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Also of interest...in family portraits
feature Fin & Lady; Love All; Son of a Gun; In Times of Fading Light
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Book of the week: Wilson by A. Scott Berg
feature In this monumental new portrait of Wilson, the award-winning biographer A. Scott Berg casts his subject as a tragic figure.
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Also of interest...in long, winding roads
feature The Woman Who Lost Her Soul; On the Trail of Genghis Khan; Ninety Percent of Everything; The Childhood of Jesus
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Book of the week: For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law by Randall Kennedy
feature Randall Kennedy's pro-affirmative-action précis “bristles with conviction.”
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Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno
feature How would the famously reclusive author react to this 600-page biography and associated documentary?
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Author of the week: Marilyn Hagerty
feature The 87-year-old North Dakota scribe isn’t your typical food critic.
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Also of interest...in how the upper crust live
feature Daughter of Empire; Crazy Rich; Alone Together; Empty Mansions
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Author of the week: Daniel Woodrell
feature Daniel Woodrell has made the most of his hardscrabble upbringing.
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Author of the week: Jesmyn Ward
feature Novelist Jesmyn Ward might as well have grown up in a war zone.
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen
feature Anya Von Bremzen has built a “delectable” memoir around a cookbook first published by the Soviet government in 1939.
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Also of interest...in dispatches from the suburbs
feature Nine Inches; The Measures Between Us; Duplex; The End of the Suburbs
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Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero
feature Lack of evidence rarely kills any story that people wish to believe.
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Book of the week: Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
feature In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, doctors at New Orleans’s Memorial Medical Center were forced to make some controversial calls.
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Author of the week: Alfredo Corchado
feature Journalist Alfredo Corchado is man enough to admit that his mother knew his beat better than he did.
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