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In his careful yet provocative contemplation of religious history, Robert Wright sees continuous positive moral change over time but denies the specialness of any individual faith.
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What’s in a job? A writer shadows workers to find out.
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For William Masters and Virginia Johnson, this biographical account reveals, it was all sex all the time, but love was a forbidden word.
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Richard N. Haass, who did government service under both Bushes and became a critic of the son’s policies, contrasts the wars each fought with Iraq.
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Robert Boswell’s latest stories star a cast of heartland misfits next door, captured in moments when circumstance drags them in new directions.
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Ruiz Zafón’s writer hero, a tormented soul in Barcelona, suspects he’s made a pact with the devil.
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In eight linked stories, a worldly eccentric narrator toys with self and unreality.
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The strands of this nuanced historical novel involve a Dickensian orphan in Tasmania and Charles Dickens himself at a fraught midlife turning point.
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This biography of Arthur Miller taps previously unseen material and shows the playwright trying to hold on to his soul in midcentury America.
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A pianist becomes the lover of a politically committed Chechen in this intelligent, affecting novel.
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A wide-ranging history of Western man’s erotic fixation on the East, from ancient Chinese sex manuals to Flaubert in Egypt to today’s Bangkok.
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An account of the gripping tennis match between the American Don Budge and the German Gottfried von Cramm on the eve of World War II.
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This vivid account of Queen Victoria’s marriage analyzes her suffering under what she called “the yoke” of matrimony.
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A member of the Soviet secret police with blood on his hands seeks redemption as Stalin’s era ends in this sequel to “Child 44.”
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This first novel’s young cartography-obsessed narrator leaves Montana on a trek to the East Coast.
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Reviews of new mystery novels by Janet Evanovich, C. J. Box, Jim Kelly and Tarquin Hall.
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Joshua Cooper Ramo calls for a new generation of policy solutions for global problems.
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Mark Helprin scrappily defends the rights of individual creators in this furious treatise against Internet culture.
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Reviews of novels by Tania James, Thomas Leveritt, Dara Horn and Vestal McIntyre.
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Cristina Nehring’s literary and historical inquiry into the nature of love is an ardent polemic for a more difficult, vital image of passion she feels we have lost.
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A historian argues that the Gilded Age and Progressive Era incubated many subsequent national ills.
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In this affable first novel, alternating chapters present the viewpoints of four women who establish enduring bonds in their first week at Smith College.
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Edna O’Brien’s mischievously complicit biography skates over Byron’s literary career to showcase his dissolute behavior.
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The Chicago clan at the center of Joe Meno’s latest novel embody humanity’s propensity for nervous cowardice.
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A California novel of striving, sabotage, style and sex.
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