‘The Cause’ Review: Revolutionary Answers

The participants in America’s struggle for independence had a wide range of ideas about why they were fighting. Review by Kathleen DuVal

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‘The Sleeping Beauties’ Review: Illness Beyond Medicine

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‘The Cause’ Review: Revolutionary Answers

The participants in America’s struggle for independence had a wide range of ideas about why they were fighting. Review by Kathleen DuVal

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‘The Sleeping Beauties’ Review: Illness Beyond Medicine

A neurologist catalogs cases of mysterious maladies that baffle conventional diagnosis. Review by Brandy Schillace

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‘Rizzio’ Review: Murder at Holyrood Palace

Scots crime novelist Denise Mina takes on a 16th-century murder that changed history. Review by Tom Nolan

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’Hurts So Good’ Review: Pain on the Brain

Understanding the chemistry, and the culture, behind the pursuit of physical suffering. Review by Sam Kean

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Fiction: Laurent Binet’s ‘Civilizations’ Review

Plus Rabih Alameddine’s ‘The Wrong End of the Telescope’ and Jon McGregor’s ‘Lean Fall Stand.’ Review by Sam Sacks

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’In Kiltumper’ Review: A Garden Grows in Ireland

An 18th-century garden is a fragile, endangered fragment of the past—and a solace in the present. Review by Dominique Browning

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’Making Nice’ Review: Calling the Tune

Ferdinand Mount’s novel takes aim at the world of political con artists. Review by Katherine A. Powers

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Science Fiction: Sandman Slim Returns in ‘King Bullet’

In Richard Kadrey’s ‘King Bullet,’ a supernatural virus threatens Los Angeles. Review by Tom Shippey

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Children’s Books: ‘For Every Little Thing’ Review

Plus ‘When I Am Bigger,’ ‘Moose’s Book Bus’ and ‘The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess.’ Review by Meghan Cox Gurdon

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Five Best: True Crime Stories

Selected by Atticus Lish, the author, most recently, of the novel ‘The War for Gloria.’

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