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Mar 28, 2024
In her best-selling self-help book, Ramani Durvasula offers tips for surviving a person who only has eyes for mirrors.
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Mar 28, 2024
Literary allusions are everywhere. What are they good for?
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Mar 28, 2024
That kids' classic "completely changed my life," says the former football star, now the University of Colorado's "Coach Prime." His new book is "Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field."
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Mar 27, 2024
The decision to find a "respectful final disposition" for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections.
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Mar 27, 2024
In his unsparing novel "Wolf at the Table," Adam Rapp observes a household in denial about the dark force growing up in its midst.
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Mar 27, 2024
She became an award-winning author of children's books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.
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Mar 27, 2024
As "Carrie" turns 50, George R.R. Martin, Sissy Spacek, Tom Hanks, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others recall the powerful impact the writer's work has had on their lives.
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Mar 27, 2024
Stephen Breyer means well. Why is his new book, "Reading the Constitution," so exasperating?
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Mar 27, 2024
The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here's where to start.
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Mar 27, 2024
Our columnist reviews this month's haunting new releases.
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Mar 27, 2024
In "Death Row Welcomes You," Steven Hale follows the cases of men in an American prison awaiting execution, examining what they did as well as the people they've become.
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Mar 27, 2024
As "Carrie" turns 50, George R.R. Martin, Sissy Spacek, Tom Hanks, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others recall the powerful impact the writer's work has had on their lives.
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Mar 26, 2024
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic's task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.
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Mar 26, 2024
In "Age of Revolutions," the CNN host promises to shed light on four centuries of social upheavals and to offer insights on the global fractures of the present.
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Mar 26, 2024
Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.
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Mar 26, 2024
In "The Anxious Generation," Jonathan Haidt says we're failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.
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Mar 26, 2024
Garrard Conley makes his fiction debut with a story about a queer affair between a reverend and a doctor in Puritan New England.
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Mar 26, 2024
In Ferdia Lennon's charming debut, "Glorious Exploits," Athenian prisoners stage Euripides for their wine-swilling, foul-mouthed captors.
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Mar 25, 2024
After his partner, Molly Brodak, died by suicide, Blake Butler found painful truths in her journals and personal items.
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Mar 25, 2024
"Carrie" was published in 1974. Margaret Atwood explains its enduring appeal.
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Mar 25, 2024
In her first essay collection, Becca Rothfeld demonstrates that sometimes, more really is more.
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Mar 25, 2024
In "Long Live Queer Nightlife," the L.G.B.T.Q. studies scholar Amin Ghaziani visits a new generation of ad hoc dance parties that have risen from the ashes of the gay bar.
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Mar 24, 2024
Our columnist reviews saucy new books by Rebecca Ross, Rebekah Weatherspoon and Felicia Grossman.
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Mar 24, 2024
How did gender became a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.
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Mar 24, 2024
Our columnist reviews saucy new books by Rebecca Ross, Rebekah Weatherspoon and Felicia Grossman.
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Mar 24, 2024
In Lisa Ko's adventurous novel "Memory Piece," youthful exploration takes a dark turn for an artist, an activist and a web developer.
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Mar 24, 2024
In "God's Ghostwriters," the historian Candida Moss explores the many people who penned the Scriptures.
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Mar 24, 2024
In "Nuclear War" and "Countdown," Annie Jacobsen and Sarah Scoles talk to the people whose job it is to prepare for atomic conflict.
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Mar 23, 2024
A Chinatown hotel; an adventuress on the make.
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Mar 23, 2024
"The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" has been a runaway critical and commercial success. When you've been David all your life, everything changes "when you become Goliath."
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Mar 23, 2024
"I love ‘I heard a Fly buzz — when I died,'" said the actress, currently performing Off Broadway in "The Seven Year Disappear." "That one gets me every time."
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Mar 23, 2024
In the memoir "Rabbit Heart," Kristine S. Ervin explores the human being behind sensational headlines, and our culture's insatiable thirst for other people's tragedy.
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Mar 23, 2024
In "Worry," Alexandra Tanner puts a humorous spin on the fixations, disappointments, aversions and maladjustments of adulthood.
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Mar 22, 2024
After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.
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Mar 22, 2024
A poet, publisher and professor, she channeled the revolutionary spirit and deconstructionist currents of the 1960s to challenge the conventions of poetry.
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Mar 22, 2024
The duo will lead the cast of "Left on Tenth," a stage adaptation of Delia Ephron's best-selling memoir.
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Mar 22, 2024
The great Irish crime novelist talks about her newest series.
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Mar 22, 2024
A posthumous release from the famed photographer Ruth Orkin casts a female gaze on subjects both ordinary and iconic.
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Mar 22, 2024
A boy's mother is missing. Her Olivetti was the last one to see her before she disappeared.
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Mar 22, 2024
In "On the Move," Abrahm Lustgarten predicts a massive demographic shift in response to an increasingly unlivable world.
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Mar 22, 2024
New books from Hanna Johansson, Julia Malye, Scott Alexander Howard and Scott Guild.
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Mar 22, 2024
Three new books track the pain that persists among American soldiers and diplomats in the aftermath of war.
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Mar 22, 2024
The writer and public intellectual reads "Doppelganger," a searching exploration of uncanny doubles both personal and political.
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Mar 21, 2024
The awards included a lifetime achievement honor given to Judy Blume.
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Mar 21, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 21, 2024
In her first book for adults, an author brings a fresh approach to the tale of an amateur sleuth and an unwitting subject.
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Mar 21, 2024
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
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Mar 21, 2024
In Natalie Dykstra's hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.
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Mar 21, 2024
Crafting the arguments in "You Get What You Pay For," her first essay collection, "felt like pulling apart a long piece of taffy," says the author of "Magical Negro."
