Those Who Are About to Die: A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
By Harry Sidebottom
Russell Crowe was good, but this book is even better.
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Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town
By Michael Edison Hayden
An oddly (and overly) personal account of tumult in West Virginia.
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The Keeper: A Novel
By Tana French
A superb, genre-defying conclusion to the author’s Cal Hooper trilogy.
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Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
By Noam Scheiber
That bachelor’s degree doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Happy Land
By Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A DC woman discovers she’s heir to a long-ago, real-life Black kingdom.
The Mesopotamian Riddle
By Joshua Hammer
An overabundance of detail hobbles what could’ve been an absorbing saga.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
Its recent awards support 10 promising authors.
