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May 08, 2024
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In "Free and Equal," he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
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May 08, 2024
In "The Birds That Audubon Missed," Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
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May 08, 2024
New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.
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May 07, 2024
Born in England and raised Jewish, she became agnostic, writing books about her own lack of faith, the prophet Muhammad and her time as a car columnist.
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May 07, 2024
The Oscar-winning actor will star as an A.I.-curious author in "McNeal," starting performances in September at Lincoln Center Theater.
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May 07, 2024
News stories have chronicled the basketball star's detention in a Russian prison. Here's her version.
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May 07, 2024
Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in "Long Island," Colm Tóibín's sequel to his much-admired novel.
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May 07, 2024
Inspired by her grandmother, Eve J. Chung's lively novel, "Daughters of Shandong," traces a harrowing journey across 1950s Communist China.
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May 07, 2024
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, "Miracleman: The Silver Age" goes another way with the return of a godlike hero from a world more like ours.
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May 06, 2024
His anthology "Technicians of the Sacred" included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave.
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May 06, 2024
Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for "Night Watch," while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.
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May 06, 2024
Americans like their politicians to be dog people. Gov. Noem broke the mold.
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May 06, 2024
In Alexis Landau's ambitious new novel, "The Mother of All Things," the frustrations of modern parenting echo through the ages.
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May 06, 2024
Montreal is a city as appealing for its beauty as for its shadows. Here, the novelist Mona Awad recommends books that are "both dreamy and uncompromising."
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May 06, 2024
Hari Kunzru examines the ties between art and wealth in a new novel, "Blue Ruin."
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May 06, 2024
In Alexis Landau's ambitious new novel, "The Mother of All Things," the frustrations of modern parenting echo through the ages.
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May 06, 2024
Michael Deagler's first novel follows a young man who is piecing his life back together and trying very hard not to drink.
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May 06, 2024
The sociologist Sarah Thornton visits strip clubs, milk banks and cosmetic surgeons with the goal of shoring up appreciation for women's breasts.
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May 05, 2024
His anthology "Technicians of the Sacred" included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave.
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May 05, 2024
In "A Life Impossible," the former N.F.L. player opens up about outliving his life expectancy — the challenges, loneliness and moments of joy.
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May 05, 2024
Caroline Crampton shares her own worries in "A Body Made of Glass," a history of hypochondria that wonders whether newfangled technology drives us crazier.
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May 05, 2024
Set in a remote Welsh enclave on the cusp of World War II, Elizabeth O'Connor's "Whale Fall" finds fresh resonance for a coming-of-age debut.
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May 05, 2024
In Monica Wood's rich new novel, "How to Read a Book," death, prison and poetry become the catalyst for new beginnings.
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May 05, 2024
In "All Fours," her first novel in almost 10 years, the writer, artist and filmmaker considers freedom — sexual and otherwise.
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May 04, 2024
A maid resists her employers; citizens resist their country.
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May 04, 2024
The novel "American Abductions" captures the effects of U.S. immigration policy with the expansive reach of art.
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May 04, 2024
The filmmakers do more to align star and character than the novel did. But somehow that doesn't make the movie indebted to the musician.
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May 04, 2024
Elise Juska takes readers back to the summer of 2021. The question is, do we want to go there?
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May 04, 2024
Juli Min's "Shanghailanders" runs from 2040 to 2014, showing how a cast of unsettled characters arrived at their current predicament.
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May 04, 2024
In Fiona Warnick's cozy coming-of-age novel, an aimless college graduate finds an unconventional way to process her difficult transition into adulthood.
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May 03, 2024
He wrote a popular series of books revolving around a hunchbacked detective, Shardlake, whose troubles echo the author's experiences of childhood bullying.
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May 03, 2024
The Irish author discusses "Long Island," the sequel to his 2009 novel "Brooklyn."
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May 03, 2024
An influential arts administrator and educator, he was a trusted confidant to countless writers, notably Philip Roth.
