17 Best Books to Read This Spring
Suspicious strangers, crafty criminals and tender twosomes.
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Autumn
By Ali Smith
272 pages;
Pantheon
The first in a proposed quartet, Smith's novel plays an intimate melody against a broader dissonance, probing the friendship between an art historian and an aging songwriter as they grapple with personal predicaments and a perilous world.
— Hamilton Cain
Published 02/11/2017