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Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column shows what happens when a daughter turns in her murderer mother, a town confronts a killing and cold cases unfreeze.
“Gather the Daughters,” a debut novel by Jennie Melamed, imagines a world of repression and submission.
Tom Hanks, the actor, producer, director and author of a new story collection, “Uncommon Type,” has no desire to read novels of murder and conspiracy.
In “Cuz,” Danielle Allen remembers a cousin who went to prison as a teenager and spent almost his entire adult life behind bars.
T.J. Stiles discusses a new, completely annotated edition of Grant’s memoirs, edited by John F. Marszalek, with David S. Nolen and Louie Gallo.
A female Mr. Ripley, a time-traveling artist, an abandoned teenager in a drug-addled town and an albino girl with mystical powers that just might save the world.
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Following reports on the allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Harvey Weinstein, the Weinstein Company’s publishing imprint is shut down
Ron Chernow’s “Grant” gives us a Ulysses S. Grant for our times.
In his debut collection, “Fresh Complaint,” Eugenides explores variations on the theme of failure: marital, creative and financial.
These three books deal with the issue of sexual misconduct in the office.
In “The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World,” Michael Ignatieff grapples with whether people are only capable of living side by side.
Mary S. Lovell’s “The Riviera Set” eavesdrops on the glamorous entertainments staged by the various owners of a chateau in the south of France.
Judith Mackrell’s “The Unfinished Palazzo” traces the lives of its 20th-century owners: Marchesa Luisa Casati, Lady Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim.
Denise Kiernan unlocks the Gilded Age history of George Vanderbilt’s giant house and the aristocratic royalty that inhabited it.
France is the “guest of honor” at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany. Here are recent novels by some of the French writers who will be there.
Two books look at why getting a good night’s rest is essential.
In Robert Olmstead’s seventh novel, “Savage Country,” a widow and her brother-in-law hunt buffalo to pay family debts in the 1870s.
Our columnist recommends books about work, gender equality, climate change and other timely subjects for a book club that thrives on lively discussion.
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