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May 03, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 03, 2024
Even for the youngest readers, attempted piggy-bank robbery may not cut it.
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May 02, 2024
Through psychotherapy, recounted in a memoir, he learned that he had 11 personalities, or fractured parts of his identity. One of them told of childhood abuse.
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May 02, 2024
His essay warning that dictatorship was a real threat went viral, which prompted the early release of "Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart — Again." To relax, he reads the sports pages.
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May 01, 2024
For the first time, China has more than 100 incarcerated writers, and Israel and Russia entered the list of the 10 countries with the most imprisoned writers.
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May 01, 2024
"The Chocolate War," published 50 years ago, became one of the country's most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today.
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May 01, 2024
The novelist played with reality and chance in tales of solitary narrators and mutable identities. Here's an overview of his work.
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May 01, 2024
"I Just Keep Talking," a collection of essays and artwork by the historian Nell Irvin Painter, captures her wide-ranging interests and original mind.
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May 01, 2024
Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. Police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security.
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May 01, 2024
These authors investigate the interior lives of Palestinians charged with violence and probe the confines of Israeli prisons.
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May 01, 2024
With critically lauded works like "The New York Trilogy," the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.
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May 01, 2024
With critically lauded works like "The New York Trilogy," the charismatic author and patron saint of his adopted borough drew worldwide acclaim.
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May 01, 2024
A complicated, generous life yielded a body of work of staggering scope and variety.
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Apr 30, 2024
In "The Demon of Unrest," present-day political strife inspires a dramatic portrait of the run-up to the deadliest war on American soil.
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Apr 30, 2024
Our columnist reviews this month's latest scary releases.
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Apr 30, 2024
Our columnist reviews this month's latest scary releases.
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Apr 30, 2024
Wenyan Lu's novel, "The Funeral Cryer," explores a Chinese tradition through a modern, more personal lens.
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Apr 30, 2024
Rachel Khong's new novel follows three generations of Chinese Americans as they all fight for self-determination in their own way.
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Apr 29, 2024
She wrote her much-anticipated second novel, "Real Americans," while also creating the Ruby, a co-working collective for writers and other artists.
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Apr 29, 2024
The best stories in Honor Levy's "My First Book" capture the quiet desperation of today's smart set. But there is such a thing as publishing too soon.
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Apr 29, 2024
New novels from R.O. Kwon, Kevin Kwan and Miranda July; a reappraisal of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy; memoirs from Brittney Griner and Kathleen Hanna — and more.
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Apr 29, 2024
In Heidi Reimer's debut novel, "The Mother Act," a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who happily mines her life for material.
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Apr 29, 2024
In "The Age of Grievance," the New York Times opinion writer Frank Bruni chronicles the nation's descent into constant kvetching.
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Apr 28, 2024
"Lublin," a novel by Manya Wilkinson, brings together a quest fable and a dark history with disarming humor.
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Apr 28, 2024
In a new book, an anthropologist investigates the makeshift treatment centers that have proliferated during the country's war on drugs.
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Apr 28, 2024
Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.
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Apr 28, 2024
The Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson had a love-hate relationship with her most famous creations.
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Apr 27, 2024
Carl Sandburg's boyhood; Carolyn Forché's political awakening.
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Apr 27, 2024
An illustrator in New York City imagines the personalities of some local bookshops and how they might be embodied.
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Apr 27, 2024
In Lily Meyer's first novel, "Short War," love and family ties are tested by a nation's upheaval.
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Apr 27, 2024
The birth of a pioneering Black dance company comes alive in Karen Valby's "The Swans of Harlem."
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Apr 27, 2024
"Liberty Equality Fashion" explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.
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Apr 26, 2024
The writer Dolly Alderton has long had an avid following in her native England, but with her best-selling comic novel "Good Material" she's become a trans-Atlantic success.
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Apr 26, 2024
The decision by the free expression group came after intense criticism of its response to the war in Gaza. A wave of participants had pulled out of the festival in protest.
