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3 more 2010 novels that you don't want to miss

Two private investigators are forced to deal with the aftermath of a case that has haunted them for more than a decade, Herman Melville sets sail, and an Israeli mother goes for a very long walk in this month’s roundup of new fiction.

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Prison: civilization's 'dark flower'

We jail people when we have despaired of any other way of dealing with their abhorrent behavior. But the vast majority will one day re-enter civilized society. Does prison make it more or less likely they will fit in?
Reader recommendation: Hawthorne, A Life

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3 more 2010 novels that you don't want to miss

Two private investigators are forced to deal with the aftermath of a case that has haunted them for more than a decade, Herman Melville sets sail, and an Israeli mother goes for a very long walk in this month’s roundup of new fiction.
Desperately seeking Austen
Chapter & Verse
The painful life of a writer?
Chapter & Verse
'The book was better': Movies that didn't measure up
The Heretic's Daughter

A debut novel about the Salem witch trials draws on the author's own ancestry.
White Heat

The deep and distant friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Bengalis replanted in American soil

Jhumpa Lahiri offers a new collection of short stories
Bengalis replanted in American soil

Jhumpa Lahiri offers a new collection of short stories.