“She’s such a compassionate describer of her characters with all their flaws,” says the prolific translator, most recently of Júlio Dinis’s “An English Family” and…
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Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies
AMORALMANA True Story and Other LiesBy Derek DelGaudio Lying is ubiquitous. Why should it be otherwise? There are far more reasons to lie than to…
Latina Girls Dreaming
LATINITASCelebrating 40 Big DreamersBy Juliet Menéndez As a second-generation Dominican child growing up in Harlem, I was steeped in my culture at home. From mangu…
Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival
ASSUME NOTHINGA Story of Intimate ViolenceBy Tanya Selvaratnam CONSENTA MemoirBy Vanessa Springora Even in our chatty, confessional culture, certain subjects are too unwieldly, too difficult,…
True Crime Gets Its Close-Up
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice By Ellen McGarrahan368 pp. Random House. $28. “I was totally…
John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities?
CALHOUNAmerican HereticBy Robert Elder Coming so soon after a neoconfederate mob rampaged through the Capitol, a respectful biography of the ideological father of the Confederacy…
The Deaths of Teenage Cousins in a Village in India Have Global Ramifications
THE GOOD GIRLSAn Ordinary KillingBy Sonia Faleiro In 2012, a gang of men set upon and horrifically raped a female student on a bus in…
Ashley Audrain’s Best Seller Goes to a Place Most Parents Have Never Gone Before
A BOOK IN THE OVEN If you are a new parent with a few hours of child care on your hands, you may be inclined…
This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice
The way to read Frederick Seidel’s “Selected Poems” is to remove the dust jacket, light a match and torch it. It’s not that the jacket…
Get to Know Your Larynx. Then Make Some Noise.
THIS IS THE VOICEBy John Colapinto As a genre, body part nonfiction would seem to have run its course. We have natural histories of the…