Review: 'Winter Counts,' by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
FICTION: A tale of drugs and violence on the Rosebud Reservation is also a celebration of reviving Lakota traditions.
Review: 'Vesper Flights,' by Helen Macdonald
NONFICTION: An insightful collection of essays about our relationship with the natural world.
Review: 'The Runaways,' by Fatima Bhutto
FICTION: Three teenagers experiment with extremism in a quest for liberation.
Review: 'Summer,' by Ali Smith
FICTION: With "Summer," Ali Smith brings her seasonal quartet to a stunning crescendo.
Review: 'The Presidents vs. the Press,' by Harold Holzer
NONFICTION: An immensely informative account of the perennial struggle between presidents and the fourth estate.
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FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman…
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Review: 'The Golden Cage,' by Camilla Läckberg, translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith
FICTION: A psychological suspense story about vile people doing vile things.
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Review: 'The Dilemma,' by B.A. Paris
The Dilemma By B.A. Paris. (St. Martin's Press, 352 pages, $27.99.)In this evocative drama, the British author of the bestselling "Behind Closed Doors" sets the…
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Review: 'I Hold a Wolf by the Ears,' stories by Laura van den Berg
FICTION: In Laura van den Berg's latest collection, characters grapple with death, grief and memory.
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Quarantine read: Readers suggest books
“Desperadoes” by Ron Hansen Ron Hansen has written 10 estimable novels with wildly diverse, mostly historical subjects ranging from postulant Mariette Baptiste to…
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Review: 'Life of a Klansman,' by Edward Ball
NONFICTION: The author's great-great-grandfather was a Civil War-era white supremacist.
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Review: 'Soul Full of Coal Dust,' by Chris Hamby
NONFICTION: A New York Times reporter exposes how mining companies and their lawyers rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners sickened with black lung.
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Review: 'Six Days in August,' by David King
NONFICTION: A thrilling account of the 1973 hostage- taking that spawned the phrase "Stockholm syndrome."
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Bookmark: Where to begin downsizing when you have thousands of books?
My husband and I might move. (Then again, we might not.) As we spend more and more time in our house, thanks to pandemic…
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Review: 'Northernmost,' by Peter Geye
FICTION: The final volume of Peter Geye's trilogy takes readers to Minnesota's North Shore, and to 19th-century Norway.
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Review: 'A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings,' by Helen Jukes
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees By Helen Jukes. (Pantheon, 256 pages, $26.95.) After years of moving around Great…
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Review: 'With or Without You,' by Caroline Leavitt
FICTION: A stagnating marriage is thrown off course when a night of partying leaves the wife in a coma.
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New York Times bestsellers
FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. (Putnam) In a quiet town on the North Carolina coast in 1969, a young woman…
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Review: 'Why I Don't Write and Other Stories,' by Susan Minot
FICTION: A masterful collection of short stories by Susan Minot comes 30 years after her first.
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Quarantine Read: 'One Long River of Song'
I bought Brian Doyle’s “One Long River of Song” before COVID-19 hit and loved it then. I’m finding it even more soothing and timely…
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Review: 'Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey,' by Kathleen Rooney
FICTION: This graceful novel is based on the true story of World War I's "Lost Battalion."
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Review: 'The Boy in the Field,' by Margot Livesey
FICTION: Three British siblings save the life of a wounded young boy.
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Bookmark: This fraught summer has changed the way you read
Readers share what they're reading to get through the pandemic.
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Review: 'Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus' Wife,' by Ariel Sabar
NONFICTION: "Veritas" tells the true story of a Harvard academic who fell for a biblical fraud. (Or did she?)
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Review: "The Wolf's Trail," by Thomas D. Peacock
Fiction: An aged wolf's ancient narrative creates a startlingly contemporary map.
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