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Jul 14, 2020
In "Too Much and Never Enough," Mary L. Trump says her uncle is turning this country "into a macro version of my malignantly dysfunctional family."
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Jul 14, 2020
Thomas Frank's "The People, No" and Gene Sperling's "Economic Dignity" offer differing prescriptions for America's liberals.
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Jul 14, 2020
An excerpt from "Filthy Beasts," by Kirkland Hamill
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Jul 14, 2020
Kirkland Hamill's memoir, "Filthy Beasts," proves that the apple can indeed fall far from the tree.
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Jul 14, 2020
"The Bohemians," by the German historian Norman Ohler, recounts the lives of Harro and Libertas Schulze-Boysen, an idealistic young couple, who helped lead the anti-Nazi resistance.
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Jul 14, 2020
"The Year of Dangerous Days," by Nicholas Griffin, delves into the refugee crisis, race riots and drug trade that dominated the city in 1980.
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Jul 14, 2020
Miles Harvey's "The King of Confidence" recounts the fascinating history of the 19th-century grifter who ruled over a breakaway religious colony.
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Jul 14, 2020
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jul 14, 2020
In "Underwater," Ryan Dezember, a Wall Street Journal reporter, reckons with how the 2008 financial crisis changed American homeownership.
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Jul 13, 2020
An excerpt from "Big Friendship," by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
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Jul 13, 2020
An excerpt from "Big Friendship," by Aminatou Sow
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Jul 13, 2020
Three writers share how they revealed their disability, to a family member, to a love interest on a dating app and to oneself.
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Jul 13, 2020
The genderless, racially ambiguous and seemingly mute narrator of Catherine Lacey's third novel makes the people of a Southern town nervous.
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Jul 12, 2020
In a new memoir, Andy Mulvihill tells the story of the notorious New Jersey adventure land founded by his father.
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Jul 11, 2020
He was a passionate Jesse Jackson delegate at the 1984 Democratic National Convention and, later, a mentor to future politicians like Senator Cory Booker.
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Jul 11, 2020
For families ready to roam free, these illustrated guides celebrate the physical joys of wide-open spaces.
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Jul 10, 2020
A few days after more than 150 cultural luminaries warned of a growing "intolerant climate," another group responded with a pointed letter of its own.
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Jul 10, 2020
In Marilyn Stasio's new column, the bodies pile up so fast it's hard to keep count.
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Jul 10, 2020
"Crooked Hallelujah," by Kelli Jo Ford, spans decades and follows hardscrabble lives in Oklahoma.
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Jul 10, 2020
Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Mitchell's career and new novel, "Utopia Avenue," and Maria Konnikova talks about "The Biggest Bluff."
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Jul 10, 2020
"Utopia Avenue," by the British master of intricate literary puzzles, features a band on the make, lots of inside jokes and references to the author's previous works.
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Jul 10, 2020
With "The Old Guard" on Netflix, the director of "Love & Basketball" becomes the first Black woman to make a comic-book film: "We don't get the assumption we can do it, so we have to prove we can."
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Jul 10, 2020
From long-lost friends, to a woman caring for her aging mom, to a biologist struggling with her maternal identity, these protagonists reveal facets of contemporary womanhood.
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Jul 10, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jul 10, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jul 10, 2020
In their new book, "Big Friendship," Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman make the case that platonic relationships deserve as much effort and tending as romantic ones.
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Jul 10, 2020
Charles Leerhsen's biography gives readers the real man and not the Hollywood icon.
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Jul 10, 2020
A cartoonist gets down to the crux of what makes putting pen to paper so difficult.
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Jul 09, 2020
Retail locations shuttered during lockdowns, so the company spruced up hundreds of its stores as the first step in a bigger plan.
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Jul 09, 2020
In "The Rules of Contagion" the scientist Adam Kucharski turns to the nonbiological to understand the common features of a virus, whether physical or virtual.
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Jul 09, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 09, 2020
Chris Wallace's "Countdown 1945" recounts in gripping detail the rush to develop the atomic bomb and the debate over whether to use it.
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Jul 09, 2020
"My mother used to buy me any and every book with the word ‘Sarah' in the title."
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Jul 09, 2020
Paul Tremblay's "Survivor Song" follows a pregnant woman navigating an anarchic Massachusetts in the midst of an epidemic.
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Jul 09, 2020
Coronavirus can't keep this prolific author from her fans.
