New York Times Sunday Book Review
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TBR: Inside the List
Crime sellers in the spotlight and Dan Brown’s “Inferno” makes its debut on the hardcover fiction list at No. 1.
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Maria Semple: By the Book
The author of “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” calls Franzen her “big daddy” — “My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that’s grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.”
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‘Between My Father and the King,’ by Janet Frame
Janet Frame was saved from undergoing a lobotomy when a book of her stories won a local literary prize.
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‘The Hanging Garden,’ by Patrick White
In the eyes of Patrick White’s two refugee children, most Australians are horrible and very few are kind.
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Open Book: Battle of the Brain
The National Institute of Mental Health has distanced itself from the “D.S.M.,” the so-called bible of psychiatry, the fifth edition of which is published this week.
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‘You Are One of Them,’ by Elliott Holt
Amid entanglements between Russia and young Americans, a first novel explores the sense of betrayal in the loss of family and friends.
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‘Flora,’ by Gail Godwin
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Editors’ Choice
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Essay: Bulgakov’s Ghost
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Crime: Walter Mosley’s ‘Little Green,’ and More
Walter Mosley is never better than when he’s got a juicy cut of history to chew on — this time the late ’60s.
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‘Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan,’ by William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple seeks contemporary lessons in Britain’s disastrous 19th-century invasion of Afghanistan.
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Letter: Against Amanda
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