9 New Books We Recommend This Week | Book Review - New York Times

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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times by Gregory Cowles, Senior Editor, Books. 
 

It’s been an active week, politically speaking — they all are, these days — and with the Fourth of July around the corner, politics are front and center in our recommended titles. From Terrance Hayes, there’s a poetry collection sparked by Donald Trump’s election; from Ben Rhodes, a memoir of his time as a key adviser in the Obama White House; and from Stephen Greenblatt, a pointed consideration of the political leaders in Shakespeare’s plays that might call to mind, reassuringly or not, the opening lines of Sonnet 59: “If there be nothing new, but that which is / Hath been before …”
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