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Thunderclap, by Laura Cumming (Scribner). This memoir of artistic appreciation is centered largely on seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, but focusses particularly...
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The Lost Sons of Omaha, by Joe Sexton (Scribner). This anatomy of a killing in 2020, at a Black Lives...
“The Plot to Save South Africa,” “My Father’s Brain,” “Take What You Need,” and “Gravity and Center.” Source link
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In the Orchard, by Eliza Minot (Knopf). This novel, an examination of motherhood, unfolds in the course of a night...
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“Nothing Stays Put,” “Still Life with Bones,” “Stealing,” and “Hit Parade of Tears.” Source link
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Romantic Comedy, by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House). Flirting with the tropes of its namesake genre, this playful novel follows Sally,...
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Picasso the Foreigner, by Annie Cohen-Solal, translated from the French by Sam Taylor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Born in Málaga,...
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Biography of X, by Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In this intricate, metafictional novel, a recently widowed writer embarks...
After seven years largely away from the stage, the singer and mogul used the halftime show to perform a dozen...
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CNN — Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said it would temporarily halt transfers of US dollars starting Wednesday. “Only...