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Nonfiction: An Earlier Age When the United States Kept Immigrants Out

Michael Dobbs’s “The Unwanted” describes the plight of European Jews trying to escape extermination by the Nazis. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/books/review/michael-dobbs-unwanted.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Nonfiction: A Passion for Punctuation Meets a Love for All Things Greek

Mary Norris’s “Greek to Me” is an exuberant account of a decades-long obsession with a culture and its language. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/books/review/mary-norris-greek-to-me.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Nonfiction: A 500-Year-Old Tale of Intrigue, Greed and Betrayal

In “The Lost Gutenberg,” Margaret Davis traces the colorful history of a rare Bible through its owners. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/books/review/margaret-leslie-davis-lost-gutenberg.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Books of The Times: The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf

Much of what’s in the report was already known, but our book critic says it still has “the power to shock and appall.” from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/books/review-mueller-report.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Poetry: In ‘Swift,’ David Baker’s Poetry Stitches the Fractured World Into Art

For almost 40 years, in the extreme suburbs and the diminishing countryside, Baker has worked to see and describe things as though for the first time. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/books/review/david-baker-swift-poems.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Prescribed Reading: What You Should Read to Understand the Measles Epidemic

In her Prescribed Reading column, Abigail Zuger looks at books exploring the immune system and the tumultuous history of vaccination. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/books/review/measles-epidemic-vaccination.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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The Shortlist: A Serial Killer Clown, You Say? Now That’s Dark Comedy

New collections from Carianne Leung (“That Time I Loved You”), Amy Hempel (“Sing to It”) and Mark Mayer (“Aerialists”) balance anxiety with humor. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/books/review/new-story-collections.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Prescribed Reading: What You Should Read to Understand the Measles Epidemic

In her Prescribed Reading column, Abigail Zuger looks at books exploring the immune system and the tumultuous history of vaccination. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/books/review/measles-epidemic-vaccination.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Books of The Times: With Sensuality and Coolness, a Debut Novel Considers the (Partial) Truths We Tell About Ourselves

The narrator of Aysegul Savas’s “Walking on the Ceiling” writes from present-day Istanbul, remembering time she spent adrift in Paris and London after the death of her mother. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/books/review-walking-on-ceiling-aysegul-savas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Fiction: A Suspicious Death Exposes Painful Fissures in a Mojave Desert Town

In “The Other Americans,” a powerful new novel by Laila Lalami, a diverse group of citizens are forced to question their beliefs and allegiances after a Moroccan immigrant is killed. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/books/review/laila-lalami-the-other-americans.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Poetry: In ‘Swift,’ David Baker’s Poetry Stitches the Fractured World Into Art

For almost 40 years, in the extreme suburbs and the diminishing countryside, Baker has worked to see and describe things as though for the first time. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/books/review/david-baker-swift-poems.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Nonfiction: Anna Quindlen’s No. 1 Rule for Grandparents: Butt Out

In her new essay collection, “Nanaville,” the novelist and former Times columnist writes about what she’s learned since becoming a grandmother. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/books/review/nanaville-anna-quindlen.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Nonfiction: Turkey’s Killing Fields

In “The Thirty-Year Genocide,” the Israeli historians Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi detail the slaughter of Turkey’s Christian minorities. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/books/review/benny-morris-dror-zeevei-thirty-year-genocide.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Nonfiction: Dismantling the Myth of ‘The Heartland’

The new book by the historian Kristin L. Hoganson explodes conventional ideas about the Midwest as America’s “insulated core” — the wellspring of its values and identity. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/books/review/kristin-hoganson-heartland.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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New & Noteworthy, From Walt Whitman and More

A selection of recent poetry books (plus Whitman’s ruminations); and a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/books/review/new-poetry-collections.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One.

The subject of attention is everywhere in publishing these days, spanning disparate genres from self help to satire to fiction. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/books/attention-books-jenny-odell.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Nonfiction: Cash, Jewels and Gold: The Tale of Britain’s Biggest Heist

In “The Last Job,” Dan Bilefsky explores a famous London robbery that was masterminded by a 76-year-old pensioner. from Latest News https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/books/review/dan-bilefsky-last-job.html?partner=rss&emc=rss