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Interlinked story collections provide narrative continuity, while allowing you to take a pause.
Though the traumatic events of Field’s childhood permeate almost every page, they do not define her.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
A look at “The Ghost Script,” the last of Feiffer’s trio of noir graphic novels, alongside Hartley Lin’s charming “Young Frances.”
Mimi Swartz’s “Ticker” tells the story of the doctors who, against all odds, struggled to make a device to replace one of our most vital organs.
In Lisa Margonelli’s “Underbug,” she focuses on the extraordinary capabilities of the termite and what the insect can teach us about ourselves.
In his new book, the neuroscientist Eric Kandel explores the science of unusual brains, locating many of his answers in genetics.
In Esi Edugyan’s daringly imagined new novel, “Washington Black,” a slave boy and his master’s brother flee a plantation in a flying contraption and forge an unlikely bond.
“The culture I grew up in is a very individualistic one, but for understandable reasons,” says Sarah Smarsh.
Michele Gelfand’s “Rule Makers, Rule Breakers” takes a look at the differences in various human societies and chalks them up to how strictly they follow norms.
Corey Brettschneider’s “The Oath and the Office” offers advice to presidents on their constitutional duties.
Alice Mattison’s “Conscience” traces the damaging effect of a novel based on the real lives of three people involved in radical politics.
Jill Lepore’s “These Truths” shows both the successes and failures that have made the country what it is today.
Dan Kaufman’s “The Fall of Wisconsin” traces how a state that was a liberal bastion came to vote for Donald Trump in 2016.
Eric Klinenberg’s “Palaces for the People” explores the civic value of social infrastructure, those public spaces that allow for human connection.
David Levering Lewis’s “The Improbable Wendell Willkie” describes a political shooting star who left an outsize legacy.
Three new books explore the concepts of liberalism, democracy and nationalism.
Immigrants, artists and inventors imagine liberation in gorgeous new books by Yuyi Morales, Il Sung Na, Juan Felipe Herrera and more.
Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Leadership in Turbulent Times” looks at Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
Marilyn Stasio’s mystery roundup takes readers to World War I Britain and France, then dips into two psychological combat zones in modern America.
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