Self-Portrait With Russian Piano” is about an aging concert performer who comes to loathe the spotlight.
“Cry Havoc,” by Michael Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Va., and “The Violence Inside Us,” by the Connecticut senator Chris Murphy, grapple with racial tension, gun violence and errors of leadership.
“Unforgetting,” by the journalist Roberto Lovato, examines the long and bloody relationship between the United States and El Salvador through the prism of his family.
The stories in “Daddy,” the debut collection by the author of “The Girls,” follow the “trials” of the Hollywood and literary elite.
An excerpt from “We Germans,” by Alexander Starritt
Michael S. Schmidt’s “Donald Trump v. the United States” describes the uncomfortable tenures of two influential White House figures.
“Transcendent Kingdom,” by the author of “Homegoing,” features a Stanford Ph.D. student struggling to comprehend the addiction that killed her brother.
A modern-day Scheherazade uses storytelling to survive the fifth grade.
Mikaila Ulmer’s “Bee Fearless” is that rarest of book breeds: the middle grade memoir.
“Squeeze Me,” Hiaasen’s new novel, is an unabashedly political satire full of his signature high jinks.
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