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Khaled Hosseini

Books

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This novelist has already had two international runaway hits: The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. He continues to examine intimate ties among loved ones in the new And the Mountains Echoed, dropping in on cities around the world to tell the...

George Packer in conversation with Brooke Gladstone

Books

The New Yorker writer and author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq examines the crumbling foundation of the American Century in his new title, The Unwinding. The journalist talks about the division between rich and poor, the current state of the...

Philipp Meyer

Fiction

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Where Meyer's lauded 2009 debut, American Rust, surveyed the violence of American life in a postindustrial age, his new title, The Son, looks back to the 19th and 20th centuries. The dark, epic tale revolves around generations of Texans who experience...

Colum McCann

Fiction

• Critics' pick

Though he published his first story collection in 1994, National Book Award–winning Irish novelist Colum McCann catapulted into American readers' esteem with the kaleidoscopic Let the Great World Spin (2009). His follow-up, TransAtlantic, spans even more...

Ralph Nader

Nonfiction

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One of the few people we can tolerate titling a collection of his columns Told You So is consumer advocate and occasional politician Ralph Nader. The man tirelessly works to encourage individual responsibility, while still looking to shake up the system...