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A while ago I found myself attempting to slog through a modern biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was slow going.

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Selected by Amy Reading, the author, most recently, of “The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker.” ...

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Formed by New Orleans expatriates in Los Angeles in the 1990s, the Drifters’ multiple singers and songwriters crafted four ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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