The Sweat, Stench and Staggering Logistics of the American Supermarket
“The Secret Life of Groceries,” by Benjamin Lorr, lifts the veil on the human labor, industrial agriculture and transportation challenges that go into stocking upscale food stores.
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Novels From Around the World Examine Kinship and Conflict
Books in translation from Brazil, France, Mozambique and Italy follow friends in crisis and lovers divided.
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Sigrid Nunez’s New Book Asks a Timely Question, Right in the Title
“What Are You Going Through” considers life-and-death issues with a master’s light touch.
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How to Read Your Way Back to Serenity
“Breaking Bread With the Dead,” by Alan Jacobs, argues that works of the past help increase our “personal density,” even when we disagree with them.
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Are We More Divided Now Than Ever Before?
James A. Morone’s “Republic of Wrath” looks at political divisions throughout American history.
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The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round
“Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing,” by Jacob Goldstein, is a conversational account of currency — an abstraction propped up by group faith.
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When the Holocaust Becomes an Obsession
In Yishai Sarid’s novel “The Memory Monster,” a tour guide to the Nazi death camps begins to unravel.
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Groomed to Be President
Fredrik Logevall’s “JFK” brings the young Jack Kennedy to life with telling detail and knowing insights.
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Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending
When her husband dies suddenly, a woman reckons with the life they shared.
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The Full Measure of America’s Farming and Food Crisis
In “Perilous Bounty,” Tom Philpott looks at the toll that industrial farming practices have taken on the health of the land.
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