‘Townie: A Memoir’
By ANDRE DUBUS III
Reviewed by DARCEY STEINKE
Andre Dubus III recalls his upbringing in a Massachusetts mill town, and the tormentors he and his siblings had to fight through.
This crushing critique of the war in Afghanistan goes a long way toward explaining why America’s embrace of counterinsurgency strategy has not delivered its promised success.
Andre Dubus III recalls his upbringing in a Massachusetts mill town, and the tormentors he and his siblings had to fight through.
The letters of the travel writer Bruce Chatwin provide sharp renderings of misadventure and mores.
As this first novel’s 14-year-old narrator looks on, her affluent suburban family disintegrates.
A historian of African-American entertainment seeks to rehabilitate the image of the pioneering actress and singer Ethel Waters.
A young girl is swept up by the intrigue of the sultan’s court in this novel of the late Ottoman Empire.
The peripatetic hero of Teju Cole’s indelible novel reflects on his adopted New York, the Africa of his youth, today’s America and a Europe wary of its future.
The serial killer Gretchen Lowell is locked up, but a new threat confounds Detective Archie Sheridan in Chelsea Cain’s new thriller.
With Saudi Arabia reeling after a series of terrorist attacks, Alex Berenson’s reluctant hero is the kingdom’s only hope.
In monologues set in Budapest, Rome and New York, Sandor Marai’s characters explore a decades-old love triangle.
All across this deeply felt novel’s world, human pain has been made literally visible.
Parag Khanna offers a chaotic view of power in the 21st century.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s novel is told in two voices, a generation and the distance from Tunisia to Sweden separating them.
Susan Jacoby challenges the optimistic marketing that has made old age seem pleasant and carefree.
Helen Castor examines the lives of four plucky royal consorts who struggled over the throne of England.
In Solomon Volkov’s telling, the Romanovs nurtured and sustained Russia’s great creative minds.
A history of how three African-American families of mixed ancestry stopped being black.
A newly annotated edition of “The Campaigns of Alexander,” by the second-century Greek historian Arrian.
Two centuries ago, doctors blamed reading for all manner of bodily ills. One day, my back suddenly agreed.
Mystery novels by Andrew Taylor, Keigo Higashino, Mo Hayder and Liza Marklund.
Featuring Bing West on the war in Afghanistan; and David Hajdu on the life of Ethel Waters.
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Readers of Darcey Steinke’s memoir, “Easter Everywhere,” know that when she was growing up in Roanoke, Va., in the 1970s, she was attracted to all kinds of trouble.
In the best-selling novel “A Discovery of Witches,” the historian Deborah Harkness trades scholarship for steamy paranormal romance.
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