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Review: 'Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,' by Rivka Galchen
FICTION: Superstition and reason collide in 17th-century Germany.
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Review: 'Our Woman in Moscow,' by Beatriz Williams
FICTION: A thrilling novel of spying, duplicity and bad decisions during the heart of the Cold War.
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Review: 'Kin,' by Shawna Kay Rodenberg
NONFICTION: A harrowing memoir of life in a religious community near Grand Marais.
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REVIEW: 'The Plot,' by Jean Hanff Korelitz
FICTION: Paranoia lurks in this suspenseful mystery that asks "who wrote it?"
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Review: 'The Other Black Girl,' by Zakiya Dalila Harris
FICTION: An astute examination of race, and all its manifestations, set in the world of publishing.
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Review: 'Heaven,' by Mieko Kawakami
FICTION: This intensely disquieting look at bullying is potent despite some imperfections.
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REVIEW: 'Friends and Dark Shapes,' by Kavita Bedford
FICTION: An assured debut novel about a woman trying to make her way in Sydney after the death of her father.
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Review: 'Mercury Rising,' by Jeff Shesol
NONFICTION: A splendid account of John Glenn's orbits around the Earth in 1962.
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Review: 'Should We Stay or Should We Go?' by Lionel Shriver
FICTION: A couple late in life try to make an exit plan — repeatedly.
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Review: 'Early Morning Riser,' by Katherine Heiny
FICTION: Its subtle comedy is worth paying attention to.
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