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A black and white photo of men. women and children in Berlin in the 1940s, carrying suitcases and fleeing the city on foot.

‘Stay Alive,’ About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

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Her Mother Infamously Murdered Her Father. Now, She’s Telling Her Own Story

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There’s Room for Everyone in ‘Now I Surrender,’ an Epic American Western

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A woman with a black bob haircut and dressed in black sings into a microphone, looking slightly upward

Ticket Alert: Liza Minnelli Is Coming to San Francisco

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A Riveting Graphic Novel of an Armenian Family in San Francisco

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Book covers of: Now I Surrender, by Alvaro Enrigue, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer; Days of Love and Rage, by Anand Gopal; A Far-flung Life, by M.L. Stedman; You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir, by Christina Applegate; In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man, by Tom Junod; Hooked: A Novel of Obsession, by Asako Yuzuki, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton; Under Water, by Tara Menon; Python’s Kiss: Stories, by Louise Erdrich; Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories, by Amal El-Mohtar; Son of Nobody, by Yann Martel

10 New Books in March Offer Mental Vacations

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Clockwise from top left: The Seed of the Sacred Fig, For The Sun After Long Nights, Cutting Through Rocks, It Was Just an Accident, Martyr!, and Kayhan Kalhor.

A Glimpse of Iran, Through the Eyes of its Artists and Journalists

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A Novel Tracks the Fallout of Free Love, and the Girls Who ‘Went Away’

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Naoko Takei Moore Wants You to Live a Happy Donabe Life

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