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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.

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You should read as many of them as possible.

See his picks fromlast month.

(A jet stream shift has ironically left the island colder, too.)

The Wall, by John Lanchester (WW Norton, March 5)

Lanchesters eclectic background lends his fiction substance, wit, and urgency.

Oyeyemi is this generations torchbearer for a growing subgenre of revisionist fairy tales.

All stories should have this much to say about resilience, politics, memory, and love.

Gingerbread, by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead, March 5)

(Readour interview with her here.)

In his fifth story collection, Means eases up on the violence and shock to score more intimate gut-punches.

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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, by Alex Kotlowitz (Doubleday, March 5)

Instructions for a Funeral, by David Means (FSG, March 5)

Look How Happy I’m Making You, by Polly Rosenwaike (Doubleday, March 19)

The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell

The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami (Pantheon, March 26)