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Book Review: Emily Henry is still the modern-day rom-com queen with ‘Funny Story’
“Funny Story” isn’t a funny story at all, but it is a good one. It starts with dueling breakups that have rocked the two main characters’ worlds and forced them to bond over their shared broken hearts.
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Book Review: ‘Nothing But the Bones’ is a compelling noir novel at a breakneck pace
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Book Review: Hampton Sides revisits Captain James Cook, a divisive figure in the South Pacific
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Book Review: Jen Silverman’s gripping second novel explores the long afterlife of political violence
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Book Review: Short story anthology ‘The Black Girl Survives in This One’ challenges the horror canon
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Book Review: ‘City of Ruins’ completes a masterful Don Winslow trilogy
As “City in Ruins” opens, former mobster Danny Ryan is a silent partner in two Las Vegas casinos. He is fabulously rich but wants more. Why?
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Book Review: ‘Glorious Exploits’ turns classical history into an endearing comedy about tragedy
Best friends Lampo and Gelon are potters by trade, but in their souls they’re poets. It’s 412 B.C. and the ancient city of Syracuse doesn’t know what hit it when these two hatch up the best worst idea: They’ll put on a play using the Athenian prisoners of war who are starving to death down in the ro
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Book Review: ‘Newshawks in Berlin’ illustrates tough choices news organizations face in wartime
“Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany” explores the challenges the world’s largest news organization faced in its coverage of World War II.
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Book Review: Debut novel `Headshot’ gives us head shots of the psyches of teenage girl boxers
Rita Bullwinkel’s debut novel “Headshot” takes place in a rundown gym in Nevada, where eight teenage girls are competing in the final rounds of a youth boxing championship.
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Book Review: A coming-of-age story of a young Black man who works for an Obama-adjacent candidate
Vinson Cunningham’s day job is writing theater reviews for the New Yorker magazine. Now he has published his first novel, “Great Expectations.”
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Book Review: Tessa Hulls feeds her family’s ghosts by bringing them to light in rich graphic memoir
When Tessa Hulls sets out to tell her family’s story, she’s feeding their ghosts in the best way she’s learned how: by pulling them into the light.
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Book Review: ‘Means of Control’ charts the disturbing rise of a secretive US surveillance regime
In the book “Means of Control,” former Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau exposes in disturbing detail how private Beltway contractors have grown a secretive surveillance regime, AP technology reporter Frank Bajak writes.
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Book Review: Elizabeth Brooks’ Austen-esque WWII novel has romance, betrayal and a touch of macabre
In a chance meeting in 1934, Nina invites the Nicholsons to dinner. She’s 14, trying on womanhood for the first time, and quickly becomes smitten with Guy Nicholson.
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Book Review: ‘The Hunter’ is a dark and lyrical tale of revenge, friendship and loyalty in collision
Trey Reddy, a teenage girl in a remote Irish village, blames her neighbors for the unsolved murder of her brother. She also despises her father for abandoning her.
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Book Review: Thomas Mullen’s portrayal of a divided nation in 1943 draws parallels to today
In 1943, as American soldiers confront a German Army in North Africa, the city of Boston is rife with antisemitic rumors, and support for the war is not universal.
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Book Review: Melissa Albert’s ‘The Bad Ones’ is a gripping story of friendship and the supernatural
Four people have disappeared in a single night, and Nora’s best friend, Becca, is one of them. If they weren’t three months into a huge fight, maybe Nora would be able to parse out the clues Becca left for her.
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Book Review: Richard Roper charms and surprises with ’This Disaster Loves You’
Richard Roper, whose debut novel “Something to Live For,” featured a British sad-sack rediscovering his true self, returns with “This Disaster Loves You,” which Associated Press review Rob Merrill writes, is “about another man whose story is not quite what it seems.”
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Book Review: New collaborative novel ‘Fourteen Days’ proves the pandemic couldn’t curb creativity
Almost four years since COVID-19 became a household term, a new work of fiction proves that even a global pandemic can’t curb creativity, writes Rob Merrill in his Associated Press review of “Fourteen Days.”
