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“The House of the Pain of Others,” by the Mexican writer Julián Herbert, revisits the murder of 300 Chinese immigrants over three days in 1911, during the Mexican Revolution.
By Parul Sehgal
“Save Me the Plums” is a delicious memoir of a decade that took her from the glory days of Condé Nast to the morning when the office door was closed for good.
By Kate Betts
Rooney’s second novel tracks two gifted but troubled teenagers across four years of friendship and occasional romance.
By Dwight Garner
Peter Heller’s “The River” juxtaposes a tense social situation with a raging wildfire.
By Denise Mina
The Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, last year’s winner, was among five women on the shortlist of six for this year’s prize for translated literature.
By Alex Marshall
“Charged,” by Emily Bazelon, argues that prosecutors have far too much power over the outcomes of criminal cases and lays out a path for urgent reform.
By David Lat
Adam Higginbotham talks about his sweeping new history of the nuclear accident and its aftermath, and Nellie Bowles discusses Clive Thompson’s “Coders.”
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“The House of the Pain of Others,” by the Mexican writer Julián Herbert, revisits the murder of 300 Chinese immigrants over three days in 1911, during the Mexican Revolution.
By Parul Sehgal
In “Women’s Work,” Megan K. Stack dares a closer look at the domestic labor arrangements that have made her writing possible.
By Jennifer Szalai
Toews’s eighth book was inspired by a real-life series of attacks in a Mennonite community.
By Parul Sehgal
Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” follows the intense relationships and betrayals among high school friends and their teachers.
By Dwight Garner
William Sturkey’s “Hattiesburg” is a story of racism and economics that offers a close-up, intimate view of segregation.
By Jennifer Szalai
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