The New York Times Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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When Rebecca Hall first read Nella Larsen’s groundbreaking 1929 novel, “Passing,” she felt an intense, immediate attachment to it. The story seemed to clarify so much that was mysterious about her own identity and the unnameable gaps in her family history. https://t.co/nohZbCmAcM

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The best-selling Southern crime novelist returns with a gripping story about a finance manager who, while visiting his injured father in Virginia, becomes slowly ensnared in his brother’s dangerous dealings with a vicious drug syndicate.

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McCann’s latest novel begins with a fairly straightforward narrative... But through authorial wiles and expertly placed sentences, McCann... makes this premise both urgent and enigmatic. Unexpected sunderings form the core emotional motif of the novel.

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Schaefer’s ambitious debut follows what happens when Nathaniel, a 16-year-old from Massachusetts, disappears while visiting his stoner uncle in Austin, Texas. The ensuing narrative, packed with such eccentric characters...meditates on shifting identities and America’s social fabric.

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“My Brilliant Friend” is entrenched as one of the premier examples of so-called autofiction, a category that has dominated the literature of the 21st century. Reading this uncompromising, unforgettable novel is like riding a bike on gravel: It’s gritty and slippery and nerve-racking, all at the same time.

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Sheff’s new biography of Yoko Ono ... convincingly argues for her relevance as a feminist, activist, avant-garde innovator, and world-class sass. The book is predictably sympathetic, but not fawning ... for a figure who was not just dismissed but demonized.

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Many novels take place over the course of a single day... Fewer chart the course of a single evening, as does Zink’s narrative of one excruciating, tangled, exhilarating, humiliating night in Berlin... a voice that is cool...and possessed of a screwball comic sensibility rooted in pain.

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In "Persuasion," Dakota Johnson smirks her way through a Netflix adaptation of the rekindled romance in Jane Austen's last novel. "There is a crisis of contemporaneity at the heart of this pretty adaptation," our critic writes. https://t.co/bHnYVjzT8o

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Ernest Hemingway left a trove of items in a Key West bar more than 80 years ago. The items, including four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts and boxes of personal effects, are now part of a new archive at Penn State. https://t.co/A3UVSzYayR https://t.co/ut0N8zbEh0

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Imagine “Apollo 13” crossed with Kristin Hannah’s “The Women” and you have the gist of Reid’s latest, set in the 1980s space program in Houston... [Reid’s characters are] bold, bighearted and more than willing to test boundaries — atmospheric and otherwise.

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