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Bring Us Apart Rick Perlstein’s sprawling, rollicking book argues that Richard Nixon is the explanation for everything — or at least for the rise of the right and the decline of almost everything else.
Difficult Truths Honor Moore presents her father’s life and work, including his secrets.
All the Difference A biographical novel reconstructs Robert Frost’s life.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold After learning of a possibly fatal mutation lurking in her genes, Masha Gessen went in search of answers medical and moral.
Man in a Black Turban Patrick Cockburn’s life of the radical cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
The New New World In this examination of power, Fareed Zakaria focuses not so much on the decline of America, but on the rise of China and India.
Styron’s Choices Essays by William Styron illuminate his fiction’s themes.
On Poetry: Vendler’s Yeats Helen Vendler’s study of W. B. Yeats demonstrates the flaws that come from trying to ensure the Right Poets are read the Right Way.
Three Soldiers In a novel set in World War II, a sergeant commits murder in front of his unit.
Rough Justice Louise Edrich’s new novel examines the lasting repercussions of a small-town lynching.
The Mother Hood Meg Wolitzer’s novel is about New York women who have stayed home too long.
I Had a Funny Farm in Africa The author’s childhood in Botswana was anything but conventional.
The Fog of Love Andrew Sean Greer’s novel is appropriately set in San Francisco’s Sunset district.
Time of Her Life A 75-year-old journal resurrects a girl and a city.
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Essay: 1958: The War of the Intellectuals Fifty years ago, American critics worried about the collapsing distinction among highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow.
Archive: Book Review Podcast This week: Fareed Zakaria, author of “The Post-American World”; the children’s book author Walter Dean Myers; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
Up Front No conservative writer was tougher on Richard Nixon than George F. Will, the longtime columnist for The Washington Post and Newsweek.
TBR: Inside the List After a 10-year run, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books have fallen off The Times’s best-seller list.
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