BOOKS OF THE TIMES

He's Hard as Nails, Hard to Nail Down, Too By JANET MASLIN "The Loudest Voice in the Room" is Gabriel Sherman's biography of Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News.

Hearing Genuine Voices of Midcentury Fiction By WILLIAM GRIMES A half-century ago, Calliope Records issued recordings by John Updike, Philip Roth and others. Those readings have been reissued, allowing listeners to time-travel back to a ripe moment in American fiction.

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