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Laurent Mauvignier. Zadie Smith. Megan Nolan. These authors—and more—make our top 10 list for the year

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Reviews of the year’s notable new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

“What’s Good,” by Daniel Levin Becker, is a wide-ranging examination of hip-hop and its language games.

Leapfrog: Connecticut hospitals graded from best to worst on safety Andrew DaRosa FacebookTwitterEmail In its biannual report, the Leapfrog Group has graded 22 of Connecticuts hospitals based on safety. The nonprofit, which monitors and reports hospital safety data, grades hospital safety based on a number of factors, including the number of infections and the types of practices in place to prevent errors. The Leapfrog Group looks at the data available from each hospital, and determines how wel...