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Article snippet: Fall fiction is here and ready to entertain you, as new novels by Nicole Krauss, Salman Rushdie and Nathan Englander can attest. In nonfiction, enhance your viewing of Ken Burns’s “Vietnam War” with James Reston Jr.’s “A Rift in the Earth,” the story of the controversy over Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial. Two illuminating memoirs — one by a candidate, one by a journalist — will plunge you back into the thick of the 2016 election, but if that history is still a little too close for comfort, you can always take refuge in Scaachi Koul’s irreverent essay collection, “One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter.” Radhika JonesEditorial Director, Books WHAT HAPPENED, by Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Simon & Schuster, $30.) Hillary Clinton tells the story of what it was like to run for president of the United States as the female nominee of a major party, a first in American history. “It is a post-mortem,” our critic Jennifer Senior writes of Clinton’s memoir, “in which she is both coroner and corpse. It is also a “candid and blackly funny account of her mood in the direct aftermath of losing to Donald J. Trump,” a “feminist manifesto” and a “score-settling jubilee.” LINER NOTES: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things, by Loudon Wainwright III. (Blue Rider Press, $27.) The folk singer Loudon Wainwright III has written some excellent songs, and his musical family tree has many branches. He was marri... Link to the full article to read more