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Jul 08, 2020
In "Too Much and Never Enough," Mary L. Trump says her uncle is turning this country "into a macro version of my malignantly dysfunctional family."
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Jul 08, 2020
Growing up Trump wasn't easy. There were feuds, grudges and spanking with a wooden spoon. Now, there's the burden of the name.
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Jul 08, 2020
In a note on his website, Mr. Larson thanked a clogged pen for pushing him to create digital cartoons on a tablet. "I'm just exploring, experimenting, and trying stuff," he said. "New Stuff."
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Jul 08, 2020
In a note on his website, Mr. Larson thanked a clogged pen for pushing him to create digital cartoons on a tablet. "I'm just exploring, experimenting, and trying stuff," he said. "New Stuff."
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Jul 08, 2020
"Antkind," Kaufman's hallucinogenic debut novel, features the madcap effort to reconstruct a masterpiece of outsider cinema.
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Jul 08, 2020
In a new memoir, the "Saturday Night Live" star and Weekend Update anchor contemplates a life and career that are still in flux.
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Jul 07, 2020
An open letter published by Harper's, signed by luminaries including Margaret Atwood and Wynton Marsalis, argued for openness to "opposing views." The debate began immediately.
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Jul 07, 2020
An open letter published by Harper's, signed by luminaries including Margaret Atwood and Wynton Marsalis, argued for openness to "opposing views." The debate began immediately.
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Jul 07, 2020
He defined his artistic mission as finding humor in the mundane and everyday — and he found it for 35 years.
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Jul 07, 2020
Marjorie Garber's new book prods at the cloud of confusion surrounding the word — its philosophical roots, literary history, political uses and inadvertent comedy.
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Jul 07, 2020
The artists' retreat, founded in 1907, has hosted the likes of James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein and Audre Lorde, among others.
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Jul 07, 2020
The president's niece, Mary L. Trump, is the first to break ranks with the family and release a tell-all memoir.
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Jul 07, 2020
A memoir from the poet Natasha Trethewey; "Hamnet," Maggie O'Farrell's novel about Shakespeare; and "Too Much and Never Enough," an exposé about President Trump by his niece.
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Jul 07, 2020
The British pop star, who's releasing her first album in five years, "Brightest Blue," also has Kate Bush and an Almodóvar film on her list of cultural must-haves.
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Jul 07, 2020
A selection of recent books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Jul 07, 2020
An excerpt from "Want," by Lynn Steger Strong
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Jul 07, 2020
An excerpt from "Notes on a Silencing," by Lacy Crawford
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Jul 07, 2020
An excerpt from "Burning Down the House," by Julian E. Zelizer
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Jul 07, 2020
An excerpt from "The Beauty in Breaking," by Michele Harper
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Jul 07, 2020
Lacy Crawford told her story when she was a student at St. Paul's School. Few people listened. Now she's telling it again.
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Jul 07, 2020
Lacy Crawford told her story when she was a student at St. Paul's School. Few people listened. Now she's telling it again.
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Jul 07, 2020
"The Vapors," by David Hill, brings the mobsters, gamblers, drinkers and crooked politicians to life in an exuberant history of a now-forgotten capital of sleaze.
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Jul 07, 2020
David James Poissant's "Lake Life" tests the limits of a family's capacity for love and forgiveness.
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Jul 07, 2020
Take bored boys. Add lucid dreaming. Shake vigorously. Welcome to Alex North's dark thriller, "The Shadows."
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Jul 07, 2020
Michele Harper's memoir could not be more timely. Also, if think your job is stressful, take a walk in this author's white coat.
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Jul 07, 2020
Two new story collections reveal the toxicities of (mostly white) masculinity, from the frat house to the Midwestern farm.
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Jul 07, 2020
In "Raising a Rare Girl," Heather Lanier writes about a daughter who has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
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Jul 07, 2020
"22 Minutes of Unconditional Love," by Daphne Merkin, muses on the process of making up stories while recounting a young woman's torrid affair with an older man.
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Jul 07, 2020
In Lysley Tenorio's debut novel, "The Son of Good Fortune," the Filipino-American journey is over before the story even begins.
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Jul 07, 2020
Camilla Lackberg shows how stifled ambition never really goes away. It just bides its time.
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Jul 07, 2020
Lynn Steger Strong's new novel follows a Brooklyn wife and mother through professional failure, bankruptcy and the legacy of her past traumas.
