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Mythili Rao is a journalist and book critic in New York. Follow her @mythilirao.
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This Week’s Hot Reads: February 9, 2015
Hot ReadsUnlocking the Scandinavian psyche, fictional renderings of real life women, and interpersonal drama in Greece.

This Week’s Hot Reads
New & NotableThis week, from murder in Mississippi to the pawn shops of Appalachia.

This Week’s Hot Reads: May 26, 2014
In BriefThis week, from lobster fishermen and meth dealers off the Maine Coast to the world’s largest statue of Stalin.

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Hot ReadsThis week, from friendship with a phony (and murderous) Rockefeller to fortune-seeking husband-hunters in the British Raj.

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HistoriesThis week, from a preacher-turned-novelist’s meditations on death to the power struggles and engineering breakthroughs that lead to America’s first subway.

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IN THE FAMILYThis week, from the 1964 World’s Fair to people on the edge to saving the world.

The Year's Best Hot Reads
Don't MissFrom a collection of Iranian short stories to a tale of a self-style prophet's post-frontier standoff in Alaska, here are the books you might have missed in 2013.

This Week’s Hot Reads
IN THE FAMILYThis week, from the short fiction of an overlooked American master to the family history of three generations of real-life adventurers.

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LostThis week, from stories about the streets of Tehran to the quest to bring a lost World War II pilot home.

Champion of the Stifled
Chinelo OkparantaThe Nigerian-born Chinelo Okparanta’s debut collection introduces the world to a defender of young women who are oppressed and silenced.
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