All Us Saints: A Novel

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All Us Saints: A Novel

By Katherine Packert Burke

Traumatized siblings reenact a night of violence.

An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln

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An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln

By Lois Romano

The famously volatile figure is cast in a sympathetic light.

It All Felt Impossible

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It All Felt Impossible

By Tom McAllister

A man takes annual stock of his life in this unique collection.

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The Kennedy Question

By Ronald Goldfarb

The Kennedy Question

The newly published Vendetta sheds little new light on an old controversy

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The Murdstone Trilogy: A Novel

A novel with a good premise and a strong start that, unfortunately, declines as it grows in absurdity.

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The “Gig Economy”

…And why it’s old news for writers.

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An Interview with Thomas Mallon

A master of historical fiction discusses his craft.

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By Rev. Barry W. Lynn

God and Government: Twenty-Five Years of Fighting for Equality, Secularism, and Freedom of Conscience

This take-down of the Religious Right is more screed than story.

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Purity: A Novel

By Jonathan Franzen

Purity: A Novel

This multi-layered, much-anticipated novel will make believers out of Franzen skeptics.

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Fates and Furies

By Lauren Groff

Fates and Furies

An inventive tale of one marriage told from two very different perspectives.

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5 Most Popular Posts: August 2015

We here at the Independent love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. Having said that, here are August's winners.