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Jul 07, 2020
Set in Atlantic City in the 1930s, Rachel Beanland's debut novel wades through heartbreak.
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Jul 07, 2020
In Robin Wasserman's new novel, "Mother Daughter Widow Wife," a young woman found on a city bus has no identification, no memory, and no one looking for her.
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Jul 07, 2020
In "Cool for America," Andrew Martin's characters are caught in a lingering post-adolescence, stretching for a certainty that eludes them.
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Jul 07, 2020
Christina Schwarz's fifth novel tells the life story of half of the famous duo, showing the loneliness of life on the lam.
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Jul 07, 2020
A memoir from a Twitter celebrity doesn't name names, but it does provide an entertaining back story.
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Jul 07, 2020
Fans of his Borne trilogy, whether young or old, will find much to enjoy in "A Peculiar Peril."
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Jul 07, 2020
Erica C. Barnett's memoir, "Quitter," chronicles her long and winding road to an alcohol-free life.
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Jul 07, 2020
In "Desert Notebooks," a study of arid America reveals the roots of our present calamities.
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Jul 07, 2020
Julian E. Zelizer's "Burning Down the House" sees Newt Gingrich's rise in Congress as a turning point in political history.
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Jul 06, 2020
In her debut novel, Kelli Jo Ford summons the details of minimum-wage existence in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Jul 06, 2020
Ms. Canedy, a former journalist at The New York Times and the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, will run the namesake imprint at one of the country's largest book publishers.
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Jul 06, 2020
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a series of novels by Black authors married revolutionary politics with pulp fiction. Their plotlines remain distressingly relevant.
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Jul 04, 2020
A leading historian, he wrote and taught in defense of the French language and its heritage and against "globish English."
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Jul 04, 2020
These journeys of the imagination explore what it means to be human.
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Jul 04, 2020
In "Burning Down the House," Julian Zelizer shows how Gingrich was able to exploit the profound developments since Watergate to his lasting advantage.
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Jul 03, 2020
A longtime sportswriter, he collaborated with Hank Aaron, Bob Gibson and Mike Piazza on their autobiographies. "I was there," he once said, "to make the subject more literary."
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Jul 03, 2020
His coming-of-age novel "Bless Me, Ultima" reframed the way many in New Mexico viewed their own history, even as school districts tried to ban it.
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Jul 03, 2020
Feiffer talks about his new picture book and more, and Steve Inskeep discusses "Imperfect Union."
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Jul 02, 2020
A graphic review of Karl Polanyi's seminal work "The Great Transformation," which charted the social effects of capitalism.
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Jul 02, 2020
Irving Howe wrote for the Book Review about American literature — "moving from visions to problems, from ecstasy to trouble, from self to society" — on July 4, 1976. "Land of the free? Yes, but also home of the exploited."
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Jul 02, 2020
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Jul 02, 2020
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Jul 02, 2020
"Let Them Eat Tweets," by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, examines the ways in which the wealthy control the Republican Party.
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Jul 02, 2020
In "14 Miles," his exploration of life on the border, DW Gibson reveals the reality and fantasy of the president's desired wall.
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Jul 02, 2020
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 02, 2020
With a fresh voice and a winning cast, this Netflix update of the popular book series is the throwback that 2020 needs.
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Jul 02, 2020
One hundred years after the 19th Amendment, suffragists' descendants consider how far we've come and how far we still have to go.
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Jul 02, 2020
How do you write about Hollywood's most self-referential screenwriter at a destabilizing moment in history? It takes more than one draft.
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Jul 02, 2020
At this crucial time of reckoning in American racial justice, this poem asks "What work … besides witness?"
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Jul 02, 2020
Christopher Buckley's "Make Russia Great Again," Jessica Anthony's "Enter the Aardvark" and the anthology "The Faking of the President" all have fun with American politics.
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Jul 02, 2020
This author and illustrator is a mainstay across multiple categories. She hopes her work broadens the horizons of young readers.
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Jul 02, 2020
"Years ago I read everything by Hemingway and Raymond Carver. It's a different experience to read Elif Shafak and Lauren Groff."
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Jul 01, 2020
"Becoming Duchess Goldblatt" is a memoir by the writer behind a beloved fictional character whose fans include Lyle Lovett and Celeste Ng.
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Jul 01, 2020
An author, literary agent, marketer, publicist, editors and booksellers talk about how race affects their careers — and the books you read.
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