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A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir by Norris Church Mailer
feature A Ticket to the Circus is the forthright memoir by the sixth wife of Norman Mailer.
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Author of the week: Sarah Silverman
feature Silverman’s new memoir, The Bedwetter, is an “odd, shambling, and funny” work.
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Also of interest ... in American portraits
feature A Country Called Amreeka by Alia Malek; Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky; The Publisher by Alan Brinkley; Tocqueville’s Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch
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Also of interest ... in rebels and game-changers
feature Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Al; Steinbrenner by Bill Madden; Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende; Revolutionaries by Jack Rakove
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Author of the week: Christopher Hitchens
feature Among the provocative disclosures in Hitchens' memoir, Hitch-22, is that before he became known as a hard-drinking womanizer, he was enthusiastically bisexual.
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Also of interest ... in domestic dramas
feature Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House by Meghan Daum; Every Last One by Anna Quindlen; The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore; The Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
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Spoken From the Heart by Laura Bush
feature The First Lady shuts down when recounting life as a politician’s wife, but the first half of the book is an artful, heartbreaking coming-of-age story.
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Book of the week: Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre
feature Ben Macintyre’s perfectly pitched account of Operation Mincemeat reads like a nonfiction thriller.
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The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise by Garret Keizer
feature The history of noise, says the author, is in many ways also a “history of fossil fuels,” and it's man-made noises, not natural ones, that usually drive us nuts.
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Book of the week: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
feature The former editor for The Economist argues that our species started on its path to success when a pair of our ancestors agreed to exchange one object for another.
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Author of the week: Daniel S. Greenberg
feature In Tech Transfer, the former Science magazine editor offers a “hilarious” and scathing portrait of how greed and conflict of interest trump the pursuit of scientific knowledge.
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Also of interest ... in spirituality and religion
feature Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch; The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman; Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson; God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero
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The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine
feature The author of the 2006 best-seller, The Female Brain, has assembled a user’s guide to the male brain that makes clear we aren’t all working with the same hardware.
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Book of the week: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
feature A Shakespearean scholar unravels the origins and surveys the theories behind the belief that William Shakespeare was a fraud.
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