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Jessica Winter's debut looks at the 1 percent

“Break in Case of Emergency” By Jessica Winter Knopf (288 pages, $25.95) Jessica Winter’s debut novel, “Break in Case of Emergency,” is an interesting study of the 1 percent and those striving to ...

Aug 31, 2016
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Old Hollywood glamour in 'Platinum Doll'

“Platinum Doll” By Anne Girard MIRA Books (352 pages, $15.99) “Madame Picasso” author Anne Girard takes on another bewitching figure from the past in “Platinum Doll,” a charming fictionalized acco...

Aug 31, 2016
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Tom Wolfe talks Darwin, Chomsky and human speech

NEW YORK (AP) -- After satirizing everything from “radical chic” to 20th century architecture, Tom Wolfe is now mining the mystery of language and the reputation of the most influential linguist of o...

Aug 31, 2016
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Alex Marwood delivers gripping cautionary tale

Cover of “The Darkest Secret” by Alex Marwood (Penguin Books) “The Darkest Secret” (Penguin Books) By Alex Marwood The disappearance of a child whose body is never found eventually implodes a fam...

Aug 31, 2016
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In North Korea, a hard-boiled (and fictional) cop keeps watch

NEW YORK (AP) -- The hero, a police inspector, prowls a city known more for its political malevolence than its street crime. If you read the local newspapers, you could think it’s a city with almost ...

Aug 29, 2016
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Han Kang's award-winning novel hits German market

Han Kang’s novel “The Vegetarian” has received enthusiastic responses from German news media upon being released in the European country, a state-run literary agency said Wednesday. The novel has go...

Aug 25, 2016
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Tiny Spanish publisher clones world's most mysterious book

BURGOS, Spain (AFP) - It's one of the world’s most mysterious books, a centuries-old manuscript written in an unknown or coded language that no one -- not even the best cryptographers -- has cracked....

Aug 24, 2016
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Korean literature magazine becomes more inclusive

Korean Literature Now features contributions by international literary figures

Aug 24, 2016
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Making of a ‘liberal icon’ charted

“Bobby Kennedy” By Larry Tye Random House (608 pages, $32) Unless you were old enough to remember the mid-1960s it might be hard to grasp the considerable impact the Kennedy family, particularly S...

Aug 24, 2016
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Extraordinary characters brought to life

“The Muse” By Jessie Burton Harper Collins (352 pages, $27.99) “The Muse” asks a lot of its readers, in the best of ways. It asks us to pay close attention, given the unexpected paths that wander ...

Aug 24, 2016
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Imagining surrealist battle against Nazis

“The Last Days of New Paris” By China Mieville Del Rey (205 pages, $25) Page for page, there is no one generating more utterly unfamiliar ideas than author China Mieville (“Perdido Street Station,...

Aug 24, 2016
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Bochco’s book: He rewrote TV’s rules and lived to tell it

NEW YORK (AP) -- For viewers who rejoice in TV’s artistic upsurge, one virtuoso perhaps more than anyone can be credited for elevating the medium from its bygone “boob tube” status. Steven Bochco fl...

Aug 24, 2016
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‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author offers insight on Trump's appeal

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) - For pundits and politicos baffled by the appeal of a wealthy New York businessman to the struggling white working class in Appalachia and Rust Belt mill towns, J.D. Vance's bo...

Aug 24, 2016
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Your life is comfy compared to the hell of the North Korean border

“How I Became a North Korean” By Krys Lee Viking (244 pages, $27) Forgetting the complexities of other lives is so easy these days, immersed as we are in our daily grinds, our political battles, o...

Aug 17, 2016
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Essays illuminate fears of disaster

“This Is Only a Test” By B.J. Hollars Break Away Books (180 pages, $17) In his essay collection “This Is Only a Test,” B.J. Hollars is buffeted on one side by terrifying cataclysms and on the othe...

Aug 17, 2016
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