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People are buying the wrong 'Fire and Fury' book

People are buying the wrong 'Fire and Fury' book

Historian and author Randall Hansen's book, "Fire And Fury: The Allied Bombing Of Germany 1942-1945," has been mistaken by buyers for Michael Wolff's Trump expose and selling out.
by Ari Shapiro and Kelly McEvers

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'Winter' balances dark days with flashes of joy and light

'Winter' balances dark days with flashes of joy and light

he second volume in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet takes place over a tense family Christmas in Cornwall that reunites two sisters whose lives have taken vastly diverging paths.
by Heller McAlpin

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For 'The Immortalists,' knowledge of death changes lives

For 'The Immortalists,' knowledge of death changes lives

In Chloe Benjamin's new book, four siblings growing up on the Lower East Side amid the upheavals of the 1960s gain forbidden, life-changing knowledge: The exact year and date of their deaths.
by Jean Zimmerman

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Posthumously published 'Sea Maiden' affirms Denis Johnson's eternal voice

Posthumously published 'Sea Maiden' affirms Denis Johnson's eternal voice

A new collection features five stand-alone stories by Johnson, who died in 2017. Critic Maureen Corrigan says "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" is "the kind of work every writer would like to go out on."
by Maureen Corrigan

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Want a new you for the New Year? These books might actually help

Want a new you for the New Year? These books might actually help

Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer live by a new self-help book for each episode of their podcast By the Book, so they're experts on which ones might really help us keep our New Year's resolutions.
by Ari Shapiro

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What history and fiction teach us about women and power

What history and fiction teach us about women and power

Psychologist Tania Lombrozo considers two books: In one, we learn what ancient Greece can tell us about Twitter trolls and, in the other, we're shown a world in which women have power over men.
by Tania Lombrozo

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In 'Red Sky at Noon,' a Western on the Eastern front

In 'Red Sky at Noon,' a Western on the Eastern front

Simon Sebag Montefiore's new novel, set during World War II, follows a Jewish political prisoner who's pressed into a battalion of convicts and Cossacks and sent to fight the Nazis on horseback.

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Nixon's manhunt for the high priest of LSD

Nixon's manhunt for the high priest of LSD

Author Bill Minutaglio's new book chronicles Timothy Leary's international escape from a California prison and the president's campaign to make him the poster child for his war on drugs.
by Ari Shapiro

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