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The Shortlist: Marcus Sedgwick’s ‘She Is Not Invisible,’ and More [18 Jul 2014|03:40pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/marcus-sedgwicks-she-is-not-invisible-and-more.html

New books by Marcus Sedgwick, Marie Rutkoski, Anne Blankman, Melvin Burgess and Sally Green.
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Inside the List [18 Jul 2014|03:41pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/books/review/inside-the-list.html

“The Girls of August,” No. 13 on the hardcover fiction list, is the novelist Anne Rivers Siddons’s 13th best seller.
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‘Falling Out of Time,’ by David Grossman [18 Jul 2014|03:42pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/falling-out-of-time-by-david-grossman.html

David Grossman’s book in verse is an intimate study of grief and mourning.
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Patricia Lockwood’s ‘Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals’ [18 Jul 2014|03:42pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/patricia-lockwoods-motherland-fatherland-homelandsexuals.html

Patricia Lockwood’s second poetry collection continues her interrogation of gender, nature and sexuality.
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Essay: Sing to Me, O Muse (But Keep It Brief) [18 Jul 2014|03:44pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/sing-to-me-o-muse-but-keep-it-brief.html

Thoughts on the state of poetry in the age of Twitter.
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Emily Gould’s ‘Friendship’ [18 Jul 2014|03:45pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/emily-goulds-friendship.html

Young women grapple with jobs, men and each other in the blogger Emily Gould’s first novel.
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Gabriel Chevallier’s ‘Fear’ [18 Jul 2014|03:45pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/gabriel-chevalliers-fear.html

Gabriel Chevallier’s autobiographical novel about serving on the front lines of World War I.
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‘The People’s Platform,’ by Astra Taylor [18 Jul 2014|03:57pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/the-peoples-platform-by-astra-taylor.html

The Internet was hailed as a digital democracy, but has resulted in inequities and concentrations of power.
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‘Midnight in Europe,’ by Alan Furst [18 Jul 2014|03:57pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/midnight-in-europe-by-alan-furst.html

The hero of Alan Furst’s new espionage novel risks his life for the loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.
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‘Bicentennial,’ by Dan Chiasson [18 Jul 2014|03:58pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/bicentennial-by-dan-chiasson.html

Dan Chiasson’s new collection evokes the father he never knew.
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Paperback Row [18 Jul 2014|04:18pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/paperback-row.html

Paperback books of particular interest.
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‘The Great Glass Sea,’ by Josh Weil [18 Jul 2014|04:24pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/the-great-glass-sea-by-josh-weil.html

The lives of Russian twins diverge in the post-Soviet years in this first novel.
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‘This Blue,’ by Maureen N. McLane [18 Jul 2014|04:24pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/this-blue-by-maureen-n-mclane.html

From urban pigeons to the Adirondacks, Maureen N. McLane celebrates the intricacies of the natural world.
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Crime: ‘The Forsaken,’ by Ace Atkins, and More [18 Jul 2014|04:24pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/the-forsaken-by-ace-atkins-and-more.html

In Ace Atkins’s “The Forsaken,”
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Editors’ Choice [18 Jul 2014|04:29pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/books/review/editors-choice.html

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The Life of Clare Boothe Luce [18 Jul 2014|05:30pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/book-review-podcast-the-life-of-clare-boothe-luce/

Sylvia Jukes Morris discusses “Price of Fame.”
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ArtsBeat: North Carolina’s New Poet Laureate Bows Out [18 Jul 2014|05:41pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/north-carolinas-new-poet-laureate-bows-out/

After facing criticism from other poets, North Carolina’s poet laureate resigned, less than a week after her appointment.
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ArtsBeat: Poetry Profiles: Four Way Books [18 Jul 2014|06:37pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/poetry-profiles-four-way-books/

Martha Rhodes discusses the publisher’s work.
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Room for Debate: Does Poetry Matter? [18 Jul 2014|10:54pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/18/does-poetry-matter

Sunday's New York Times Book Review featured several new collections of poems. But does poetry matter? Is it relevant?
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