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Our columnist on the month’s best new books.

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Book Review: ‘Albert Sabin,’ by Karen Torghele

The first serious biography of Albert Sabin recounts the pivotal role he played in the development of a polio vaccine.

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Book Review: ‘Albert Sabin,’ by Karen Torghele

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Book Review: ‘Furious Violet,’ by Sarai Walker

Sarai Walker’s “Furious Violet” is a psychological thriller about the kind of woman the genre — and the world — typically overlooks.

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Book Review: ‘Furious Violet,’ by Sarai Walker

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Charles Gaines, Whose ‘Pumping Iron’ Sparked Schwarzenegger’s Career, Dies at 84

An author and sportsman, he helped create the game of paintball and wrote the book and movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name.

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Charles Gaines, Whose ‘Pumping Iron’ Sparked Schwarzenegger’s Career, Dies at 84

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Book Review: ‘The Renoir Girls,’ by Catherine Ostler

In “The Renoir Girls,” the English historian Catherine Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the Cahen d’Anvers family.

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Book Review: ‘The Renoir Girls,’ by Catherine Ostler

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Life of Alan Turing Emerges in Richer Detail From Short Story

A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.

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Life of Alan Turing Emerges in Richer Detail From Short Story