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Feb 27, 2021
What's with all the female literary characters who can't stand themselves?
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Feb 27, 2021
With echoes of Narnia, David Levithan's "The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S." flips the script on traditional portal fiction.
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Feb 27, 2021
"Latinitas," by Juliet Menéndez, introduces young readers to 40 Latina trailblazers, from the 17th century to the present, as children at play.
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Feb 26, 2021
The archive of the Book Review is rich with fun and games.
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Feb 26, 2021
Oyler discusses her debut novel, "Fake Accounts," and Stephen Kearse talks about the work of Octavia Butler.
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Feb 26, 2021
As the publication celebrates its 125th anniversary, Parul Sehgal, a staff critic and former editor at the Book Review, delves into the archives to critically examine its legacy in full.
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Feb 26, 2021
An excerpt from a new book that examines the vibrant life, and untimely death, of Glenn Burke, baseball's first openly gay player.
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Feb 26, 2021
Sherry Turkle is best known for exploring the dysfunctional relationships between humans and their screens. She takes on a new focus — herself — in her memoir, "The Empathy Diaries."
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Feb 26, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Feb 26, 2021
In "The Committed," a follow-up to "The Sympathizer," Viet Thanh Nguyen's nameless spy navigates a Paris underworld rife with drug deals, violence and colonialism's ghosts.
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Feb 26, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Feb 26, 2021
In these novels, bodies disappear, swallowed by sinkholes and forests.
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Feb 26, 2021
Fossils, flowers, galaxies and a rare "lefty" snail.
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Feb 25, 2021
A retelling of "The Great Gatsby," a healer fighting for her freedom and more: Here are 13 upcoming Y.A. titles you won't want to miss this spring.
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Feb 25, 2021
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Feb 25, 2021
The merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster has the potential to touch every part of the industry, including how much authors get paid and how bookstores are run.
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Feb 25, 2021
A poem that makes you wonder: How is it a flag can divide and unite a people?
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Feb 25, 2021
In "Four Lost Cities," Annalee Newitz explores the fates of four cities lost to time to better understand what leads urban environments to decay.
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Feb 25, 2021
Alex Dimitrov's third collection, "Love and Other Poems," delivers a burst of energy and a happy reminder of Frank O'Hara's work.
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Feb 25, 2021
Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade collaborated on "We Are Water Protectors." The rest is history.
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Feb 25, 2021
"I don't remember the last time the pages of a book were not the final thing I saw before departing off for sleep."
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Feb 24, 2021
Maria Stepanova's "In Memory of Memory" looks to the lives of her ancestors, and celebrates their very "ordinariness."
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Feb 24, 2021
"He told me I was filth," Galia Oz writes in her book, "Something Disguised as Love," among other accusations of physical and emotional abuse. Her mother and siblings have defended their late father.
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Feb 24, 2021
In Jaap Robben's "Summer Brother," a 13-year-old finds himself the default caregiver for his severely disabled brother. His dad's a swindler. The bills are due. Disaster is inevitable.
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Feb 24, 2021
A psychology book by a Nobel Prize-winning author has become a must-read in front offices. It is changing the sport.
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Feb 24, 2021
Long-awaited novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, Imbolo Mbue and Viet Thanh Nguyen, a publishing-house caper, Stephen King's latest and more.
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Feb 24, 2021
"Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us," by Joseph Andras, revisits a thorny episode in the Algerian war of independence.
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Feb 24, 2021
The playwright David Ives reviews Hermione Lee's latest biography, "Tom Stoppard," which meticulously recounts an extraordinary life.
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Feb 23, 2021
Heather McGhee's compassionate but cleareyed book argues that divide-and-conquer tactics have left all Americans worse off.
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Feb 23, 2021
"Klara and the Sun," the eighth novel by the Nobel laureate, portrays a near future of sinister portent, in which artificial intelligence has encroached on every sphere of human existence.
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Feb 23, 2021
An unapologetic proponent of "poetry as insurgent art," he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights.
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Feb 23, 2021
"State of Terror," set for release in October, is about a secretary of state confronting terrorism threats and a weakened nation.
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Feb 23, 2021
In "Flight of the Diamond Smugglers," Matthew Gavin Frank details the surprising role pigeons play in South African diamond smuggling.
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Feb 23, 2021
An excerpt from "The Smash-Up," by Ali Benjamin
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Feb 23, 2021
With his new novel, the Nobel Prize-winner reaffirms himself as our most profound observer of human fragility in the technological era.
