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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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Review: 'True Crime Addict,' by James Renner
NONFICTION: A credentialed true-crime writer can't let go. Readers won't want him to.
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Review: 'Kingdoms in the Air,' by Bob Shacochis
NONFICTION: Travel dispatches from far-flung corners of the world, by a winner of the National Book Award for fiction.
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Review: 'The House by the Lake,' by Thomas Harding
NONFICTION: An intimate and engrossing history of a German house and its owners throughout the turbulence of the 20th century.
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Author Gay Talese disowns his new book: 'Its credibility is down the toilet'
Author Gay Talese has denounced his upcoming book, "The Voyeur's Motel," due to what he considers a credibility crisis.
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Beloved Minneapolis comic book store Big Brain is closing
After years in the local comic book scene, Michael Drivas is calling it quits his acclaimed Big Brain.
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