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Prepare to be dazzled by these new works of fiction — two Norwegian, one Danish.
In their new books, Allison Varnes, Pablo Cartaya and Antony John create memorable characters who try to stand out but also, somehow, fit in.
“Fly Girls,” by Keith O’Brien, points out that Amelia Earhart wasn’t the only female pilot who defied all odds to take to the skies in the 1920s.
A cheap reproduction of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” binds “Tin Man,” Sarah Winman’s tale of love, loss and the power of art to inspire and sustain.
In “Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense,” Jenny Uglow suggests that her subject’s life was sadder than his paintings and limericks would imply.
In Ismail Kadare’s novel “The Traitor’s Niche,” the quest for a rebel pasha’s head becomes a grimly comic comment on 20th-century authoritarianism.
In “I Will Be Complete,” Glen David Gold holds his troubled mother — and his emotions — at arm’s length through a wealth of minutiae.
The Indian-Americans in Neel Patel’s “If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi” are less troubled by cultural clashes than they are by the unraveling of emotions.
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Just in time for the new semester, the graphic novelist Victoria Jamieson draws a reflection on the trials of junior high.
The crime novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, whose new book is “The Man Who Came Uptown,” would want Gladys Knight to write his life story: “Music heads will get that one.”
In “Small Animals,” Kim Brooks examines why letting your kids walk alone to school or play in the park unsupervised means risking arrest — especially if you’re a mother.
In Sam Anderson’s new history of “the great minor city of America,” he tells a story that extends from the famous 1889 land rush to the saga of the Thunder.
The upstate house offers an escape from a New York City that no longer exists — and a place where he can write three times as fast.
In “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret,” Craig Brown dishes out gossipy tales of Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
“The Husband Hunters” is Anne de Courcy’s glittering account of the Gilded Age wave of young women whose fortunes saved the British aristocracy.
The novelist’s only children’s book is coming back into print, and it couldn’t be more timely.
In “Winners Take All,” Anand Giridharadas explores a global elite that bemoans the state of the world while refusing to seek real, structural change.
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