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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Animals’ Asks When, and If, the Party Has to End [02 Oct 2015|01:25am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/books/review-animals-asks-when-and-if-the-party-has-to-end.html

Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel, about friends whose life of drinking and doing drugs is threatened by maturity’s on-set, is much more than it initially seems.
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My Bookshelf, Myself: My 10 Favorite Books: Julie Klausner [02 Oct 2015|01:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/t-magazine/my-10-favorite-books-julie-klausner.html

The writer shares the titles she’d most want with her on a desert island.
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‘The Double Life of Liliane,’ by Lily Tuck [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/the-double-life-of-liliane-by-lily-tuck.html

Divided between two continents, a girl finds her way.
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‘Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism,’ by John Norris [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/mary-mcgrory-the-first-queen-of-journalism-by-john-norris.html

A biography of a Washington columnist who guided much of the national conversation for five decades with disarming grace and wit.
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Crime: A Stab of Fate [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/a-stab-of-fate.html

Karin Slaughter’s “Pretty Girls,” a murder brings two estranged sisters back together.
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‘The Theater of War,’ by Bryan Doerries [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/the-theater-of-war-by-bryan-doerries.html

How a director and classicist uses Greek drama to heal the modern trauma of war and incarceration.
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Paul Theroux’s ‘Deep South’ [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/paul-therouxs-deep-south.html

A world traveler drives through some of his own country’s poorest rural districts.
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The Shortlist: Story Collections [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/story-collections.html

New books by Percival Everett, Andrew Malan Milward, Lincoln Michel, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and David Nicholson.
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Salman Rushdie’s ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights’ [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/salman-rushdies-two-years-eight-months-and-twenty-eight-nights.html

In Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, a storm opens a wormhole and the battle between good and evil.
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Open Book: About a Girl [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/colm-toibin-talks-about-brooklyn-film-adaptation.html

Colm Toibin talks about the film adaptation of his novel “Brooklyn.”
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‘Gold Fame Citrus,’ by Claire Vaye Watkins [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/gold-fame-citrus-by-claire-vaye-watkins.html

A novel of post-apocalypse California has a desert on steroids, and Los Angeles celebrity culture squarely in its sights.
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Kenzaburo Oe’s ‘Death by Water’ [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/kenzaburo-oes-death-by-water.html

Kenzaburo Oe’s doppelgänger protagonist seeks to solve a mystery while facing his obsolescence.
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Inside the List [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/books/review/inside-the-list.html

Jenny Lawson writes about mental illness in her memoir “Furiously Happy,” No. 3 in hardcover nonfiction: “‘Just cheer up’ is almost universally looked at as the most unhelpful depression cure ever.”
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‘The Gay Revolution,’ by Lillian Faderman [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/the-gay-revolution-by-lillian-faderman.html

A historian traces the progress of gay rights from midcentury suppression to the triumph of marriage equality.
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Padgett Powell’s ‘Cries for Help, Various’ [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/padgett-powells-cries-for-help-various.html

Human longing is Padgett Powell’s best subject.
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‘Today Is Not Your Day,’ by Marian Thurm [02 Oct 2015|04:10pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/today-is-not-your-day-by-marian-thurm.html

Wringing entertainment from odd situations.
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Bookshelf: Books on New York City Celebrate Its Sports and Its Jewish Delis [02 Oct 2015|05:16pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/nyregion/books-on-new-york-city-celebrate-its-sports-and-its-jewish-delis.html

A look at John V. Lindsay, the “fun” mayor of New York, and a paean to the purveyors of pastrami.
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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Niall Ferguson’s ‘Kissinger’ [02 Oct 2015|07:58pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/book-review-podcast-niall-fergusons-kissinger/

Mr. Ferguson discusses his new biography of Henry Kissinger, and Sloane Crosley talks about her first novel, “The Clasp.”
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Scene City: Literati Toast Knopf’s 100th Anniversary [02 Oct 2015|09:25pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/fashion/literati-toast-knopfs-100th-anniversary.html

The celebration at the New York Public Library celebrated authors like Toni Morrison and Robert Caro.
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Niall Ferguson’s ‘Kissinger. Volume I. 1923-1968: The Ideal­ist’ [02 Oct 2015|09:40pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/books/review/niall-fergusons-kissinger-volume-i.html

An official biography’s first volume taps a huge archive dating to the statesman’s youth and challenges the so-called revisionists.
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