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Publisher to Put Asterisk on ‘Primates of Park Avenue’ [08 Jun 2015|12:06am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/business/media/publisher-to-put-asterisk-on-primates-of-park-avenue.html

After a report of errors in the book about New York’s elite, Simon & Schuster said it would note that license was taken for dramatic effect.
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‘The Meursault Investigation,’ by Kamel Daoud [08 Jun 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/the-meursault-investigation-by-kamel-daoud.html

Daoud’s inventive novel looks at Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” with new eyes.
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‘The Sunken Cathedral,’ by Kate Walbert [08 Jun 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/the-sunken-cathedral-by-kate-walbert.html

Threats, real and imagined, loom in the lives of restive New Yorkers.
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‘The Architect’s Apprentice,’ by Elif Shafak [08 Jun 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/the-architects-apprentice-by-elif-shafak.html

An elephant trainer becomes an apprentice to the Ottoman Empire’s chief architect.
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‘The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland’ [08 Jun 2015|02:45pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/the-story-of-alice-lewis-carroll-and-the-secret-history-of-wonderland.html

A look at three very different lives: Lewis Carroll’s, Alice Liddell’s and that of the literary creation they both had a part in.
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Judd Apatow: By the Book [08 Jun 2015|04:08pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/books/review/judd-apatow-by-the-book.html

The screenwriter, director and author of “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy,” owns a lot of books. “I have actually convinced myself that buying books is the same as reading.”
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‘The Anchoress,’ by Robyn Cadwallader [08 Jun 2015|06:42pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/books/review/the-anchoress-by-robyn-cadwallader.html

A teenager in medieval England becomes a religious hermit.
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Books of The Times: Review: In ‘Muse,’ the Publisher Jonathan Galassi Writes What He Knows [08 Jun 2015|07:20pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/books/review-in-muse-the-publisher-jonathan-galassi-writes-what-he-knows.html

Mr. Galassi, president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, draws on his longtime experience to give readers a portrait of the literary world.
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Alice Goffman’s Heralded Book on Crime Is Disputed [08 Jun 2015|08:24pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/books/alice-goffmans-heralded-book-on-crime-disputed.html

Since her book “On the Run” was published, the author has achieved a measure of fame that is rare​ for a young sociologist, but ​she now faces criticism over her facts and methods.
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Books of Style: Henrietta Bingham’s Jazz Age Life [08 Jun 2015|09:17pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/style/henrietta-binghams-jazz-age-life.html

Henrietta Worth Bingham’s life shamed her family. Decades later, a great-niece decided to find out why.
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Books of Style: Henrietta Bingham’s Jazz Age Life [08 Jun 2015|09:18pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/style/henrietta-binghams-jazz-age-life.html

Henrietta Worth Bingham’s life shamed her family. Decades later, a great-niece decided to find out why.
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