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In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life. By Dwight Garner Two new books use divergent styles to look at mind control, brainwashing and the ...

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“I See You’ve Called in Dead” follows a middle-aged depressive who rediscovers life’s joys, with a little help from his friends. Steve Oney’s engaging and deeply reported “On Air ...

Journalist and author Jacques Pauw has slammed Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn, authors of the controversial book, The Lost Boys of Bird Island , for sloppy police work and failing to disclose crucial ...

March 28, 2025 • Nunez's 2018 novel won the National Book Award. It's now a film, starring Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, about a woman who inherits a dog after her friend's suicide. Originally ...

In her book, "Boat Baby," publishing April 1, the NBC News chief consumer investigative correspondent details how she arrived in Oregon as an infant, grew up in California and worked her way up at ...