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May 20, 2024
Kevin Kwan left Singapore's opulent, status-obsessed, upper crust when he was 11. He's still writing about it.
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May 20, 2024
In Garth Risk Hallberg's new novel, a teenage rebel and her father reconnect amid a sea of their own troubles.
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May 20, 2024
In "Once Upon a Time," Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for marrying John F. Kennedy Jr.
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May 19, 2024
An assault led to Chanel Miller's book, "Know My Name." But she had wanted to write children's books since she was a child. She's done that now with "Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All."
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May 19, 2024
Three new books show us why the United States should do everything it can to nip the possibility in the bud.
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May 19, 2024
R.O. Kwon's second novel, "Exhibit," sees two Korean American women finding pleasure in a bond that knits creative expression and sadomasochism.
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May 18, 2024
If you love stories about beautiful losers, consider Brian Moore's novel about an alcoholic virgin or Benjamin Anastas's tale of an inferior twin.
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May 18, 2024
Sitting down for lunch with Reese Witherspoon, whose book picks have become a force in the publishing industry.
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May 18, 2024
When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.
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May 18, 2024
In Frankie Barnet's novel, "Mood Swings," two young women work to craft meaningful lives as society collapses around them.
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May 18, 2024
In "Wait," Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.
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May 17, 2024
Adam Higginbotham discusses his new book, "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space."
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May 17, 2024
Finding a book you'll love can be daunting. Let us help.
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May 17, 2024
She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America's first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.
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May 17, 2024
A comics collection's sibling narrators and a graphic novel's hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.
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May 17, 2024
The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.
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May 16, 2024
He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.
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May 16, 2024
Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.
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May 16, 2024
Audiobooks have let the artist "stay invested in stories while working with my hands." Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid's "An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children."
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May 15, 2024
As it cancels events amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America faces questions about when an organization devoted to free speech for all should take sides.
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May 15, 2024
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
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May 15, 2024
Allen Bratton's novel transforms the rise of Henry V into a contemporary story about a brash gay man grappling with abuse and guilt.
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May 15, 2024
"Our Kindred Creatures" details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
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May 14, 2024
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
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May 14, 2024
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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May 14, 2024
In "The Race to the Future," Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.
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May 14, 2024
Tracing his path from homelessness to proud parenthood, the writer Carvell Wallace recounts a lifetime of joy and pain in his intimate memoir.
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May 14, 2024
In "Chasing Hope," the veteran Times journalist remembers the highs and lows of his storied career.
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May 14, 2024
In "Morning After the Revolution," an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument or ideas.
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May 14, 2024
In the riveting "Skies of Thunder," Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.
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May 13, 2024
The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.
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May 13, 2024
A new book, "The Light Eaters," looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.
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May 13, 2024
As recounted in Adam Higginbotham's "Challenger," the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.
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May 13, 2024
In "Fat Leonard," Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.
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May 12, 2024
As Michelle T. King demonstrates in this moving and ambitious biography, Fu Pei-mei was far more than "the Julia Child of Chinese cooking."
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May 12, 2024
An anxious artist's road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In "All Fours," the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn't.
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May 12, 2024
In Kimberly King Parsons's witty, profane novel, "We Were the Universe," a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.
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May 12, 2024
In her intimate memoir, "Rebel Girl," the punk-rock heroine Kathleen Hanna recalls a life of trauma, triumph and riot grrrl rebellion.
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May 11, 2024
Barbara Kingsolver's debut, and a bad seed's beginnings.
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May 11, 2024
An entertaining new history by Steven Johnson explores an explosive moment when terror and nascent surveillance collided.
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May 11, 2024
Jessica Shattuck's "Last House" dips into the cultural intrigues of 20th-century America, but keeps its nose surprisingly clean.
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May 11, 2024
Inspired by her own family's past, Claire Messud's "This Strange Eventful History" unfolds over seven decades and two wars.
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May 10, 2024
A renowned member of the New York School of poets, he also found accidental notoriety when he was photographed during the 1968 uprising at Columbia University.
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May 10, 2024
The best-selling author of dark fantasy novels for Y.A. and adult audiences discusses her career and her stand-alone new historical fantasy, "The Familiar."
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May 10, 2024
For The Book Review Podcast's May book club, we'll talk about "James," Percival Everett's radical reimagining of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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May 10, 2024
It's called The Lynx, after the wildcat native to the state. "We wanted something a little fierce," she said.
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May 10, 2024
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American life.
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May 10, 2024
In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he's singing his story.
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May 10, 2024
In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he's singing his story.
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May 10, 2024
Alki Zei's Greek classic, set in the birthplace of democracy in the mid-1930s, feels eerily relevant in today's America.
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May 09, 2024
For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, "Apostrophes," to decide what to read next.
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May 09, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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May 09, 2024
"They're snapshots of the past: first-night gifts, holidays abroad, memories of lost friends and loved ones," the award-winning actress says. Her latest, written with Brendan O'Hea, is "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent."
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May 09, 2024
The Mamas & the Papas singer was known for her wit, her voice and her skill as a connector. For 50 years, a rumor has overshadowed her legacy.
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May 09, 2024
The singer and songwriter with a silky-smooth voice has written a memoir with Paul Reiser that recounts his story of pain and redemption with dashes of humor.
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May 08, 2024
Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That's what makes it so fun to try.
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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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