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6 New Books We Recommend This Week
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The Secret to Tom Wolfe’s Irresistible Snap, Crackle and Pop
How the author of “The Right Stuff,” “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” and other classics turned sociology into art.
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CreditSam Falk/The New York Times Sausage Legs and Wax Nose Jobs: Peeling the Layers on a Century of Beauty
In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.
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His Trilogy Explored the Nazi Era. Now He Looks at the People Behind It.
In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich.
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In “Prisoner of Lies,” Barry Werth tells the story of a young C.I.A. operative who spent two decades waiting out the postwar era in a Chinese jail cell.
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CreditBob Child/Associated Press NonfictionA History of Teeth That’s Chock-Full of Trivia to Chew On
Show the zoologist Bill Schutt what your mouth looks like, and he’ll tell you who you are.
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CreditGlen Stubbe/Star Tribune, via Getty Images nonfictionYoko Ogawa Loves Finding Love at the Bookstore
“My gaze meets the spine of a certain book,” explains the author of “The Memory Police.” “We exchange glances. … This book has chosen me.” Her latest novel to be translated from Japanese is “Mina’s Matchbox.”
CreditRebecca Clarke By the BookLiz Moore on ‘The God of the Woods’
The author discusses her best-selling new novel about family secrets and a missing camper.
CreditPhoto Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Maggie Casey, via Penguin Random House The Book Review PodcastCan We Talk? The Characters in These 2 Books Can, and How
Evelyn Waugh’s garrulous embalmers; Deborah Eisenberg’s urban neurotics.
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A memoir by a former high-end dealer depicts a largely unregulated industry where jet-setting extravagance goes hand in hand with guile and deceit.
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Creditvia Orlando Whitfield Browsing Is a Pleasure in This History of the Bookstore
“People feel differently about their bookstore than they do about their grocery store or electronics store,” writes Evan Friss, in praise of a retail ritual battered by the internet.
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CreditDaniel Dorsa for The New York Times The Woman Who Beat the Boys of the French New Wave to the Punch
A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.
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CreditOwen Franken for The New York Times A Memoir That Delivers on Its Promise of ‘Sex, Drugs, and Opera’
In “Seeing Through,” the prolific composer Ricky Ian Gordon shares the heroes, monsters, obsessions and fetishes that drive his art and fuel a dizzying life.
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CreditVictor Llorente for The New York Times Don’t Worry, Be Happy? ‘Feh’ on That.
Misery makes for good company in Shalom Auslander’s second memoir, which finds him self-deprecating, drug-dabbling, envious and, oy, middle-aged.
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Can We Talk? The Characters in These 2 Books Can, and How
Evelyn Waugh’s garrulous embalmers; Deborah Eisenberg’s urban neurotics.
Sausage Legs and Wax Nose Jobs: Peeling the Layers on a Century of Beauty
In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.
By Sadie Stein
episodeMy Wild Night With Edna O’Brien
On the trail of Ralph Fiennes in 1990s Manhattan, the esteemed novelist pays a visit to a burlesque club.
By Giulia Melucci
NonfictionThe Spy America Left to Rot
In “Prisoner of Lies,” Barry Werth tells the story of a young C.I.A. operative who spent two decades waiting out the postwar era in a Chinese jail cell.
By Kevin Peraino
FictionShe Was a Pioneering but Forgotten Musician. Now She’s a Literary Hero.
In her debut novel, “ The Instrumentalist,” Harriet Constable paints a vivid and nuanced portrait of the groundbreaking 18th-century violinist and conductor Anna Maria della Pietà.
By Valeriya Safronova
FictionWeathering the Long Siege of Sarajevo Alone, a Painter Keeps Painting
Priscilla Morris’s novel “Black Butterflies” makes the case for art in times of war.
By Bea Setton
Liz Moore on ‘The God of the Woods’
The author discusses her best-selling new novel about family secrets and a missing camper.
A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt
In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.
By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean
Paperback Row6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Maya Binyam, John Szwed, Nathan Thrall and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
TimesVideo4 Long Books to Sink Your Teeth Into
MJ Franklin, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, gives his recommendations of four long books to spend time with.
By MJ Franklin and Claire Hogan
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