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Article snippet: That tremor you felt last week was the dropping of a new John Green novel, “Turtles All the Way Down,” his first since “The Fault in Our Stars” and a seismic event not just in young people’s literature but in all people’s literature. The other tremor you felt was the dropping of a new Ron Chernow biography, “Grant,” the story of the general turned president tasked with the ultimate political challenge, uniting a post-civil-war society. We recommend them both — just don’t drop Chernow’s actual book; at 1,074 pages, it might break something. Radhika JonesEditorial Director, Books THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ELIZABETH HARDWICK, Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney. (New York Review Books, $19.95.) “To move one’s way through Hardwick’s essays is to bump into brightness on nearly every page,” writes our critic Dwight Garner about this volume of writings by one of the co-founders of the New York Review of Books and a landmark American critic. Hardwick, who died in 2007, “had fresh eyes, quick wits, good feelers and was murderously well-read.” TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN, by John Green. (Dutton, $19.99.) Green’s new novel, his first since the mega-best-selling “The Fault in Our Stars,” is “by far his most difficult to read,” writes our critic Jennifer Senior. “It’s also his most astonishing.” The story of Aza, a 16-year-old who suffers from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, delves into familiar Green themes of love and suffering, working toward an endi... Link to the full article to read more