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Even rabid readers need a little direction sometimes, and Time Out is happy to help with as many book reviews of intriguing, notable fiction and nonfiction as we can muster. Peruse our library for Time Out New York critics' takes on the good and bad in novels, short stories, poetry, graphic works and more.

Find Me: A Novel

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Find Me: A Novel
Find Me: A Novel
"What is memory but the telling of a story?" This could easily be the epigraph for Laura van den Berg’s debut novel but is, instead, a line found in her own book.
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10:04 by Ben Lerner

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10:04 by Ben Lerner
10:04 by Ben Lerner
One of contemporary literature’s most stylistically dexterous writers shines in this unique meta-fiction
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The Skin by Curzio Malaparte

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The Skin by Curzio Malaparte
The Skin by Curzio Malaparte
Though this volume doesn't quite measure up to this fascinating fascist's earlier novel, Kaputt, its look at a tattered, 1943 Italy is difficult but rewarding.
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Elsewhere by Richard Russo

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Elsewhere by Richard Russo
Elsewhere by Richard Russo
This emotionally draining memoir reflects the author's profound love and anger for a mother who imposed herself on his life and art. Read the full review

  

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Astray by Emma Donoghue

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Astray by Emma Donoghue
Astray by Emma Donoghue
These stories, which take their cues from historical events and extant documents, fare best when Donoghue lets her imagination wander.
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Dear Life by Alice Munro

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Dear Life by Alice Munro
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Whether poets at cocktail parties or lovers in TB wards, Munro finds a perfect marriage of character and setting in this evocative collection of short stories.
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Magnificence by Lydia Millet

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Magnificence by Lydia Millet
Magnificence by Lydia Millet
This novel of a protagonist's meditations among taxidermied creatures is a fair-to-middling installment in a near-magnificent trilogy.
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