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Sep 18, 2019
He nurtured an empire of influential comic strips, including "Cathy," "Doonesbury," "Calvin and Hobbes," "The Boondocks" and "For Better or for Worse."
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Sep 18, 2019
"Dunce," by Mary Ruefle, confronts the extraordinary yet inescapable fact that all of us die.
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Sep 18, 2019
The big business of encouraging the words.
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Sep 18, 2019
"The Second Founding," by the historian Eric Foner, argues that the radical promise of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments — all passed after the Civil War — remains unfulfilled today.
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Sep 18, 2019
"The Dutch House," a novel whose creation she compared to burning a cake, is coming out soon. Let's change the subject.
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Sep 17, 2019
Benjamin Moser's authorized biography of the essayist, critic and cultural icon Susan Sontag pays closest attention to its subject's persona as a "great original creation."
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Sep 17, 2019
Bill McKibben will be the curator of the festival, dedicated to fostering French-American intellectual exchange, which this year focuses on the environment.
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Sep 17, 2019
In her evocative memoir, "Homesick," Jennifer Croft recalls, in words and images, her troubled childhood and the solace she found in language.
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Sep 17, 2019
In his new essay collection, "We Are the Weather," Jonathan Safran Foer turns his attention to the climate crisis. Mark Bittman weighs in.
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Sep 17, 2019
In "Scarred," Sarah Edmondson — once a high-ranking Nxivm member — describes her years in the group.
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Sep 17, 2019
"Guts," Raina Telgemaier's warm, funny and realistic new graphic memoir, hits home for parents and children trying to climb out of the abyss of worry.
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Sep 17, 2019
With anxiety disorders on the rise among children, "Guts," Raina Telgemaier's warm, funny and realistic new graphic memoir, hits home.
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Sep 17, 2019
"My First Black Boyfriend," an essay collection by the comedian and filmmaker, is coming out next year.
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Sep 17, 2019
Four poetry collections — "Be Recorder," by Carmen Giménez Smith; "Odes to Lithium," by Shira Erlichman; "Grief Sequence," by Prageeta Sharma; and "Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers," by Jake Skeets — explore narratives of belonging and identity.
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Sep 17, 2019
In new books, Naomi Klein and Jeremy Rifkin take very different approaches to A.O.C.'s progressive climate proposal.
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Sep 17, 2019
The Canadian poet Steven Price has written a novel, "Lampedusa," about the creation of one of Italy's iconic works of fiction, "The Leopard."
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Sep 17, 2019
In "Coventry," the British author of the widely admired "Outline" trilogy shows how central the self is to her artistic vision.
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Sep 17, 2019
In Stella Tillyard's novel "Call Upon the Water," a 17th-century Dutch engineer sets out to drain the English fenlands, but finds his spirit drained instead.
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Sep 17, 2019
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Sep 16, 2019
A new book, nine years in the making, celebrates the melon in its myriad forms.
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Sep 16, 2019
A new era of the strip, by Gary Larson, is returning.
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Sep 16, 2019
In "Red at the Bone," the effects of an unplanned teenage pregnancy ripple through three generations of a Brooklyn family.
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Sep 16, 2019
In "Red at the Bone," the effects of an unplanned teenage pregnancy ripple through three generations of a Brooklyn family.
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Sep 16, 2019
In Kevin Barry's "Last Boat to Tangier," longlisted for this year's Booker Prize, a pair of existentialist thugs in a Spanish port city recount their friendship, their fights and their many bad decisions.
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Sep 16, 2019
Pilgrims flock to the once-ignored grave of Arthur Rimbaud, the "Jim Morrison of poets," loved by fans as a tragic hero of free thought and authenticity.
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Sep 15, 2019
President Trump and other Republicans defended the Supreme Court justice after a New York Times essay described a previously unreported story about him as a student at Yale.
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Sep 15, 2019
Benjamin Moser's "Sontag" explores the life and work of the vaunted writer and public intellectual, including her long-term relationship with the photographer Annie Leibovitz.
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Sep 14, 2019
Mr. Konrad, known internationally for books like his novel "The Case Worker," advocated individual liberty and played a prominent role after Communist rule ended.
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Sep 14, 2019
A new account by the New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly reinvestigates the allegations of sexual misconduct against the justice.
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Sep 13, 2019
Ms. Siddons found inspiration for her writing in her Georgia upbringing and in her observations of Atlanta as it became a major postwar city.
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Sep 13, 2019
Twenty-one years ago, Dr. Seuss' widow discovered some unpublished manuscripts, including one that has become "Dr. Seuss's Horse Museum," illustrated by Andrew Joyner.
