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She tried her hand at fiction, to no avail. So she wrote a memoir about a circle of strangers instead.
In “Metazoa,” Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the ocean depths to illuminate how the minds of animals work.
“It helped me reshuffle things in my head and how I wanted to speak.”
A young woman’s diagnosis is only the beginning of the mystery in “Lightning Flowers.” As Katherine E. Standefer tried to make sense of her heart condition, her conscience sent her on a trip across the world.
In “The Woman Who Stole Vermeer,” Anthony M. Amore recounts the social history that led to the biggest female-led art heist ever committed.
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s “Strongmen” examines a long list of tyrants in the modern era.
An excerpt from “The Arrest,” by Jonathan Lethem
An excerpt from “Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life,” by Katherine E. Standefer
An excerpt from “Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood,” by Christa Parravani
David Diop’s novel “At Night All Blood Is Black” follows an African soldier fighting for the French as he sinks deeper into psychological horror.
The authors of “The Office of Historical Corrections,” “Igifu,” “Where the Wild Ladies Are” and “A Sense of the Whole” would like to revise the record.
"Metropolis,” by Ben Wilson, examines the history of civilizations and the “connective tissue” that makes them thrive.
In “Cobble Hill,” Cecily von Ziegesar visits a wealthy pocket of a trendy borough.
Wright Thompson’s “Pappyland” goes deep into Kentucky’s bourbon culture through a history of one of its prominent producer families.
In “Loved and Wanted,” Christa Parravani gets real about abortion access in West Virginia.
In Jonas Lüscher’s novel “Kraft,” a debt-ridden professor in a failing marriage tries to make a philosophical case for optimism.
In “The Fabric of Civilization,” the journalist and author Virginia Postrel recounts the evolution of textile production across cultures and centuries.
Thomas E. Ricks’s “First Principles” examines what the founders learned from ancient texts and how that affected the future of the country.
In Lethem’s new novel, “The Arrest,” a visitor upends the pastoral, postapocalyptic lives of a farming community in Maine.
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