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Book Review: George Pelecanos’ ‘Owning Up’ has elegant prose and well-drawn characters
George Pelecanos has produced fine crime novels about Washington, D.C., and written for critically-acclaimed television shows including “The Wire.”
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Book Review: ‘Almost Surely Dead’ is a smart supernatural thriller for a stormy night
Dunia Ahmed disappeared over a year ago. But before she vanished, weird things were happening, including multiple attempts on her life.
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Book Review: ‘Clover Hendry’s Day Off’ is an infectious, Ferris Bueller-inspired 24-hour adventure
What starts as a normal Thursday quickly transforms into, well, not a normal Thursday. “Clover Hendry’s Day Off” by Beth Morrey is a Ferris Bueller-inspired 24-hour adventure in which one 40-something pushover of a working mom says to heck with it: Today, Clover Hendry is living life for herself for
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Book Review: ‘Come and Get It’ takes readers back to school, blending gossip with weightier themes
Kiley Reid burst on the scene in 2019 with “Such a Fun Age,” which was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Book Review: Iranian-born Kaveh Akbar pens an unforgettable portrait of the poet as a young man
Kaveh Akbar is an up-and-coming young poet who has won numerous awards for poems that explore themes of spirituality and addiction.
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Book Review: Scholars analyze extremist white supremacy’s grip on U.S. politics and culture
Three sociologists who have studied racist movements in the U.S. for decades chronicle in “Out of Hiding, Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped” the history of U.S. white supremacy from the Ku Klux Klan to today’s far-right groups that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Book Review: ‘Sugar, Baby’ is a train wreck with no consequences that you can’t help but read
Agnes Green in the novel “Sugar, Baby” has been an outsider her whole life, with her strict conservative Christian upbringing directly at odds with her desire for romance, sex and parties.
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Book Review: Ralph Nader profiles corporate leaders he sees as role models in ‘The Rebellious CEO’
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader profiles business leaders he actually likes in “The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right.”
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Book Review: The Velvet Underground’s story and afterlife told in the oral history ‘Loaded’
Veteran journalist and author Dylan Jones tells the story of the Velvet Underground in “Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground.”
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Book Review: ‘Soldier of Destiny’ traces Ulysses S. Grant’s complicated route before the White House
Historian John Reeves examines Ulysses S. Grant’s relationship with slavery in his new biography “Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession and the Redemption of Ulysses S.
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Book Review: David Mamet screams at clouds in new collection of grievances about Hollywood
David Mamet takes on Hollywood in his new book. “Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood” is a collection of observations, stories and aphorisms about Hollywood from one of America’s foremost writers.
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Book Review: ‘Eyeliner’ examines the staple makeup product’s revolutionary role in global society
Zahra Hankir’s “Eyeliner: A Cultural History” takes readers on a global investigation of how the cosmetic product is used worldwide.
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Book Review: ‘Welcome to The O.C.’ serves as a definitive look-back at the 20-year-old Fox drama
Twenty years after “The O.C.” debuted, Rolling Stone TV critic Alan Sepinwall is taking readers back to Newport Beach.
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Book Review: ‘Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars’ argues history repeats itself
“There is nothing new under the sun.” So goes the adage which conveys the tendency for history to repeat itself.
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Book Review: Lauren Grodstein’s masterpiece of historical fiction set in Warsaw Ghetto during WWII
The Oneg Shabbat archive was a secret project of Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to record their histories as they awaited deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II.
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Book Review: A dazzlingly fun historical fiction, ‘A True Account’ tests the borders of reality
Hannah Masury, for a brief time, was a pirate. At least, according to the mysterious manuscript that shows up on Professor Marian Beresford’s desk, brought by a bright-faced student excited at the possibility of finding the treasure that Hannah left behind.
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Book Review: ‘I Would Meet You Anywhere’ is a breathtaking account of an adoptee’s search for family
Susan Kiyo Ito always knew she was adopted, but uncovering her birth family became a decadeslong process marked by moments of warm connection and icy divides.
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