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Summer fiction: Five edge-of-your-beach-chair reads
feature Joyland; The Shining Girls; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; The Son; Bad Monkey
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Also of interest...in icons of the 1970s
feature Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; The Friedkin Connection; Flip; I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
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A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert ‘Believe It or Not!’ Ripley by Neal Thompson
feature The man behind Ripley’s Believe It or Not led a life “every bit as crazy as one might expect.”
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Book of the week: Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
feature Nathaniel Philbrick makes the American Revolution feel like a story ripped from today’s news.
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Author of the week: Bill Cheng
feature Bill Cheng is making one bold debut.
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari by Paul Theroux
feature Paul Theroux proves to be “his delightfully grouchy and incisive self” throughout his trek from Cape Town to northern Angola.
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Book of the week: The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg
feature The storm brewing over the latest edition of psychiatry’s so-called bible is “not merely a matter for eggheads.”
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Author of the week: Ida Pollock
feature At 105, the energetic Briton can confidently claim to be the world’s oldest working romance novelist.
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Also of interest...in creative quests
feature Forty-one False Starts; The Ordinary Acrobat; Daily Rituals; A Grand Complication
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Also of interest...in good intentions gone awry
feature With Charity for All; The Humanity Project, How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick, Overbooked
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Author of the week: Daniel Post Senning
feature Good manners, Daniel Post Senning says, are far from obsolete.
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The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild
feature Rothschild heiress Pannonica de Koenigswarter created a minor scandal when she left her family to pursue her passion for American jazz.
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Also of interest...in successful family acts
feature Saul Bellow’s Heart; NOS4A2; Odds Against Tomorrow; Double Feature
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Author of the week: David Graeber
feature The Occupy Wall Street activist's new book explains how the Occupy movement could be a model for a new America.
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