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An Interview with John A. Jenkins

The journalist talks Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the summer when everything came to a head.

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    A childless woman seeks to make peace with her future and the planet’s.

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    The Case of Cem

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    The Case of Cem

    An ambitious if flat account of a long-ago, would-be sultan.

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    Young Love in the Crosshairs

    Reading Judy Blume’s oft-targeted Forever as an adult.

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    Tough Guy

    A biographer makes clear his disdain for his subject.

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    The Shards

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    The Shards

    A teenage Ellis contends with a serial killer in this autofictional memoir.

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    The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

    A fake aristocrat offered real salvation in WWII.

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    Beautyland: A Novel

    Tender, observational wit carries the reader happily along on this extraterrestrial journey.