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Review: 'A House in the Mountains,' by Caroline Moorehead
NONFICTION: The last book in the Resistance quartet highlights the work of intrepid women partisans in Italy.
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REVIEW: 'Race Against Time,' by Jerry Mitchell
NONFICTION: An investigative journalist digs into unsolved murders in the 1960s South.
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Marlon James trash-talks dead writers in new podcast
The Minnesota writer and his editor discuss their favorite--and least-favorite--dead authors.
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Review: 'How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish,' edited by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
NONFICTION: How Yiddish words have crept into the American vernacular.
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Review: 'The Sweet Indifference of the World,' by Peter Stamm
FICTION: An entrancing tale about a writer haunted by his past self.
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Review: 'A Long Petal of the Sea,' by Isabel Allende
FICTION: A family's flight from the bloody Spanish Civil War to a new life in Chile forms the arc of this powerful novel.
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Review: 'Homie,' by Danez Smith
POETRY: In this third collection, Danez Smith's poems burst with rage and love.
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NBCC Finalists announced, including Ronan Farrow and Colson Whitehead
The finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards were announced in New York.
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Review: 'Imperfect Union,' by Steve Inskeep
NONFICTION: A vibrant portrait of John and Jessie Frémont mirrors the ferment of 19th-century political intrigue.
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Review: 'How Quickly She Disappears,' Raymond Fleischmann
FICTION: Alaska-set thriller hinges on the relationship between a lonely woman and a killer.
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Review: 'Pravda Ha Ha,' by Rory MacLean
NONFICTION: The author of "Stalin's Nose" returns to Russia to try to understand what has happened to the world since the fall of Communism.
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