Clarice Lispector sparkles under The Chandelier (New Directions). Cleo Wade assembles the affirmations in Heart Talk (Atria). Leslie Jamison breaks the addiction-lit mold with The Recovering (Little, Brown). Michael Benson tells a HAL of a good story in Space Odyssey (Simon & Schuster). James Comey demands A Higher Loyalty (Flatiron). Diplomacy is on the decline in Ronan Farrow'sWar on Peace (Norton). Jennifer Palmier! gets epistolary and empowering with Dear Madam President (Grand Central). Cherokee chiefs battle beneath John Sedgwick'sBlood Moon (Simon & Schuster). Shahriar Mandanipour's soldier is haunted by Moon Brow (Restless). Richard Flanagan'sFirst Person (Knopf) features a spectral scribe. Michelle Dean culls the clever in Sharp (Grove). Steve Israel whips out the Big Guns (Simon & Schuster). William Vollmann is in No Immediate Danger (Viking). David Gahr'sBruce Springsteen (Rizzoli) was born to run. Steven J. Zipperstein uncovers crimes of the Kishinev Pogrom (Liveright). Masha Gessen and Misha Friedman seek Stalin in Never Remember (Columbia Global Reports). Alex Wagner abstracts ancestry in Futureface (One World). Ondjaki transports us to Transparent City (Biblioasis). Asne Seierstad follows a father's pursuit of his daughters in Two Sisters (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Magdalena J. Zaborowska voyage chez James Baldwin dans Me and My House (Duke University). William Middleton has Double Vision (Knopf) for art-world avatars. Christopher Petkanas'sLoulou & Yves are a match made in Saint Laurent (St. Martin's). New York is for the very young in Iris Martin Cohen'sThe Little Clan (Park Row). Ruth Rogers, Sian Wyn Owen, Joseph Trivelli, and Rose Gray invite you to dine at the River Cafe London (Knopf). Wade in the Water (Graywolf) with the lyrical Tracy K. Smith. Rex Sorgatz explains it all in the Encyclopedia of Misinformation (Abrams Image). But Julian Barnes tells The Only Story (Knopf).

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