Set in a fictionalized residential school, Joan Crate’s novel Black Apple folds together faith, tenacity and human fallibility.

Book review: Black Apple

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Elizabeth Strout again turns her keen eye to this tense, tangled relationship in her latest, My Name is Lucy Barton.

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Garth Risk Hallberg’s showstopper (and doorstopper) City on Fire conjures a gritty New York City on the brink of destruction

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In their joint memoir, All Out, anchorman Kevin Newman and his son, Alex, challenge each other’s ideas of what makes a man.

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Giller-nominated writer Marina Endicott's newest book combines artistic personalities and codependent relationships to dramatic effect.

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