This Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s latest collection continues to push boundaries, and includes some of the best and most ingenious poems of her career.
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Nonfiction: Anthony Doerr Reviews a New Book on Time Travel
James Gleick’s “Time Travel: A History” is a fascinating mash-up of philosophy, literary criticism, physics and cultural observation.
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Nonfiction: Why Do We Love to Curse So Much?
“What the F” and “In Praise of Profanity” examine the linguistics, neurology, sociology — and just plain fun — of cursing.
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Newly Released: Books by Melanie Finn, Alexandra Kleeman, Robert Seethaler and Margot Livesey
One novel follows a grieving woman in Africa and Switzerland; another offers alienation in experimental tales; a third covers a life; and a fourth dissects a marriage.
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Robert Gottlieb: Avid Reader, Reluctant Writer
Mr. Gottlieb has been the editorial midwife to works by writers like Toni Morrison, Joseph Heller and Robert Caro. In his new memoir, he writes about the editing life.
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