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Mar 06, 2026
His Oscar-winning 1972 screenplay starred Robert Redford as an idealistic public interest lawyer making a run for the Senate.
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Mar 06, 2026
Her landmark book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.
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Mar 06, 2026
Bob Crawford discusses the leap from stage to page and why his new book, "America's Founding Son," feels so relevant.
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Mar 06, 2026
Ms. Morrison, who wrote "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon," was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.
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Mar 06, 2026
A distinguished American poet, she examined the experience of being Black and female in the 20th century.
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Mar 06, 2026
She enjoyed a lifelong reputation as a glittering, annihilating humorist. For her epitaph, she suggested, "Excuse My Dust."
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Mar 06, 2026
Her large body of work, which included poetry, essays and autobiography, reflected her hatred of racial and sexual prejudice.
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Mar 06, 2026
Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost writers of Black folklore, she died in obscurity.
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Mar 06, 2026
An iconoclastic journalist, she was known for her war coverage and her aggressive, revealing interviews with the powerful.
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Mar 06, 2026
She was recognized in 1945 for three "Soñetos de la Muerte" ("Sonnets of Death"), which were first published in Chile in 1922.
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Mar 06, 2026
She overcame blindness and deafness, but insisted that there was nothing miraculous about her achievements.
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Mar 06, 2026
She caused controversy with books like "Eichmann in Jerusalem," published in 1963, which grew out of her coverage of Adolf Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker.
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Mar 06, 2026
A star writer from the heyday of magazines reveals the family secret behind his award-winning stories.
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Mar 06, 2026
Memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Arsenio Hall; essays from David Sedaris and Jesmyn Ward; plus histories, true crime, biographies and more.
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Mar 06, 2026
New novels from Tana French, Emma Straub, Ben Lerner, Solvej Balle, Shannon Chakraborty, Tom Perrotta, Elizabeth Strout — and plenty more.
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Mar 06, 2026
In "Little Monk Writes Rain," "Yulu's Linen" and "Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise," spirited children meet Eastern visual traditions that have a life of their own.
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Mar 05, 2026
The playwright and his collaborator André Gregory are together again, delivering a sumptuous set of interlinked monologues about life, death and betrayal.
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Mar 05, 2026
In a career studded with literary awards, he was the author of dozens of books that grappled with his nation's legacy of dictatorship and colonialism.
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Mar 05, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 05, 2026
The Book Review podcast is talking with Andy Weir about his book "Project Hail Mary" and its much-anticipated movie adaptation.
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Mar 05, 2026
The sixth book is scheduled to be released on Oct. 27, 2026, and the seventh on Jan. 12, 2027, the author announced on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.
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Mar 05, 2026
In "Chosen Land," Matthew Avery Sutton argues that, despite the intentions of certain founders, the First Amendment guaranteed that the United States would be a godly country.
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Mar 05, 2026
In "Days of Love and Rage," Anand Gopal creates an indelible portrait of revolution and civil war in Syria.
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Mar 05, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new books.
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Mar 05, 2026
Waiting for readers of Diana Gabaldon's series to see the episode is "exciting and nerve-racking," says its star, who wrote five books during its 12-year run.
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Mar 04, 2026
The sixth book is scheduled to be released on Oct. 27, 2026, and the seventh on Jan. 12, 2027, the author announced on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast.
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Mar 04, 2026
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's new novel, "Lake Effect," is the latest in a specific contemporary subgenre: "Four Adult Siblings Reconvene to Rehash Their Privileged but Fraught Adolescence."
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Mar 04, 2026
In "Reproductive Wrongs," the classicist Sarah Ruden traces efforts to exert political control over family planning back 2,000 years.
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Mar 04, 2026
A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue.
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Mar 04, 2026
Ivana Sajko's novel "Every Time We Say Goodbye" explores personal and political crises in lengthy, lyrical sentences.
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Mar 04, 2026
For Bethany Collins, Herman Melville's novel is rife with centuries-old political anxieties that still resonate today.
