4 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.
 

Last week we offered you 12 new books to read — ambitious, I know, even for people who love books the way we do. So consider this the hangover edition, or the self-care edition, or what have you: four titles on an array of subjects, from historical fiction out of Italy (“The Novel of Ferrara”) to essays about Asian-American identity and other topics (“The Souls of Yellow Folk”) to the fraught evolution of particularly American catchphrases (“Behold, America”) to the book you were probably going to buy anyway, if only to keep up with your neighbors (Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming”). If you have time left over, you can turn back to last week’s recommendations for a little hair of the dog.
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Source: New York Time