THE MAVERICK: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing, by Thomas Harding Thwarted megamergers and private-equity acquisitions, buyouts and […]
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Jennifer Weiner’s New Novel Covers Plenty of Ground
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A Dad Disappears, and His Family Cracks Open
HAPPINESS FALLS, by Angie Kim On a summer morning in 2020, Adam Parson vanishes while hiking in a suburban Virginia […]
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Newly Published, from Children’s Books to 1970s Counterculture
THE BOOK FROM FAR AWAY, by Bruce Handy. Illustrated by Julie Benbassat. (Minerva, $18.99, ages 4 to 8.) In this […]
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WHAT BOOK would author Andrew Child take to a desert island?
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He may be best known for a fictional detective haunted by the disappearance of his wife, but dognapping rather than […]
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