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Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Mark Evans is taking me on a personally guided tour through the four great genres of American music. Filled with anecdotes and augmented by over 350 photographs.

Where does Arundhati Roy, a Booker-prizewinning author and activist, get her fiercely independent streak? The clue is in the title.

Mark Evans is taking me on a personally guided tour through the four great genres of American music. Filled with anecdotes ...

The Revolutionary Life and Selected Writings of WA DomingoWA Domingo (Author), Peter Hulme (Editor), Leslie James (Editor) Pluto Press, £24.99WILFRED ADOLPHUS DOMINGO (1889-1968) — or most commonly WA ...

Samuel West , born on June 19, 1966 in Hammersmith, London, England, is a British film, television, radio, theatre actor and theatre director. Samuel Alexander Joseph West belongs to a long line of ...