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Trial by Fire (2018)

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The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing...

Woman Walks Ahead (2017)

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Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of...

Creation (2009)

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Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin...

The Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America, 1954 - 1983

Bernard Diederich

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*This major new biography finally and fully illuminates a pivotal episode in Greene's life and...

The Bronte Myth

Lucasta Miller

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Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. These range...

C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet

Alister McGrath

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The recent Narnia films have inspired a resurgence of interest in C. S. Lewis, the Oxford academic,...

Cnut the Great

Timothy Bolton

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A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon...

Tom of Finland (2017)

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Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving...

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Sep 29, 2017

What better season than autumn to savour two books about culinary icons — a memoir by Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse, and a biography of Patience Gray, a locavore long before the word became popular.

And a book about an unsung theory of Darwin’s seeks to explain beauty as an evolutionary function.

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New York Times Top Books This Week 28/09

Nonfiction recommendations this week will set you off on a journey, whether retracing the steps of the “Odyssey” with the memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn, or the senior-citizen workampers of “Nomadland.”