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Our Week in Reviews: 7/4/26

A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.

    Putin’s Sledgehammer

    Book Review

    Putin’s Sledgehammer

    By Candace Rondeaux

    An engrossing look at Yevgeny Prighozin’s soldiers-for-hire.

    Centroeuropa

    Book Review

    Centroeuropa

    By Vicente Luis Mora; translated by Rahul Bery

    A quirky fairytale replete with a witch, a giant, and lots of corpses.

    Book Review

    Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion

    A congenial consideration of the words that lure us inside the covers.

    Book Review

    The Hero of This Book: A Novel

    By Elizabeth McCracken

    The Hero of This Book: A Novel

    Readers will be delighted co-conspirators in allowing this memoir to masquerade as fiction.

    Book Review

    Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

    An empathetic look at the power of personal mental-health narratives.

    Author Q&A

    Breaking the Silence

    Michèle Sarde searches for her family’s Jewish roots.

    Author Q&A

    An Interview with Max Hastings

    The renowned historian turns his attention to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Book Review

    Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel

    By Kate Atkinson

    Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel

    A raucous, Dickensian jaunt through Jazz Age London.

    Children’s Books

    Children’s Book Roundup: October 2022

    Big new titles perfect for the littles.

    Book Review

    Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

    Meet the women who shaped the world of spycraft.