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Critic’s Notebook: Human Costs of the Forever Wars, Enough to Fill a Bookshelf [26 Dec 2014|12:59am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/books/human-costs-of-the-forever-wars-enough-to-fill-a-bookshelf.html

Books that have grown out of America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq illuminate the nature of those battles, the people who are fighting them and America itself.
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Bookshelf: Books on a Female Fagin in New York, and Jewish Food [26 Dec 2014|07:10am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/nyregion/books-on-a-female-fagin-in-new-york-and-jewish-food.html

“Queen of Thieves” is about Fredericka (Marm) Mandelbaum and her apprentice crooks; “Eating Delancey: A Celebration of Jewish Food” has an introduction by Joan Rivers.
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Inside the List [26 Dec 2014|05:01pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/books/review/inside-the-list.html

Marie Kondo’s “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” admonishes readers to get rid of any belongings that fail to “spark joy.”
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Open Book: Anna’s Triumph [26 Dec 2014|05:03pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/annas-triumph.html

A century and more ago, quibbles about “Anna Karenina” could be found in The Times.
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Editors’ Choice [26 Dec 2014|05:23pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/editors-choice.html

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
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The Shortlist: Laura Kipnis’s ‘Men,’ and More [26 Dec 2014|05:23pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/laura-kipniss-men-and-more.html

New books by Michael Hofmann, Rebecca Solnit, Adam Kirsch and Laura Kipnis.
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Paperback Row [26 Dec 2014|05:29pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/paperback-row.html

Paperback books of particular interest.
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‘How to Be a Victorian,’ by Ruth Goodman [26 Dec 2014|05:50pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/how-to-be-a-victorian-by-ruth-goodman.html

From dawn to dusk, a social historian sees for herself the intricacies of life in Victorian England.
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Will Self’s ‘Shark’ [26 Dec 2014|05:50pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/will-selfs-shark.html

Will Self’s follow-up to “Umbrella” is set in the 1970s but pivots around a nightmarish episode from World War II.
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‘Havel: A Life,’ by Michael Zantovsky [26 Dec 2014|05:50pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/havel-a-life-by-michael-zantovsky.html

A playwright turned statesman, Vaclav Havel came to embody the soul of post-Communist Czechoslovakia.
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‘Me, Myself, and Us,’ by Brian R. Little [26 Dec 2014|05:50pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/me-myself-and-us-by-brian-r-little.html

A look at science on personality, and ways of understanding different traits, including your own.
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‘How We Got to Now,’ by Steven Johnson [26 Dec 2014|05:50pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/how-we-got-to-now-by-steven-johnson.html

Steven Johnson explores the ramifications, good and bad, of six technologies that have changed the world.
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‘A Royal Experiment,’ by Janice Hadlow [26 Dec 2014|05:51pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/a-royal-experiment-by-janice-hadlow.html

Haunted by his feuding ancestors, George III was determined to be a new kind of king.
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‘Hand to Mouth,’ by Linda Tirado [26 Dec 2014|05:51pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/hand-to-mouth-by-linda-tirado.html

The plight of the working poor, from an author with firsthand experience.
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‘Why Homer Matters,’ by Adam Nicolson [26 Dec 2014|05:51pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/why-homer-matters-by-adam-nicolson.html

For the voyager Adam Nicolson, Homer is impossible to understand while sitting behind a desk.
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‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee [26 Dec 2014|05:51pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/the-lives-of-others-by-neel-mukherjee.html

In the 1960s, a middle-class urbanite leaves Calcutta to join the Maoist rebellion.
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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Patrick Modiano’s ‘Suspended Sentences’ [26 Dec 2014|06:52pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/book-review-podcast-patrick-modianos-suspended-sentences/

Alan Riding discusses Mr. Modiano’s novellas, and Judith Newman talks about Ruth Goodman’s “How to Be a Victorian.”
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ArtsBeat: The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About ‘Fields of Blood’ [26 Dec 2014|07:19pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/the-blame-game-karen-armstrong-talks-about-fields-of-blood/

Ms. Armstrong discusses her new book, which examines the relationship between religion and violence throughout history.
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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Patrick Modiano’s ‘Suspended Sentences’ [26 Dec 2014|08:25pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/book-review-podcast-patrick-modianos-suspended-sentences/

Alan Riding discusses Mr. Modiano’s novellas, and Judith Newman talks about Ruth Goodman’s “How to Be a Victorian.”
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ArtsBeat: The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About ‘Fields of Blood’ [26 Dec 2014|08:39pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/the-blame-game-karen-armstrong-talks-about-fields-of-blood/

Ms. Armstrong discusses her new book, which examines the relationship between religion and violence throughout history.
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Anthony’s Doerr’s ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Hits It Big [26 Dec 2014|09:16pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/books/anthonys-doerrs-all-the-light-we-cannot-see-hits-it-big.html

Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See,” a literary novel overlaid with electronics and a sympathetic Nazi, has brought its author unexpected success.
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