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Crown The Girl Who Smiled Beads Defies Easy Uplift
Clemantine Wamariya’s memoir tries to make sense of a life fractured by the Rwandan genocide.
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Kevin Mazur / Getty Today's Rebels Are Model Children
The young protesters now on the march are responsible and mature—and they’re asking adults to grow up.
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Viking The Art of Vanishing Is a Marriage Memoir With Hidden Depths
Laura Smith looks to the haunting story of a missing child novelist to answer her own questions about balancing creativity and freedom with love and stability.
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Random House Educated Is a Brutal, One-of-a-Kind Memoir
Tara Westover's coming-of-age story follows her upbringing in a survivalist family, and her decision to leave that life behind. -
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Katie Martin / Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Best Books We Missed in 2017
And the titles their authors say they loved
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Sarabande Books The Propulsive Power of Catapult
A new dynamic collection of short stories from Emily Fridlund revels in discomfort and disorientation.
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Joe McKendry Shirley Temple, by the Numbers
A very short book excerpt
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A New Book About Formative Literary Friendships
A Secret Sisterhood explores the women who influenced Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.
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Riverhead A Champion of Slow Medicine
The physician and author Victoria Sweet finds her purpose.
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FSG The Identity Crisis of an American Abroad
Making sense of one’s home country from afar
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Dial Love and Gaming in The Chalk Artist
Allegra Goodman’s new novel tests its characters—a multiplayer obsessive, an artist, a high-school teacher—in ingenious ways.
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FSG A Primal and Eccentric Family Drama
Michael Frank’s sharp memoir about an unusual upbringing
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Pantheon The Disorienting Power of My Cat Yugoslavia
A review of Pajtim Statovci’s dark debut novel
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Random House A Writer’s Turmoil in The Rules Do Not Apply
The journalist Ariel Levy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity, and deploys prose to match in her memoir.
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Zak Bickel / Katie Martin / Paul Spella ... The Best Books We Missed in 2016
And the titles their authors say they loved
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The Ordinary Perpetrators and Victims in the Boko Haram Kidnappings
Helon Habila’s new book recounts the horror and revives the call to take notice.
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A Portrait of ‘Literary Malice’
In his most recent book, Alex Beam details the disintegration of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s friendship.
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How War Created Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren’s translated diaries don’t dwell on the origin of the popular fictional character—but rather illuminate the turbulent surroundings she emerged from.
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Harper The Gangly Texan Pianist Who Wooed Soviets During the Cold War
Russian audiences swooned over Van Cliburn during a fraught period in relations with his home country. Nigel Cliff tells the humble musician’s story in a new biography.
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Random House The Fraught Friendships of Eight Great Artists
Sebastian Smee’s group biography details four incentivizing rivalries between famous painters as they strove for excellence.
