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‘Dopesick’ Traces the Opioid Crisis, From Beginning to Blow Up
Beth Macy’s new book provides an on-the-ground look at how addiction to OxyContin and other painkillers became a national state of emergency.
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A Debut Novel Mixes Lust With the Directionlessness of Youth
In Andrew Martin’s “Early Work,” the already shiftless life of a struggling writer is derailed by romantic infatuation.
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Beauty, Bad Temper and Scandal in a Riveting Look at Princess Margaret
In “Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret,” Craig Brown ignores all the starchy obligations of biography and adopts a form of his own to ensnare the reader.
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When First Love Is as Lethal as Religious Extremism
In R.O. Kwon’s debut novel, “The Incendiaries,” the central characters fall hard, both for each other and into the trap of a fundamentalist cult.
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Photo CreditFrom left: Hulton Archive via, Getty Images; Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images Jane Austen’s First Buyer? Probably a Prince She Hated
A recently discovered bill of sale from 1811 suggests the famously tart novelist may have attracted interest in high places from the start.
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Photo CreditTim Enthoven A History of Everything, Served in a Cold Glass of Milk
Mark Kurlansky’s latest history, “Milk!,” ranges wide, from breast-feeding to crème vichyssoise glacée.
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Photo Credit How Sweet It Is. And How Malignant.
James Walvin’s “Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity” describes the problems with an all-too-familiar commodity.
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Photo CreditVictor Schrager True Crime Starring the Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Margalit Fox talks about “Conan Doyle for the Defense,” and Tina Jordan discusses this season’s thrillers.
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Photo Credit ‘Convenience Store Woman’ Casts a Fluorescent Spell
In Sayaka Murata’s small, elegant and deadpan novel, a woman keeps herself at a remove from society while working for many years in a dead-end job at a Smile Mart.
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Photo Credit In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert
In this surprising and mesmerizing book, Allie Rowbottom, a descendant of the Jell-O fortune, weaves together memoir and the story of the classic American brand.
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Photo Credit Can a List of Someone’s Stuff Double as Literature?
Thomas Clerc’s “Interior” is a tour of all the objects in the experimental writer’s 50-square-meter Paris apartment.
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Photo Credit A Parody of Smut — and of Voltaire — Turns 60
“Candy,” the satirical sex novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg now available in a new anniversary edition, wages guerrilla war on prudery.
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Photo Credit How Conservatives Bet Big on Wisconsin and Won
In “The Fall of Wisconsin,” Dan Kaufman shows how the Tea Party’s philosophy has triumphed in a state long known for its progressive traditions.