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Mar 03, 2026
In the stage versions of two beloved books, the most impressive moments emerge when the productions stray from the source material.
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Mar 03, 2026
In "Muv," the biographer Rachel Trethewey looks at the Mitford family matriarch.
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Mar 03, 2026
In Vigdis Hjorth's novel "Repetition," a writer recalls a pivotal period of transformation, sex and family crises.
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Mar 03, 2026
In "The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts," a therapist's home turns into a nightmare manifestation of her sadness and grief.
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Mar 02, 2026
"Field Notes From an Extinction," by Eoghan Walls, follows a naturalist who wants to study birds but ends up with a much harder task.
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Mar 02, 2026
Álvaro Enrigue's new novel, "Now I Surrender," weaves past and present in a baroque anti-Western set in contested borderlands.
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Mar 01, 2026
"Backstitch," a novel by Marian Mitchell Donahue, examines the stark contrast between public talent and private troubles.
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Mar 01, 2026
In "El Paso," Jazmine Ulloa paints her hometown as a microcosm for all that is good and bad about the United States.
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Mar 01, 2026
In M.L. Stedman's new novel, "A Far-Flung Life," the beauty and breadth of her Western Australian setting stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.
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Mar 01, 2026
Our columnist on the month's best new mysteries.
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Mar 01, 2026
Jesse Appell left everything behind to pursue a comedy career in China, where Western-style club comedy was just finding its footing.
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Mar 01, 2026
Funny, furious and profane, "You With the Sad Eyes" finds the TV star facing childhood trauma and reflecting on the limits imposed by illness.
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Feb 28, 2026
In Maria Stepanova's novel "The Disappearing Act," an accidental stopover in a foreign town leads to personal change.
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Feb 28, 2026
James Cahill's "The Violet Hour" contrasts the artifice of blue-chip modern art with the messy personal lives of the people who create and consume it.
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Feb 28, 2026
These 13 bloodthirsty tales will keep you up at night with clever thrills and heart-pounding action.
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Feb 27, 2026
Emily Brontë's classic Gothic romance is the basis for a new movie. It's also more bonkers than you remember.
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Feb 27, 2026
In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones's new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family.
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Feb 27, 2026
"A World Appears" explores what makes you you.
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Feb 27, 2026
Novels by Tana French, Yann Martel and Cat Sebastian; memoirs by Christina Applegate and Liza Minnelli; a Judy Blume biography and more.
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Feb 27, 2026
Twelve recommendations for young fans of Mo Willems.
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Feb 27, 2026
For 50 years, Patricia Finn kept to the background and told other people's stories. Now, in "The Golden Boy," she's finally telling one of her own.
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Feb 26, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Feb 26, 2026
She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.
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Feb 26, 2026
A magnetic personality, she reinvented herself twice, bringing the same spirit to investigating child abuse and communing with dogs that she did to writing poetry.
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Feb 26, 2026
The bassist and photographer who logged time in Hole and Smashing Pumpkins unpacks one of the most creative and chaotic times of her life in a new memoir.
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Feb 26, 2026
In a new book, the biographer Justine Picardie romps through a century of royal wardrobes.
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Feb 25, 2026
Considered an "author's publisher" at Random House and then Penguin, she cultivated the careers of dozens of celebrated novelists and nonfiction writers.
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Feb 25, 2026
From George Saunders to the National Book Foundation, the literary world has been besieged by fake requests. Just like me.
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Feb 25, 2026
"Starry and Restless," by Julia Cooke, delivers an immersive account of the pathbreaking careers of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Emily Hahn.
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Feb 24, 2026
Rachel Reid told fans that the disease's progression was slowing her writing and that a much-anticipated follow-up book would be pushed back.
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Feb 24, 2026
Reid, a popular romance author, told fans that the disease's progression was slowing her writing and that a much-anticipated sequel would be pushed back. She was diagnosed in 2023.
