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Everybody’s Fool (Random House) is Richard Russo’s latest novel. It’s a sequel to his 1993 book Nobody’s Fool. Betsy Burton says “everyone you loved and…
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In LaRose (Harper), Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, two families and five generations float in and out of each other’s lives. Betsy Burton says, “Knitting…
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In Everyone Brave is Forgiven (Simon & Schuster), the new novel by Chris Cleave, Mary North wants to help fight World War II. She winds up in an abandoned…
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Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-five Years (Scribner), by Andrew Solomon, collects the author’s essays from…
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Fool Me Once (Dutton Books) is the latest Harlan Coban thriller: Maya, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, is mourning her murdered husband. Thing is,…
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Tuesday Nights in 1980 (Scout Press) is Molly Prentiss’s debut novel. It’s about two orphans, art, and bohemian life in 1970s and 80s New York. In her…
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Katharine Coles teaches in the English Department at The University of Utah, and she’s a former Poet Laureate of Utah. She just published her sixth…
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In And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster), journalist Richard Engel offers his account of reporting from Tunisa,…
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Poet and novelist Jim Harrison died recently. Three novellas are brought together in his final book The Ancient Minstrel. In her review, Betsy Burton says…
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The Summer Before the War (Random House) is Helen Simonson’s latest novel. It’s set in Rye, East Sussex, just before World War I. The death of Beatrice’s…
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In The Waters of Eternal Youth (Atlantic Monthly Press) by Donna Leon, Commissario Guido Brunetti suspects foul play in an accident that left a young girl…
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In Innocents and Others (Scribner) by Dana Spiotta, a young woman pushes her documentary filmmaking as far as she can. Betsy Burton says, “In one sense…