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Sep 13, 2019
His books helped restore the reputations of Grant and Eisenhower and return John Marshall to the forefront of the American story.
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Sep 13, 2019
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey talk about their new book, "She Said," and Ian Urbina discusses "The Outlaw Ocean."
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Sep 13, 2019
In Laurel Snyder's "My Jasper June," the truth is complicated, but the lifesaving power of friendship never flickers.
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Sep 13, 2019
In Renée Watson's "Some Places More Than Others," the historic black neighborhood is home to family secrets, cultural riches — and culture shock.
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Sep 13, 2019
The college admitted its first class of women 50 years ago. "Yale Needs Women," by the historian Anne Gardiner Perkins, uncovers the formidable challenges those students faced.
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Sep 13, 2019
Danticat's 2007 memoir, "Brother, I'm Dying," traces her family's journey from Haiti to the United States.
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Sep 13, 2019
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Sep 13, 2019
A graphic novelist gives in to her curiosity and draws her impressions of Hitler's infamous book.
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Sep 13, 2019
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Sep 13, 2019
The crime novels in Marilyn Stasio's column take readers from East Texas to West Africa, with stops in Ireland and the memory care unit of a nursing home.
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Sep 13, 2019
With "Permanent Record," the former intelligence contractor who leaked documents about the United States government's surveillance programs gives an account of his life.
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Sep 12, 2019
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 12, 2019
You may not get a front-row seat at the shows, but these glossy tomes could be the next best thing.
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Sep 12, 2019
William Dalrymple's "The Anarchy" describes the transformation of a corporation with a security force into a mighty army with a trading division.
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Sep 12, 2019
"There's many layers of fictionalization within this true story."
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Sep 12, 2019
After years of scrutiny for her career, relationships and setbacks, the movie star hopes the public sees another side in her memoir, "Inside Out."
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Sep 12, 2019
The scholar and author, whose new book is "Breathe: A Letter to My Sons," is "not engaged by books which I think of as ‘parlor people' literature."
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Sep 11, 2019
His writing was bawdy, irreverent and joyous but also held up a mirror to uncomfortable truths.
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Sep 11, 2019
A new exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris looks at how literary figures like Eliot, Conrad and Aeschylus shaped the painter's work.
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Sep 11, 2019
Higher education was meant to be a great equalizer. Paul Tough's "The Years That Matter Most" suggests that colleges and universities are exacerbating inequality, not reducing it.
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Sep 11, 2019
"Coventry" collects pieces by the author of the Outline trilogy covering subjects that include literature, parenthood and manners.
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Sep 10, 2019
As many as 200,000 "comfort women" were treated as the Imperial Army's sex slaves. She was the first European to speak up about it — 50 years later.
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Sep 10, 2019
The Gourmet editor remembers Susan Kamil, who died this week.
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Sep 10, 2019
Edward Berenson's "The Accusation" recounts how rumors that Jews were killing children for their blood spread in a small New York town.
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Sep 10, 2019
Salman Rushdie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Strout, Gary Shteyngart and Prince were among the authors she nurtured.
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Sep 10, 2019
His doctrine of the world-system, an influential theory in the field, went beyond tribes, nations and ethnic groups.
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Sep 10, 2019
Nicholas Lemann's "Transaction Man" traces the national deterioration from a more equitable country to a more unjust one.
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Sep 10, 2019
Mr. Frank, who was best known for his groundbreaking book, "The Americans," had a visually raw and personally expressive style that made him one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.
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Sep 10, 2019
In her new novel, Margaret Atwood explores the intertwined fates of Offred, her daughters and Aunt Lydia.
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Sep 10, 2019
Mr. Frank's visually raw and personally expressive style made him one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.
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Sep 10, 2019
Robert Pondiscio spent a year embedded in one of the charter network's controversial, high-performing schools. "How the Other Half Learns" is his account of what he learned.
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Sep 10, 2019
"The Education of an Idealist," by Samantha Power, describes how her years with the Obama administration forced her to alter her thinking on foreign policy.
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Sep 10, 2019
"The Meritocracy Trap," by the Yale Law School professor Daniel Markovits, argues that far from being fair or merit-based, our social system perpetuates inequality.
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Sep 10, 2019
Petina Gappah's novel "Out of Darkness, Shining Light" is narrated by the Africans who carried the explorer's corpse to the coast, a journey of 1,500 miles.
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Sep 10, 2019
His latest book looks at society's long history of getting it wrong when it comes to judging people.
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Sep 10, 2019
Lucy Ellmann's "Ducks, Newburyport" is the only American novel longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize.
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Sep 10, 2019
Lucy Ellmann's "Ducks, Newburyport" is the only American novel longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize.