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Feb 24, 2026
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker talks about the daunting task of adapting Denis Johnson's enigmatic novella
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Feb 24, 2026
The final novel from a titan of Latin American literature follows a critic trying to capture the essence of his national culture.
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Feb 24, 2026
Novels by Daniel Kehlmann, Olga Ravn and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among the 13 titles nominated for the renowned award for fiction translated into English.
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Feb 24, 2026
Conservation experts helped the Nazi regime inspect church and civil archives to track down people they sought to persecute, a researcher concluded.
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Feb 24, 2026
In "Red Dawn Over China," the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism's rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.
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Feb 24, 2026
"More Than Enough" traces the struggles of a New York City private-school teacher, often through rose-tinted glasses.
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Feb 24, 2026
Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music.
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Feb 24, 2026
The new book by the California governor and undeclared presidential hopeful depicts a man shaped as much by hardship and struggle as privilege.
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Feb 23, 2026
In his lyrical writings, he examined physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.
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Feb 23, 2026
In "The Mixed Marriage Project," Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father's lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own.
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Feb 23, 2026
Literary and cultural denizens of the nation's capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post's scuppered Book World supplement.
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Feb 23, 2026
In his lyrical writings, he explored physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.
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Feb 23, 2026
In essays and books, he explored physical landscapes and the terrain of his own life, up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.
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Feb 23, 2026
Ian McGuire's new novel, "White River Crossing," tracks a party of 18th-century fortune seekers through the northern Canadian wilds.
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Feb 22, 2026
As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book "Is There No Place on Earth for Me?" won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Feb 22, 2026
The best stories in "Brawler" find the writer tackling the tectonic shifts that can suddenly crack open seemingly secure families.
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Feb 22, 2026
Our columnist on four stellar new releases.
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Feb 22, 2026
The outrageous reality TV star has written a memoir — part evolution, part exorcism. She's more than ready to tell you why.
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Feb 21, 2026
In Charleen Hurtubise's new novel, "Saoirse," a traumatic family secret propels an American teenager to Ireland in the early 1990s.
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Feb 21, 2026
His public radio show, "Bookworm," was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.
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Feb 21, 2026
With "The Lost Boys" on Broadway and Cynthia Erivo in "Dracula" in London, our horror expert looks at how bloodsuckers sunk their teeth into pop culture.
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Feb 20, 2026
Ahead of this year's Academy Awards, the director appeared on the Book Review podcast to speak about his latest film.
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Feb 20, 2026
His public radio show, "Bookworm," was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.
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Feb 20, 2026
"The Optimists," by Brian Platzer, is an account of an extraordinary character, as remembered by her middle-school instructor.
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Feb 20, 2026
Judith Chernaik's idea to feature verse in subway cars has transformed the morning commutes of millions worldwide.
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Feb 20, 2026
Our romance columnist says, "With romcoms, you need to go big or go home." These novels do just that.
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Feb 20, 2026
Julie Fogliano and Marla Frazee's "Because of a Shoe" and Beatrice Alemagna's "Her Muddy Majesty of Muck" address children's anger with compassion.
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Feb 19, 2026
A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Feb 19, 2026
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Feb 19, 2026
James Salter's "Light Years" had a big influence on "So Old, So Young," his new book about college friends drifting in and out of one another's lives.
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Feb 19, 2026
In Tayari Jones's new book, two motherless girls embark on lifelong journeys to find the family they've always yearned for.
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Feb 19, 2026
In "Kin," the follow-up to the best-selling "An American Marriage," she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.
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Feb 19, 2026
In "Kin," the follow-up to the best-selling "An American Marriage," she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.
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Feb 19, 2026
The best-selling author Marie Lu recommends thrilling reads that ground enchanting adventures in recognizable settings.
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Feb 18, 2026
She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.
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Feb 18, 2026
In "Playing for Time," she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.
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Feb 18, 2026
Three new books apply an economist's lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself.
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Feb 17, 2026
In "Playing for Time," she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.
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