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Review: 'I Hold a Wolf by the Ears,' stories by Laura van den Berg
FICTION: In Laura van den Berg's latest collection, characters grapple with death, grief and memory.
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Review: 'Life of a Klansman,' by Edward Ball
NONFICTION: The author's great-great-grandfather was a Civil War-era white supremacist.
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Review: 'Soul Full of Coal Dust,' by Chris Hamby
NONFICTION: A New York Times reporter exposes how mining companies and their lawyers rigged a system to deny benefits to coal miners sickened with black lung.
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Review: 'Six Days in August,' by David King
NONFICTION: A thrilling account of the 1973 hostage- taking that spawned the phrase "Stockholm syndrome."
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Review: 'Northernmost,' by Peter Geye
FICTION: The final volume of Peter Geye's trilogy takes readers to Minnesota's North Shore, and to 19th-century Norway.
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Review: 'With or Without You,' by Caroline Leavitt
FICTION: A stagnating marriage is thrown off course when a night of partying leaves the wife in a coma.
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Review: 'Why I Don't Write and Other Stories,' by Susan Minot
FICTION: A masterful collection of short stories by Susan Minot comes 30 years after her first.
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Review: 'Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey,' by Kathleen Rooney
FICTION: This graceful novel is based on the true story of World War I's "Lost Battalion."
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Review: 'The Boy in the Field,' by Margot Livesey
FICTION: Three British siblings save the life of a wounded young boy.
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Bookmark: This fraught summer has changed the way you read
Readers share what they're reading to get through the pandemic.
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Review: 'Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus' Wife,' by Ariel Sabar
NONFICTION: "Veritas" tells the true story of a Harvard academic who fell for a biblical fraud. (Or did she?)
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Review: "The Wolf's Trail," by Thomas D. Peacock
Fiction: An aged wolf's ancient narrative creates a startlingly contemporary map.
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Review: 'Blacktop Wasteland,' by S.A. Cosby
FICTION: A young father agrees to drive a getaway car and puts his whole family in danger.
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