New & Noteworthy, From Hidden Treasure to a Relic of Slavery
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Tom Lin Makes His Debut With ‘The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu’
Tom Lin is making his debut with “The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu,” a novel that has drawn comparisons to Cormac McCarthy and “True Grit.”
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How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past
In “How the Word Is Passed,” the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history and its legacy.
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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage
In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other’s throat.
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In César Aira’s World, Life Is a Series of Chance Encounters
“The Divorce,” Aira’s newly translated novel, presents as many riddles as answers.
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All the World Needs Is a Glowing Blue Supermetal From Space
Benjamin Percy’s novel “The Ninth Metal” imagines a cutthroat race for meteor deposits with extraordinary properties.
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Nicola Yoon’s New Book Is a Romance About a Teenager Who Doesn’t Believe in Love
In Nicola Yoon’s book “Instructions for Dancing,” a teenager who doesn’t believe in love rediscovers romance through dance classes.
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Drew Pearson, the Muckraking Journalist With the Bully Pulpit
Donald A. Ritchie’s “The Columnist” describes the 37-year career of a journalist who was, in his time, one of the most powerful men in Washington.
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Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever Tricks
“The Confidence Men,” by Margalit Fox, recounts the elaborate true-life saga of two British officers who escaped from an Ottoman prison camp during World War I by brainwashing and manipulating their captors.
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Kristen Arnett’s Latest Subjects Are the Lesbian Parents of an Autistic-Coded Son
In “With Teeth,” two moms struggle to keep their marriage — and their neuroatypical child — alive.
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