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Review: Julian Barnes’s The Only Story delivers exceptionally written heartache May 4

Review: Rachel Kushner crafts a mesmerizing, expansive narrative in The Mars Room May 4

Review: Ronan Farrow’s War on Peace doggedly examines the decline of U.S. diplomacy May 4

Review: Duncan Hannah’s Twentieth-century Boy a worthy addition to diaristic canon May 3 Updated

Review: Detailed, hilarious storytelling brings texture to Sloane Crosley’s Look Alive Out There May 3

Review: Joan Sangster’s One Hundred Years of Struggle recounts women’s suffrage movement in Canada May 3

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Review: Dimitri Nasrallah’s The Bleeds a sardonic look at global affairs May 3

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Review: Djamila Ibrahim’s story collection Things Are Good Now explores themes of home and belonging May 3

Review: In Fascism, Madeleine Albright draws on her own experience with autocrats April 28

Review: Shaun Walker’s The Long Hangover insightfully explores Russia’s national mythology April 26

Review: Curtis Sittenfeld will gently push you to the existential precipice with You Think It, I’ll Say It April 26

Review: Cherise Wolas’s The Resurrection of Joan Ashby and life's many uncomfortable, fascinating truths April 19

Review: Alice Hoffman’s The Rules of Magic is a truly fantastical escape April 19

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In a Christian world dominated by Trump, what is Marilynne Robinson doing here? April 19 Updated

Review: Michelle McNamara’s posthumous masterpiece I’ll Be Gone in the Dark April 19

Review: Emily Carroll brings gorgeous, gruesome style to Anderson’s Speak: The Graphic Novel April 19

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Review: Andrew Morton’s Meghan: A Hollywood Princess portrays Markle as ‘a networker to her fingertips’ April 18

Review: Joe Ide’s Righteous is a worthy sequel to his thriller IQ April 17

Review: Mel McGrath’s Give Me The Child considers a pint-sized psychopath April 17

Review: A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo starts as satire, but stands on its own as a children’s book April 13

Review: Carrianne Leung’s That Time I Loved You is a memorable, bewitching read April 12

Review: Maureen Jennings’s Let Darkness Bury the Dead is one of the best Murdoch mysteries yet April 10

Review: Robert Harris’s Munich turns to history for his latest page-turner April 10

Review: Michelle Berry’s The Prisoner and the Chaplain lingers on the moments before execution April 10

Review: Lynn Gehl’s Claiming Anishinaabe finds a new paradigm of Indigenous identity April 10

Review: Jo Nesbo’s take on Macbeth is superb April 5 Updated

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Review: Uzodinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil falls short of issues it tries to challenge April 5

Review: Michelle Dean’s Sharp and Elizabeth Renzetti’s Shrewed shine light on defiant women April 5

Review: Robert Wuthnow looks at what’s really fuelling rage in Trump’s rural America April 4 Updated

Review: Hadley Dyer’s Here So Far Away is poetic realism at its finest April 2

Review: Jen Wang’s The Prince and the Dressmaker has a jaw-dropping ending April 2

Review: Rachel Hartman’s Tess of the Road is awe-inspiring and relatable April 2

Review: Nicola Lagioia’s Ferocity feels like Florida noir transplanted to Italy March 29

Review: Naivo’s Beyond the Rice Fields captures the personal amid profound social change March 29

Review: Emily Anglin’s The Third Person is full of unexpected turns March 29

Review: Caitlin Macy’s Mrs. delves into rarefied world of Upper East Side March 29