Fiction
Colson Whitehead on George Saunders’s Novel About Lincoln and Lost Souls
George Saunders’s first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” imagines the president visiting the graveyard where his young son has just been buried.
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CreditFrom “The Attack,” written by Loïc Dauvillier and illustrated by Glen Chapron Fiction & Nonfiction
Drawn Into the Middle East: A Novel, a Memoir and an Account of Life in the Region
An Israeli Arab surgeon discovers his wife’s secret, little Riad Sattouf goes to school in Syria and a cartoonist travels the region.
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Ali Smith: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “Autumn” ranks “Invitation to a Beheading” among the great books: “Nabokov treats us to, then liberates us from, the bad farce of totalitarianism. What a blast.”
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Lincoln Served Six Ways: Reframing a President
In “Six Encounters with Lincoln,” Elizabeth Brown Pryor casts a new light on Lincoln’s leadership.
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CreditRobert Beatty It’s Not Really on Your Side
In “Why Time Flies,” Alan Burdick intertwines an account of his own personal struggle with time with an extensive overview of laboratory experiments.
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CreditAssociated Press Emmett Till’s Murder: What Really Happened That Day in the Store?
Timothy B. Tyson’s “The Blood of Emmett Till” is an account of absorbing and sometimes horrific detail.
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CreditSteve Marcus/Reuters An Insider-Trading Tale That Reads Like a Thriller
Sheelah Kolhatkar’s “Black Edge” is about the feds’ pursuit of a hedge fund manager.
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Children’s Books
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CreditFrom "Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat" Bookshelf: Five Iconic African-American Biographies for Kids
New picture books about Jean-Michel Basquiat, Muhammad Ali and others.
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Best Sellers
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Credit Best-Seller Lists for Feb. 19, 2017
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Author’s Note
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CreditLeon Edler Headed for the Graveyard of Books
It wasn’t the hope of immortality that goaded me to write: It was obsession.
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Nonfiction
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CreditEd Ou for The New York Times ‘Generation Revolution’: Why Youth Was Not Enough in Egypt
“Generation Revolution” by Rachel Aspden shows that the young in Egypt are improbably looking forward and backward at the same time.
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Reader's Notebook
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CreditHarperCollins Publishers Finding America, Both Red and Blue, in the ‘Little House’ Books
On Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 150th birthday, the vision of life depicted in her popular novels still speaks to our country’s promise — and to its divides.
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The Book Review Podcast
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Credit George Saunders Talks About ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’
Saunders talks about his first novel; Maria Russo discusses Laura Ingalls Wilder and the “Little House” books; and Alan Burdick on “Why Times Flies.”
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Credit 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
