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Laverne Cox on her childhood, 'Walden' and her new memoir 'Transcendent'
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In 'The Jellyfish Problem,' an introverted scientist is called in to help an island
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Sen. Chris Murphy wants the left and right to fix the country’s 'spiritual rot'
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In 'Contrapposto,' the meaning of love and the meaning of art go hand-in-hand
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Two romance books give opposite takes on love, relationships and the absence of both
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In 'Stolen Revolution,' six Iranians share perspectives on modern Iran and its future
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'The Yahoo Boys' investigates Nigeria’s network of cyber crime 'sweetheart scams'
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R.F. Kuang says there’s 'quite a lot' of herself in 'Katabasis' protagonist Alice
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Theo Baker delves into power and corruption at Stanford in 'How to Rule the World'
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Ann Patchett’s 'Whistler' and 'Tom Lake' are novels written with love in mind
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'A Pair of Aces' is about two women who face down the mob in 1930s New York
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In 'Keeper of My Kin,' Ada Ferrer struggles with being her mother's "chosen one"
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Maggie O'Farrell's novel 'Land' takes readers to a famine-ravaged yet resilient Ireland
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In 'View From the East Wing,' Jill Biden reflects on the debate that changed history
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Two new books ask: What would you do if you encountered alien life?
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'Big Fan' investigates fandom from darts and football to Taylor Swift
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Ben Crump says 'Worse Than a Lie' is a legal thriller wrapped in Black culture
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In 'Mother Tongue,' author Sara Nović examines deaf history, and writes her own
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ABC News' Martha Raddatz on 'The Hero Next Door,' her collection of veterans’ stories
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Two new books about writing break down the creative process
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In 'The Foursome,' conjoined twins marry two sisters — and that’s just the beginning
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'Cherry Baby' holds a mirror to its main character - and to the GLP-1 industry itself
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'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' chronicles the history of the Jewish Labor Bund
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'A Perfect Hand' is a romp through 19th-century England, with a suffragist twist
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Two new murder mysteries cleverly explore the meta — in two very different ways
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In 'Backtalker,' Kimberlé Crenshaw turns from political theory to personal memoir
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In 'Homebound,' an epic journey through multiverses begins with a single video game
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'The People Can Fly' examines the history of Black prodigies from poets to professors
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Revisiting 'Whalefall,' the underwater thriller from Pulitzer winner Daniel Kraus
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Two new books approach running from different angles
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Reflecting on 30 years of 'The Golden Compass' with Sir Philip Pullman
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In 'The Future is Peace,' tourism paves a way forward for Israelis and Palestinians
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In 'The Ending Writes Itself,' a contest to complete a manuscript turns deadly
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Mark Helprin’s 'Elegy in Blue' is a tragedy, love story and ghost story all in one
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Journalist Jodi Kantor and happiness expert Arthur Brooks on how to find purpose
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Lena Dunham on her memoir 'Famesick' and the intense bond between 'Girls' co-stars
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In 'Dear Monica Lewinsky,' a woman turns to an unusual saint for support
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Belle Burden on 'Strangers,' her divorce, and financial literacy for women
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'Spies and Other Gods' is an espionage novel by a former British intelligence officer
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'The Take' and 'The Left and the Lucky' explore peculiar friendships across age
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Mikhail Zygar says the Soviet Union’s collapse was only a temporary win for democracy
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In 'Yesteryear,' a tradwife influencer wakes up in the time period she’s fetishized
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'Infinity Machine' is a biography of an Oppenheimer-like figure in AI
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In Maria Semple’s 'Go Gentle,' a surprise love interest upends a Stoic life
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Ada Limón talks forgiveness, ghosts and fertility on 'Wild Card'
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Healing through poetry in 'Light For The World To See'
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In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of 'deaf gain' instead of hearing loss
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In 'Poet Warrior', Joy Harjo uses poetry to deal with pain and heal
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Poet Ocean Vuong shares his grief in 'Time Is A Mother'
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Brandy Norwood and Arsenio Hall's memoirs look back on careers that defined the '90s
