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| This isn’t the memoir you might expect from the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist: Flea doesn’t offer a retrospective of the band’s trajectory and fame, focusing instead on everything leading up to their rise. His tumultuous friendship with Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the band, forms the emotional core of the book, but he also evokes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and ’80s, and the creative influences that shaped him. | This isn’t the memoir you might expect from the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist: Flea doesn’t offer a retrospective of the band’s trajectory and fame, focusing instead on everything leading up to their rise. His tumultuous friendship with Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the band, forms the emotional core of the book, but he also evokes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and ’80s, and the creative influences that shaped him. |
| [ Read our profile of Flea. ] | |
| Davis is perhaps best known as a short-story writer and translator, but this collection, the first of two planned volumes, brings together an assortment of her criticism, lectures and essays. Above all, this is a book that celebrates her love of writing and writers, including Gustave Flaubert, John Ashbery and Lucia Berlin. | Davis is perhaps best known as a short-story writer and translator, but this collection, the first of two planned volumes, brings together an assortment of her criticism, lectures and essays. Above all, this is a book that celebrates her love of writing and writers, including Gustave Flaubert, John Ashbery and Lucia Berlin. |
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| In her best-selling 2012 memoir, “Brain on Fire,” Cahalan wrote about a rare disorder she suffered from that is, medically speaking, a “great pretender,” one that mimics the symptoms of an unrelated condition. Now, she investigates a landmark 1970s study about psychiatry in which “healthy” participants went undercover in asylums, and which shaped how we treat and talk about mental illness today. | In her best-selling 2012 memoir, “Brain on Fire,” Cahalan wrote about a rare disorder she suffered from that is, medically speaking, a “great pretender,” one that mimics the symptoms of an unrelated condition. Now, she investigates a landmark 1970s study about psychiatry in which “healthy” participants went undercover in asylums, and which shaped how we treat and talk about mental illness today. |
| [ Read our profile of Cahalan. ] | [ Read our profile of Cahalan. ] |
| Machado, whose debut short-story collection, “Her Body and Other Parties,” was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2017, has written a memoir that describes the emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of the woman she loved. | Machado, whose debut short-story collection, “Her Body and Other Parties,” was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2017, has written a memoir that describes the emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of the woman she loved. |
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| Armstrong, an acclaimed religion scholar, uses a wide lens in her latest book, focusing on the role of sacred texts, or scripture, across a variety of faiths. She traces their changing cultural importance over time and shows that the way in which fundamentalists have embraced literal interpretations of scripture is a recent phenomenon. | Armstrong, an acclaimed religion scholar, uses a wide lens in her latest book, focusing on the role of sacred texts, or scripture, across a variety of faiths. She traces their changing cultural importance over time and shows that the way in which fundamentalists have embraced literal interpretations of scripture is a recent phenomenon. |
| It’s the mid-1950s when Muriel and Lee, two newlyweds, arrive in San Diego from Kansas. Muriel, longing for home, is beckoned by the local racetrack. Once her brother-in-law appears, the novel gains momentum, becoming both a story of transgressive love and one that evokes the mythology of the American West. | It’s the mid-1950s when Muriel and Lee, two newlyweds, arrive in San Diego from Kansas. Muriel, longing for home, is beckoned by the local racetrack. Once her brother-in-law appears, the novel gains momentum, becoming both a story of transgressive love and one that evokes the mythology of the American West. |
| [ Read our review. ] | |
| Bair was a young journalist with a brand-new Ph.D. when she arrived in Paris in the 1970s and persuaded Beckett to let her write his biography. (He was her first subject, and she hadn’t even read a biography before embarking on the endeavor, which ultimately won the National Book Award.) Later, Bair trained her eye on Beauvoir in a thorny, yearslong project. This memoir, brimming with delightful literary trivia, is a study in how she developed into a top-notch biographer. | Bair was a young journalist with a brand-new Ph.D. when she arrived in Paris in the 1970s and persuaded Beckett to let her write his biography. (He was her first subject, and she hadn’t even read a biography before embarking on the endeavor, which ultimately won the National Book Award.) Later, Bair trained her eye on Beauvoir in a thorny, yearslong project. This memoir, brimming with delightful literary trivia, is a study in how she developed into a top-notch biographer. |
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| The Pulitzer Prize-winning author (“God: A Biography”) delves into the shifting role of faith, beginning with early Christianity. How did religion become a distinct activity, disentangled from ethnicity or culture, and how did Christianity come to have such a profound influence on Western thought? | The Pulitzer Prize-winning author (“God: A Biography”) delves into the shifting role of faith, beginning with early Christianity. How did religion become a distinct activity, disentangled from ethnicity or culture, and how did Christianity come to have such a profound influence on Western thought? |
| Sexton’s debut novel, “A Kind of Freedom,” longlisted for the National Book Award, centered on the hopes, dreams and fears of a black family in New Orleans. Her new novel, also set in the South, focuses on two black mothers, their uneasy friendships with white women and the dangers that imperil their families. | Sexton’s debut novel, “A Kind of Freedom,” longlisted for the National Book Award, centered on the hopes, dreams and fears of a black family in New Orleans. Her new novel, also set in the South, focuses on two black mothers, their uneasy friendships with white women and the dangers that imperil their families. |
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| Dissatisfied with his life — battling antagonistic feelings toward his younger girlfriend, feeling professionally stalled and relying on a cocktail of medications — the narrator, Florent-Claude, returns to Normandy, a place where he remembers experiencing true happiness. He instead finds a countryside decimated by what he sees as the ruinous effects of globalization, which only stokes his middle-aged anger. Houellebecq’s writing proves again to be timely and even prescient, capturing the roiling unrest among much of France’s middle class. | Dissatisfied with his life — battling antagonistic feelings toward his younger girlfriend, feeling professionally stalled and relying on a cocktail of medications — the narrator, Florent-Claude, returns to Normandy, a place where he remembers experiencing true happiness. He instead finds a countryside decimated by what he sees as the ruinous effects of globalization, which only stokes his middle-aged anger. Houellebecq’s writing proves again to be timely and even prescient, capturing the roiling unrest among much of France’s middle class. |
| Morgenstern’s 2011 novel, “The Night Circus,” was a runaway hit, and told the love story of two competing magicians. In “The Starless Sea,” the protagonist, Zachary, is unnerved to discover a story from his own childhood in a mysterious book, and sets out on a quest to save an underground, literary realm. | Morgenstern’s 2011 novel, “The Night Circus,” was a runaway hit, and told the love story of two competing magicians. In “The Starless Sea,” the protagonist, Zachary, is unnerved to discover a story from his own childhood in a mysterious book, and sets out on a quest to save an underground, literary realm. |
| [ Read our review. ] | [ Read our review. ] |
| This book, a look at the shifting rules that have governed design the past 100 years, exposes what was meant, in a sense, to be a largely invisible principle: that the machines and technology we use should be created to intuit humans’ needs. The authors are well positioned to write about the topic; Kuang is a former journalist and user experience designer, and Fabricant co-founded a design firm. | This book, a look at the shifting rules that have governed design the past 100 years, exposes what was meant, in a sense, to be a largely invisible principle: that the machines and technology we use should be created to intuit humans’ needs. The authors are well positioned to write about the topic; Kuang is a former journalist and user experience designer, and Fabricant co-founded a design firm. |
| Anonymous — the unnamed White House staffer who published an essay in The Times last year detailing the disarray in the President Trump’s administration — has written a tell-all. | Anonymous — the unnamed White House staffer who published an essay in The Times last year detailing the disarray in the President Trump’s administration — has written a tell-all. |