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Exposés of China’s Elite a Big Lure in Hong Kong
Visitors from mainland China turn to Hong Kong bookstores for forbidden delights: shelves of scandal-packed exposés about their Communist Party masters.
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Bookshelf: Books on New York History and Sweet-Tooth Outlets
In “City of Ambition,” Mason B. Williams explores what drove a patrician Democrat and a street-smart Republican to revive New York City from the Great Depression.
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Noted: Making a Word Meme
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Essay: Beautiful Creatures
Charles Kingsley’s 150-year-old morality fable reflects the contradictory impulses of the Victorian era.
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‘The Humanity Project,’ by Jean Thompson
At the center of the plot lines in Jean Thompson’s novel is a philanthropist who wants to bribe people into virtue.
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Inside the List
“Happy, Happy, Happy” by Phil Robertson is No. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction list — the second best seller spawned by the reality show “Duck Dynasty.”
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‘To Save Everything, Click Here,’ by Evgeny Morozov
The digital-age transparency we’ve grown accustomed to may threaten the spirit of democracy, Evgeny Morozov warns.
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‘The Letters of William Gaddis’
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‘All the Great Prizes,’ by John Taliaferro
From the birth of the Republican Party to the Spanish-American War, John Hay was a seminal 19th-century figure.
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Audiobooks: When Words Sing
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‘Woke Up Lonely,’ by Fiona Maazel
Fiona Maazel’s antic new novel examines the contradictory but concurrent urges for solitude and intimacy.
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