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Wally Lamb’s latest protagonist is a messy dad — and may be too realistically flawed

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Book Review The River Is Waiting By Wally LambMarysue Rucci Books: 480 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Wally Lamb’s first novel in nine years, “The River Is Waiting,” opens with a devastating scene in which a troubled but devoted … Read more

The simple life beckons in ‘The Colony.’ Enlightenment is not forthcoming

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Burnout’s nothing new. Just ask Henry David Thoreau, who was lamenting in 1854 that our lives are being “frittered away by detail.” The smartphone may then have been unimaginable — Alexander Graham Bell was barely out of infancy —yet the impulse to reach for it was already there. “Hardly a man takes a half hour’s … Read more