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New in Paperback: ‘Vietnam’ and ‘Upstream’

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VIETNAM: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975, by Max Hastings. (Harper Perennial, $22.99.) Hastings, a British journalist and military historian who reported

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There’s a funny moment in Kevin Wilson’s new novel, “Nothing to See Here” — it’s one of two novels we

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THE FIRE IS UPON US James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in AmericaBy Nicholas Buccola

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If this is a Martin Cruz Smith mystery, we must be in Moscow, maybe in Gorky Park. But in a

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Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o is now a songwriter and singer! The Us star, 36, co-wrote and performs the new song,

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The last book in A Song of Ice and Fire was released in 2011 and we still don’t have The

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Speaking in a gravelly Northern Irish accent a million miles away from her normal dulcet tones, Dame Judi already has

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THE LOST ART OF SCRIPTURERescuing the Sacred TextsBy Karen Armstrong In the Bible, St. Paul declares: “I do not permit

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On this Remembrance Sunday, we remember the stories of women including Noor Inayat Khan and Martha Gellhorn. The First and

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Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, as well as a comedian and filmmaker. This is an