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Review: 'The Tyrannosaur Chronicles,' by David Hone
NONFICTION: Dinosaur expert David Hones takes a thoughtful and engaging look at T. rex – teeth, feathers (yes, feathers) and all.
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Review: 'The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between,' by Hisham Matar
NONFICTION: Hisham Matar relates a harrowing tale of life under totalitarian rule while exploring the power of art.
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Review: 'We Are Not Such Things,' by Justine van der Leun
NONFICTION: A new look at a young woman's killing by a mob leads to deeper truths about post-apartheid life.
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Claudia Rankine, Kao Kalia Yang and others added to NEA Big Read list
Thirteen new titles add to the "makeover" of the list.
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REVIEW: 'Pond,' by Claire-Louise Bennett
FICTION: An elegant and intoxicating debut novel explores a woman's quiet life and busy mind.
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Review: 'Villa Triste,' by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by John Cullen
FICTION: A French Nobel laureate's beguiling 1975 novel about an elusive young man's memory of love and friendship.
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Review: 'Goodnight, Beautiful Women,' by Anna Noyes
REVIEW: A debut collection set in coastal Maine, narrated largely by locals struggling to make ends meet.
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Review: 'So Much for That Winter,' by Dorthe Nors, translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra
FICTION: Dorthe Nors' spare, experimental novellas illuminate life's tedium.
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Review: 'The Voyeur's Motel,' by Gay Talese
NONFICTION: Gay Talese's reportage on a Colorado man's years spying on guests makes the reader uncomfortably complicit.
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Review: 'Trials of the Earth,' by Mary Mann Hamilton
NONFICTION: One of the first white settlers in the Mississippi Delta tells her story of hardship, sorrow and love.
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Review: 'Witness to the Revolution,' by Clara Bingham
NONFICTION: Largely through oral histories, Clara Bingham takes a deep look at the pivotal year of 1969.
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Review: 'Hystopia,' by David Means
FICTION: In this insightful alternate history of late 1960s America, two lovestruck federal agents search for a killer.
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Review: 'Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube,' by Blair Braverman
NONFICTION: A young adventurer finds cold and deprivation easier to bear than misogyny.
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Review: 'Pretentiousness: Why It Matters,' by Dan Fox
NONFICTION: Essayist Dan Fox makes the case that "pretentious" is actually an admirable term.
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Review: 'The Morning They Came for Us,' by Janine di Giovanni
NONFICTION: A veteran war correspondent's angry close-up of what civil war has done to Syria's beauty and people.
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