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Books of The Times: How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite
In “Vida,” Patricia Engel’s world is caught between Colombia and the United States, and truly at home in neither.
 
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Beach Reads Finished, It’s Time for the Big Books
Publishing’s fall schedule includes books by Bob Woodward, Keith Richards, George W. Bush and Jon Stewart.
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Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach
The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s.
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Cultural Studies: Are You Reading What He’s Reading?
Talk of an “Obama bump” for authors comes at a moment when the flavor of public conversation around books has gone from genteel Earl Grey to Tea Party red.
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Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man’s Bucolic Idyll
Existential concepts like authenticity and selfhood, and people’s ability or inability to apprehend reality, lie at the heart of Tom McCarthy’s disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel.
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