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Sep 10, 2019
In his novel "Gun Island," Amitav Ghosh challenges readers to deploy all their powers, rational and magical, to confront the demons of climate change.
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Sep 10, 2019
Azadeh Moaveni's "Guest House for Young Widows" tries to understand why middle-class girls and women would join a jihadist movement.
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Sep 10, 2019
In Emma Donoghue's "Akin," a cranky retired professor unexpectedly becomes the guardian of an 11-year-old great-nephew he's never met.
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Sep 10, 2019
The terror doesn't come from ghosts or fiends or clowns — it's ordinary people, folks just like you and me, who are the evil ones.
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Sep 10, 2019
Mary M. Lane's "Hitler's Last Hostages" reports on an art collection, including work by Picasso, Matisse and Degas, that the Nazis had seized from their victims.
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Sep 10, 2019
In "How to Fight Anti-Semitism," Bari Weiss examines the various abuses Jews have suffered simply for being Jews, including a recent flaring on the left.
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Sep 10, 2019
Eleanor Randolph's "The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg" offers a careful assessment of Bloomberg's life and times.
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Sep 10, 2019
Miller's latest historical novel, "Now We Shall Be Entirely Free," plunges readers deep into the 18th-century England of the Peninsular War.
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Sep 10, 2019
Martin Walser's novel "A Man in Love" depicts the elderly Goethe's infatuation with a young woman, which led him to compose the "Marienbad Elegy."
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Sep 10, 2019
Anne Boyer's book is partly about her own illness, and partly about the possibility — and necessity — of finding common cause in individual suffering.
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Sep 10, 2019
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Sep 10, 2019
Stephen Kinzer's "Poisoner in Chief" describes the C.I.A. in the Cold War years, when it was testing LSD and other drugs on citizens, often without their knowledge.
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Sep 09, 2019
Five of this year's most anticipated titles come out Sept. 10. Here's a rundown.
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Sep 09, 2019
"The Penguin Book of Migration Literature," edited by Dohra Ahmad, is designed to tell a more sophisticated version of the subject than the linear narrative of departure, arrival and assimilation.
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Sep 09, 2019
David Yoon's "Frankly in Love," Mary H.K. Choi's "Permanent Record" and Maurene Goo's "Somewhere Only We Know" capture the complexity of K.A. teenagers.
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Sep 09, 2019
Spoilers ahead: The director Andy Muschietti discusses making a big-budget horror film and some of the movie's more surprising plot points.
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Sep 09, 2019
In his Graphic Content column, Ed Park looks at Takei's graphic novel, "They Called Us Enemy," as well as Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's "Grass."
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Sep 09, 2019
Gina Rippon's "Gender and Our Brains" analyzes the history of brain science and the attempt to understand if gender marks our gray matter.
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Sep 09, 2019
The "Freshwater" novelist forays into Y.A. and attempts to find balance amid multiple book and TV projects.
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Sep 08, 2019
The new book, by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, revisits their landmark sexual-assault investigation and exposes the powerful people who protected Weinstein for years.
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Sep 08, 2019
Margaret Atwood fans welcome "The Testaments," new information about Harvey Weinstein and more.
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Sep 08, 2019
"She Said," by The New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, names some of the people who turned against the influential producer, as well as ones who helped cover up his alleged predation.
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Sep 08, 2019
In his latest, King tells the story of an institution where children with special powers are cultivated — but that's just where the nightmare begins.
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Sep 07, 2019
Amitav Ghosh, whose book "Gun Island" is set in an ecologically unstable world, wants literature to explore the environment as much as it does other crises.
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Sep 06, 2019
Some always outline; others never do. Some write in cafes; others don't leave the house. Here's a peek at the writing routines of authors on this week's best-seller lists.
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Sep 06, 2019
The company says a "technical error" is responsible for a "small number" of copies of "The Testaments" going out early. Independent booksellers are angry.
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Sep 06, 2019
James Poniewozik discusses "Audience of One," and Bina Venkataraman talks about "The Optimist's Telescope."
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Sep 06, 2019
In "Super Pumped," Mike Isaac describes the incredible rise and fall of Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of the world's most infamous ride-sharing app.
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Sep 06, 2019
The author of "The 4-Hour Workweek" is behind a surge in funding for clinical research into psychedelic drugs.
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Sep 06, 2019
Tim Ferriss, the author of "The 4-Hour Workweek," is behind a surge in funding for clinical research into psychedelic drugs.
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Sep 06, 2019
The artist Celeste Mountjoy, also known as filthyratbag, retells the story of the very tiny lady, and how sympathies can shift as one grows older.
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Sep 06, 2019
The author of "The 4-Hour Workweek" is behind a surge in funding for clinical research into psychedelic drugs.
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