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Apr 26, 2024
Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider's frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays are almost reflexively skeptical. Here's where to start.
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Apr 26, 2024
Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III's remains. Now, she's trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews?
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Apr 26, 2024
Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat's "Made in Asian America" spotlights young people who defy erasure and make their own history.
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Apr 26, 2024
A historian and sociologist of science re-examines the "posture panic" of the last century. You'll want to sit down for this.
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Apr 26, 2024
The actress Jodie Comer recasts her Tony-winning turn in Suzie Miller's hit play "Prima Facie" for a new novelization.
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Apr 25, 2024
This musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald's 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy.
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Apr 25, 2024
She devoted her life to showing us how and why.
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Apr 25, 2024
"We are a literary city": Will Evans started saying it in 2013, when he started the publisher Deep Vellum. Alongside the bookstore Wild Detectives and others, they've put Dallas on the literary map.
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Apr 25, 2024
The former N.F.L. player has been living with A.L.S. for more than a decade. Sharing "the most lacerating and vulnerable times" in "A Life Impossible" was worth the physical and emotional toll, he says.
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Apr 25, 2024
Our crime columnist on mysteries by Catherine Mack, Katrina Carrasco, Marcia Muller and K.C. Constantine.
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Apr 24, 2024
In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.
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Apr 24, 2024
"Finish What We Started," by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement's strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.
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Apr 24, 2024
Alana S. Portero's debut, "Bad Habit," follows one woman's coming-of-age in a blue-collar Madrid neighborhood.
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Apr 24, 2024
Our romance columnist recommends three terrific new books, but the one she loves most is Cat Sebastian's "You Should Be So Lucky."
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Apr 24, 2024
Our romance columnist recommends three terrific new books, but the one she loves most is Cat Sebastian's "You Should Be So Lucky."
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Apr 23, 2024
In "Rebel Girl," the punk frontwoman reveals the story of her life — the men who tried to stop her, the women who kept her going and the boy who made her a mother.
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Apr 23, 2024
As described by Gabriel Brownstein, the basis for one of Freud's most famous cases posed as many questions as it answered.
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Apr 23, 2024
"Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other," the author's new collection, ranges from a playful one-act drama set in a lake to short fiction rife with apocalyptic anxiety.
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Apr 23, 2024
Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare's Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it.
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Apr 23, 2024
In "The Whole Staggering Mystery," Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent's past, and finds more than she bargained for.
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Apr 23, 2024
"Lucky" features a 1970s singer-songwriter who finds improbable success.
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Apr 22, 2024
The event had been set for April 29, but weeks of escalating criticism of the organization's response to the war had led nearly half of the prize nominees to withdraw.
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Apr 22, 2024
The editor and essayist Joseph Epstein looks back on his life and career in two new books.
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Apr 22, 2024
How Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver reimagined classic works by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
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Apr 22, 2024
Creators will spotlight Blondie in the comic strip, as she brings someone on board for her catering business.
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Apr 22, 2024
In "The Rulebreaker," Susan Page pays tribute to a pioneering journalist who survived being both a punchline and an icon.
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Apr 22, 2024
Prison, pregnancies and other operatic turns propel Caroline Leavitt's latest book, "Days of Wonder."
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Apr 21, 2024
Focusing on disaster hasn't changed the planet's trajectory. Will a more upbeat approach show a way forward?
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Apr 21, 2024
Slim and precious, "Somehow: Thoughts on Love" doesn't measure up to her best nonfiction.
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Apr 21, 2024
Justin Taylor's novel "Reboot" examines the convergence of entertainment, online arcana and conspiracy theory.
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Apr 20, 2024
A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate.
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Apr 20, 2024
In "The Paris Novel," Ruth Reichl is a glutton for wish fulfillment.
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Apr 20, 2024
In "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande," Raymond Jonas's story of French-backed nation building in Mexico foreshadows the proxy battles of the Cold War.
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