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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Mark O’Connell A recent must-read: A recent book I loved is Nicole Flattery’s Nothing Special. Here, she brilliantly captures the voice and the inner life of Mae, a young New Yorker working at Andy Warhol’s Factory. Flattery is such a unique and beguiling stylist, she is one of those writers whose sentences never quite wind up where you think they’re going. An unexpected joy (a book you knew nothing about): On the strength of a recommendation from a friend a couple of years back, I bought an essay collection called Firepool by the South African writer Hedley Twidle. I promptly forgot ...

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A book about the Irish killer Malcolm Macarthur is a paragon of its genre—precisely because it recognises the limitations of that genre

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