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New Munro collection contains masterful prose

Family Furnishings (Alfred A. Knopf), by Alice Munro A year after Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature and was cited for her mastery of the modern short story, her publi...

Hockney biographer publishes second volume on artist’s remarkable life

David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012 (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), by Christopher Simon Sykes More than halfway through the second volume of his vivid, intimate biography of Briti...

Lahr pens brilliant new biography of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.), by John Lahr When “The Glass Menagerie” opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matria...

Review: Bezmozgis novel explores loyalty, betrayal

The Betrayers (Little, Brown and Co.), by David Bezmozgis The betrayals come thick and fast in David Bezmozgis’ aptly titled and beautifully written second novel, The Betrayers. T...

Book offers a chorus of women on women’s clothing

Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press), by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 Others In 1995 an advertising executive named Ilene Beckerman narrated her life story thr...

A history of a city and its liberal ideals

Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City (Doubleday), by Russell Shorto No guide to Amsterdam is complete without a mention of tulips, canals and legalized pot and pr...

Novel offers vision of hunting trip gone awry

Goat Mountain (Harper), by David Vann Gun owners like to say they teach their children to never point a loaded weapon at another person. But what if a father let his 11-year-old ...