Newsletter #407
April 9, 2026
3 books featured in this issue

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
by Patrick Radden Keefe
NEW TRUE
Keefe's previous bestsellers—Say Nothing, which told the story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland through a single murder, and Empire of Pain, which traced much of the opioid epidemic to the Sackler... (Tom)

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by Ben Lerner
NEW MADE-UP
On the face of it, Lerner's fourth novel seems, after his big, and more chewily traditional, third novel, The Topeka School, to be a return to the more elliptical style of his first two, Leaving the A... (Tom)

Underfoot in Show Business
by Helene Hanff
NEW TRUE
I'm thrilled that one of my favorite books, Underfoot in Show Business, is back in print, bringing Helene Hanff's scrappy memoir to a new audience. Before she wrote 84, Charing Cross Road, Hanff was a... (Haley)
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