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Feb 23, 2021
In her new novel, "The Smash-Up," Ali Benjamin takes readers on an exhilarating ride through a crisis propelled by real-life events.
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Feb 23, 2021
"Tangled Up in Blue," by Rosa Brooks, and "We Own This City," by Justin Fenton, take readers inside two police forces (in Washington and Baltimore) to examine a complicated culture.
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Feb 23, 2021
"Raceless," by Georgina Lawton, and "Surviving The White Gaze," by Rebecca Carroll, follow two Black women who discover their racial identity after a childhood separated from their heritage.
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Feb 23, 2021
New books look at what it was like to be in the Roman military 2,000 years ago and in the American military today.
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Feb 23, 2021
In "Two Truths and a Lie," "Confident Women" and "The Officer's Daughter," readers feel the aftershocks of felonies and malfeasances.
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Feb 23, 2021
The protagonist of Jack Livings's novel, "The Blizzard Party," recalls the late-1970s blowout bash in an Upper West Side penthouse that marked her and her family forever.
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Feb 23, 2021
"The Bone Fire," by Gyorgy Dragoman, follows a 13-year-old girl as she navigates political upheaval and an uncanny world.
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Feb 23, 2021
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Feb 23, 2021
"The Slaughterman's Daughter," by Yaniv Iczkovits, is a sprawling 19th-century quest narrative set in czarist Russia.
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Feb 23, 2021
Tanya Selvaratnam and Vanessa Springora both survived powerful, manipulative men. Now they're telling their tales.
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Feb 22, 2021
This sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Sympathizer" finds its unnamed narrator in France, considering the relationship between that country and Vietnam.
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Feb 22, 2021
In "Animal, Vegetable, Junk," Mark Bittman tells the long, unfolding story of our food sources, tracking the shift from agriculture to agribusiness.
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Feb 21, 2021
Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer for his debut, "The Sympathizer," recognition that was great for his career and bad for his writing. Now he's back with its subversive sequel, "The Committed."
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Feb 21, 2021
Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer for his debut, "The Sympathizer," recognition that was great for his career and bad for his writing. Now he's back with its subversive sequel, "The Committed."
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Feb 21, 2021
Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer for his debut, "The Sympathizer," recognition that was great for his career and bad for his writing. Now he's back with its subversive sequel, "The Committed."
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Feb 19, 2021
Suleika Jaouad talks about "Between Two Kingdoms," and Jason Zinoman discusses great memoirs by comedians.
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Feb 19, 2021
Suleika Jaouad talks about "Between Two Kingdoms," and Jason Zinoman discusses great memoirs by comedians.
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Feb 19, 2021
In "Ancestor Approved" and "The Sea-Ringed World," sacred stories provide comfort by bringing people together.
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Feb 19, 2021
The novelist spent his summers at the waterfront property, which sits on 1.8 acres and includes his "writing house." The asking price is $17.9 million.
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Feb 19, 2021
A syllabus of sorts for exploring some of the funniest books of all time by the funniest people.
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Feb 19, 2021
Her novel, "How Beautiful We Were," is a story about how people respond to environmental destruction. It was delayed by the pandemic and before that by the success of her previous book, "Behold the Dreamers."
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Feb 19, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Feb 19, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Feb 18, 2021
In "Concrete Rose," Angie Thomas returns to the world of "The Hate U Give" to explore one pivotal character's early days.
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Feb 18, 2021
Spawn's creator, Todd McFarlane, is introducing new characters with an eye to building a larger universe.
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Feb 18, 2021
Three recent memoirs explore self-definition amid chronic illness, race and fatherhood.
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Feb 18, 2021
Joel Dias-Porter has crafted a modern elegy for gun violence's victims.
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Feb 18, 2021
"Ratched is prim, soft-spoken, her smile placid, even serene, yet she's as scary as your grandmother with blacked-out eyes and a bloody hypodermic needle."
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Feb 18, 2021
"When Harry Met Minnie" tells the story of two women who became friends as their dogs fell in love.
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Feb 17, 2021
Daphne A. Brooks proposes an expansive lineage that includes Zora Neale Hurston, Pauline Hopkins, Rhiannon Giddens and Beyoncé.
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Feb 17, 2021
Daphne A. Brooks proposes an expansive lineage that includes Zora Neale Hurston, Pauline Hopkins, Rhiannon Giddens and Beyoncé.
