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An excerpt from ‘She Was Like That,’ by Kate Walbert
Biker gangs, demented merry-go-rounds, haunted bookmobiles, dead lake monsters: You’ll find them all in “Full Throttle.”
In her second collection, “Make It Scream, Make It Burn,” the author of “The Empathy Exams” wages a journalistic battle between sentiment and detachment.
New poetry collections from Hanif Abdurraqib, Maya Phillips, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Daniel Poppick and Alexandra Teague.
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
“Plagued by Fire,” Paul Hendrickson’s biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, attempts to show the fundamental decency of a man history has portrayed as both a genius and a monster.
New novels from abroad include a Northern Irish homage to the “Iliad,” a Norwegian family drama and an Italian dystopian tale.
Set in the months surrounding the 2016 election, Carol Anshaw’s novel “Right After the Weather” features a witty woman puzzled by her own heroics.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s thriller explores the ripple effect of a lie told by a lonely teenager.
In her memoir “Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl,” Jeannie Vanasco seeks answers to her trauma.
A novel recreates the murder case that helped overturn that country’s death penalty.
Akwaeke Emezi’s “Pet” tells the story of a trans girl who knows that evil is still lurking, even when her utopian society sees only angels.
“Syria’s Secret Library,” by Mike Thomson, tells the story of a hidden book collection in a bombed-out building that functioned as “an oasis of normality” in the midst of war.
“Breathe,” by the scholar Imani Perry, takes the form of a letter, by turns indignant, despairing and hopeful, to her young sons.
Power talks about her new memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” and Craig Johnson discusses his Longmire mysteries.
“Antoni in the Kitchen” is a globally inspired memoir-in-recipes.
In “To Build a Better World,” Condoleezza Rice and Philip Zelikow warn that the old consensus on foreign policy has evaporated.
Was his stepfather involved in Jimmy Hoffa’s murder? In a new book — part memoir, part forensic procedural — Jack Goldsmith tries to find out.
Alberto Manguel sketches 10 classic figures from fiction, including Dracula, Captain Nemo and Long John Silver.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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