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Mar 20, 2024
In his latest book, the prolific British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips promotes curiosity, improvisation and conflict as antidotes to the deadening effects of absolute certainty.
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Mar 20, 2024
Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.
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Mar 20, 2024
Our crime columnist reviews new novels by Andrey Kurkov, Kristen Perrin and others.
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Mar 19, 2024
He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.
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Mar 19, 2024
This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.
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Mar 19, 2024
The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose "King: A Life" presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century "founding father."
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Mar 19, 2024
Toby Lloyd centers religion and politics in his novel, "Fervor," but with a light, mystical touch.
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Mar 19, 2024
In his latest book, the Harvard scholar shows how African American writers have used the written word to shape their reality despite constraints imposed on them from outside.
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Mar 19, 2024
Exclusively for T, Marcus Jahmal envisions what happens on page 76 of novels by Neel Mukherjee, Valerie Martin and others.
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Mar 19, 2024
Circus tigers, giant spiders, shifting borders and motherhood all threaten to end life as we know it in comics this month.
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Mar 18, 2024
Famed for her fearless literary takedowns, Lauren Oyler adopts a softer tone in the new essay collection "No Judgment."
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Mar 18, 2024
When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.
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Mar 18, 2024
The private musings of Sonny Rollins reveal an artist devoted to the rigors of self-improvement.
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Mar 18, 2024
Even when the Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz worked within mass-market forms, he veered toward playful disorder.
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Mar 18, 2024
"The Divorcées" whisks readers to a ranch in Reno, where unhappy wives once stayed to establish Nevada residency so they could file for divorce.
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Mar 18, 2024
"The Morningside" reckons with climate change and its fallout while finding hope in the stories we preserve.
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Mar 17, 2024
Anna Shechtman's new memoir-history hybrid, "The Riddles of the Sphinx," explores the gender politics behind one of the world's most popular word games.
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Mar 17, 2024
Two new books explore the liberal struggle against the illiberal currents that have plagued American progress.
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Mar 17, 2024
In "The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself," Robin Reames contends that Greek and Roman rhetorical techniques can help us speak — and listen — to one another today.
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Mar 17, 2024
In "With Darkness Came Stars," the photorealist Audrey Flack offers a vivid, gossipy chronicle of her career among some of New York City's most famous artists.
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Mar 16, 2024
A love affair between jurors; reclaiming a classic.
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Mar 16, 2024
In "Jaded," a young lawyer searches for justice after she's sexually assaulted by a colleague.
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Mar 16, 2024
In his book "The New York Game," Kevin Baker tells the origin story of the sport we know today.
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Mar 16, 2024
In "Bad Animals," Sarah Braunstein asks who has the right to tell a story — and whether it's possible to get pulled into one against your will.
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Mar 16, 2024
"On Gaslighting," by the philosophy professor Kate Abramson, explores the psychological phenomenon behind the hashtags.
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Mar 15, 2024
Her lucid memoir, "One Way Back," describes life before, during and after she testified that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school.
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Mar 15, 2024
The Times's critic Alissa Wilkinson discusses Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel and Denis Villeneuve's film adaptations.
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Mar 15, 2024
More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal.
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Mar 15, 2024
If you want to understand the power map of the publishing industry, just look at this event's floor plan.
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Mar 15, 2024
Gertrude Chandler Warner's "The Boxcar Children," celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.
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Mar 15, 2024
Sierra Greer's debut novel, "Annie Bot," explores questions of misogyny and toxic masculinity by following a pleasure robot that begins to develop her own consciousness.
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Mar 15, 2024
In Armando Lucas Correa's thriller "The Silence in Her Eyes," vision impairment only enhances a young woman's sense of neighborly discord — and danger is in the air.
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Mar 14, 2024
He was prolific and acclaimed, producing novels, journalism, essays, criticism, screenplays and, in a memoir, an account of his path from faith to atheism and back again.
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Mar 14, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 14, 2024
Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.
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Mar 14, 2024
Sloane Crosley's apartment was robbed. Then her friend died. The only sensible thing to do was write about how it felt — and still feels.
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Mar 14, 2024
The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since "Catch-22." What would top your list?
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Mar 14, 2024
Because we could all use a laugh.
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Mar 14, 2024
Because we could all use a laugh.
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Mar 14, 2024
Men's personal narratives are dissected; women's are "dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir," says the author of "The Light Room: On Art and Care." Her 2012 "Heroines" has just been reissued.
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Mar 13, 2024
In "Glad to the Brink of Fear," James Marcus frames the great Transcendentalist as a writer for our times.
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Mar 13, 2024
A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
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Mar 13, 2024
In "Soldiers and Kings," the anthropologist Jason De León interviews smugglers, arguing that they are victims of poverty and violence, even as they exploit the humans in their care.
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Mar 13, 2024
The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the city that lives and breathes today.
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Mar 12, 2024
An Israeli writer's essay about seeking common ground with Palestinians led to the resignation of at least 10 staff members at Guernica.
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Mar 12, 2024
A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
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Mar 12, 2024
In "Devout," an author who grew up in the evangelical church recounts her struggle to find spiritual and psychological well-being after a mental health challenge.
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Mar 12, 2024
Colin Barrett's first novel, "Wild Houses," follows young, desperate characters in small-town Ireland.
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Mar 12, 2024
In her elegant essay collection, "Lessons for Survival," Emily Raboteau confronts climate collapse, societal breakdown and the Covid pandemic while trying to raise children in a responsible way.
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Mar 12, 2024
In "Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution," the historian Jane Kamensky presents a raw personal — and cultural — history.
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Mar 12, 2024
When the writer built a dream home for his family, he forgot to include one important thing: a place to write. So he found an unconventional solution.
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