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Feb 17, 2021
Daphne A. Brooks writes that an old guard of taste-makers is still hesitant to "imagine a pop (culture) life with Black women at its full-stop center."
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Feb 16, 2021
Our critic calls this recounting of a middle-age writer preying on a 13-year-old girl a "work of dazzling, highly controlled fury."
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Feb 16, 2021
Patricia Lockwood followed up on her memoir "Priestdaddy" with "No One Is Talking About This," a novel that explores the chaotic feel of the internet and the pain of personal loss.
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Feb 16, 2021
An author who specializes in unearthing forgotten figures argues for the importance of Charlie Hill, the first Indigenous comic to appear on "The Tonight Show."
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Feb 16, 2021
An excerpt from "Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment," by Theo Padnos
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Feb 16, 2021
An excerpt from "The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song," by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Feb 16, 2021
Gates's "The Black Church" recounts the foundational role of religion in the history of Black America.
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Feb 16, 2021
"Cowboy Graves," a collection of three novellas, is the latest posthumous release from the Chilean writer.
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Feb 16, 2021
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Feb 16, 2021
"Blindfold" is the American journalist Theo Padnos's memoir of his nearly two years in captivity and a meditation on resilience.
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Feb 16, 2021
"The Ravine," by Wendy Lower, investigates a rare photograph documenting the murder of Jews in Ukraine during the Holocaust, unearthing a history of perpetrators and victims.
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Feb 16, 2021
In her debut novel, "All Girls," Emily Layden takes readers on a yearlong tour of a New England boarding school roiled by sexual assault allegations.
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Feb 16, 2021
"Ticking Clock," a new memoir by Ira Rosen, a former producer for the show, recounts the newsmagazine's pathbreaking journalism and its culture of harassment and abuse.
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Feb 16, 2021
"No One Is Talking About This," by the poet and memoirist who honed her craft on Twitter, finds beauty and grief in a life split between the virtual and physical worlds.
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Feb 16, 2021
Robert Elder's new biography, "Calhoun," recounts not only his life, but also his ideas about minority rights and his legacy on democratic political thought.
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Feb 15, 2021
Hermione Lee's biography of the playwright and screenwriter covers his rigorous research and writing habits, his famous friends and his political thinking.
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Feb 15, 2021
In "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster," the billionaire Microsoft founder lays out his concerns for the earth and some concrete ideas for the future.
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Feb 14, 2021
Writing for many publications, he drew attention to neo-Nazis, corporate polluters, preening politicians and the practice of solitary confinement.
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Feb 14, 2021
Writing for many publications, he drew attention to neo-Nazis, corporate polluters, preening politicians and the practice of solitary confinement.
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Feb 13, 2021
This week, celebrate Presidents' Day, tune in to a discussion between two members of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. and try a new recipe for Mardi Gras.
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Feb 13, 2021
He was most closely associated with the Yale School, which took on the foundations of literary scholarship in the 1970s and '80s.
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Feb 13, 2021
The acclaimed biographer's life of the widely admired playwright and screenwriter follows her works about Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and others.
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Feb 13, 2021
Forbidden to express his ardor, a besotted writer found ways to say what he felt.
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Feb 12, 2021
In "Strange Bedfellows," Ina Park offers a humane and humorous rundown of sexually transmitted infections, with the hope of reducing the shame that accompanies them.
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Feb 12, 2021
Simon Winchester talks about "Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World," and Amelia Pang discusses "Made in China."
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Feb 12, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Feb 12, 2021
Overcoming shyness and isolation via notes, pictures and a pine cone.
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Feb 12, 2021
There's the latest from Walter Mosley, "Blood Grove," as well as new books from Belinda Bauer, Catie Disabato and Elle Cosimano.
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Feb 12, 2021
For Valentine's Day, some titles that first inspired a certain passion in their readers, beyond the literary.
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Feb 12, 2021
In "The Good Girls," Sonia Faleiro examines the aftermath of killings that became a referendum on sexuality and secrets.
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Feb 12, 2021
Michael Patrick F. Smith's "The Good Hand" is a memoir about grinding work in the last days of the Bakken oil boom.
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Feb 12, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Feb 11, 2021
She introduced Americans to new cuisines and helped transform cooking from a domestic chore to a cultural touchstone, inspiring her daughter, Alex, to be a chef.
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Feb 11, 2021
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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