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Chenjerai Hove, Chronicler of Zimbabwean Struggles, Dies at 59 [24 Jul 2015|02:51am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/arts/chenjerai-hove-chronicler-of-zimbabwean-struggles-dies-at-59.html

The plight of Mr. Hove’s home country comes through in his poems and novels.
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T Magazine: The 10 Books Carrie Brownstein Couldn’t Live Without [24 Jul 2015|02:14pm]

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http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/reading-list-carrie-brownstein/

The actress (and Sleater-Kinney guitarist) shares the books she’d want with her on a desert island: Capote, Woolf, and a little Didion.
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Inside the List: Inside the List [24 Jul 2015|03:53pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/books/review/inside-the-list.html

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me,” which enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 1, is an incantatory essay about being black in America.
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The Shortlist: Summer Fiction [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/summer-fiction.html

New books by Candace Bushnell, Caroline Zancan, Jules Moulin, and Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
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Open Book: An Unfinished Library [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/an-unfinished-library.html

“The Greatest Books You’ll Never Read” is a new survey of books that are “unfinished, unbegun or lost, and today exist as only suggestive fragments or not at all.”
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‘A Cure for Suicide,’ by Jesse Ball [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/a-cure-for-suicide-by-jesse-ball.html

After a life-threatening illness, a man known as the claimant is reintroduced to human behavior.
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Editors’ Choice [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/editors-choice.html

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
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Paperback Row [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/paperback-row.html

Paperback books of particular interest.
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Christian Kracht’s ‘Imperium’ [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/christian-krachts-imperium.html

In this Swiss novel, a German vegetarian in the early 1900s tries to found a colony in the South Seas.
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‘The Hand That Feeds You,’ by A.J. Rich [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/the-hand-that-feeds-you-by-aj-rich.html

A heroine learns her dead fiancé was an impostor.
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‘The End of Plenty,’ by Joel K. Bourne Jr. [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/the-end-of-plenty-by-joel-k-bourne-jr.html

A journalist looks at the challenges involved in keeping the world from going hungry.
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‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me,’ by David Gates [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/a-hand-reached-down-to-guide-me-by-david-gates.html

The characters in David Gates’s stories engage in festivals of bad decisions.
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‘The Loved Ones,’ by Mary-Beth Hughes [24 Jul 2015|04:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/the-loved-ones-by-mary-beth-hughes.html

After an inescapable loss, a cosmetics executive moves his family to London.
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ArtsBeat: Rediscovered Pablo Neruda Poems to Be Published [24 Jul 2015|06:07pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/rediscovered-pablo-neruda-poems-to-be-published/

Copper Canyon Press will publish a collection of 20 poems that were found by archivists last year.
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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Dr. Seuss’ ‘What Pet Should I Get?’ [24 Jul 2015|06:48pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/24/book-review-podcast-dr-seuss-what-pet-should-i-get/

Maria Russo and Alexandra Alter discuss Dr. Seuss, and Jill Ciment talks about “The Hand That Feeds You.”
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Bookshelf: Bookshelf: Gilded-Age Version of Monopoly in New York [24 Jul 2015|09:53pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/nyregion/bookshelf-gilded-age-version-of-monopoly-in-new-york.html

A review of a board game about Manhattan real estate in the early 20th century; an index of exotic foods; the story of the craft spirits boom in New York State; and anecdotes from Elaine’s, the former Upper East Side eatery.
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