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Apr 16, 2024
More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.
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Apr 16, 2024
There's more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes's riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.
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Apr 16, 2024
"Crooked Seeds," by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.
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Apr 16, 2024
Gillian Linden's slim debut novel, "Negative Space," explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
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Apr 15, 2024
Recent books by Allen Bratton, Daniel Lefferts and Garrard Conley depict gay Christian characters not usually seen in queer literature.
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Apr 15, 2024
"The Spoiled Heart," by Sunjeev Sahota, contrasts race and class struggles in the story of a man's downfall.
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Apr 15, 2024
"Knife" is an account of the writer's brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.
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Apr 15, 2024
In "Muse of Fire," Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.
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Apr 15, 2024
Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.
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Apr 14, 2024
The author's new memoir, "Knife," addresses the attack that maimed him in 2022, and pays tribute to the wife who saw him through. "I wanted to write a book which was about both love and hatred — one overcoming the other," he says.
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Apr 14, 2024
As he struggled with writing and illness, the "Alienist" author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a new memoir, "My Beloved Monster."
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Apr 13, 2024
A tax manifesto by Edmund Wilson and a money-themed story collection.
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Apr 13, 2024
These days, literary events in New York City can require tickets and be just as hard to get into as the hottest restaurant.
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Apr 13, 2024
In "New Cold Wars," David E. Sanger tracks the shifts in U.S. foreign policy as competition among the great powers re-emerges in the 21st century.
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Apr 13, 2024
In the debut novel "The Band," a burned-out pop idol meets a disillusioned professor, raising the question: What if the dangers of fame resemble white-collar ennui?
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Apr 13, 2024
Cult leaders, curdled 1960s idealism and outsider art collide in Max Ludington's prismatic novel, "Thorn Tree."
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Apr 12, 2024
Nearly two years after he was stabbed, he was in fine form as he greeted his fellow writers at a party celebrating his candid memoir, "Knife."
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Apr 12, 2024
The publisher has gone through a lot of changes since its founding in 1924. Its current chief executive, Jonathan Karp, talks about the company's history and its hopes for the future.
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Apr 12, 2024
No, they're not boring. But the charm and magic of these audiobooks make them the ideal bedtime stories for adults.
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Apr 12, 2024
Lesa Cline-Ransome's new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.
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Apr 12, 2024
Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month's diverse offerings.
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Apr 11, 2024
The classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.
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Apr 11, 2024
He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term "coercion control" to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.
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Apr 11, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 11, 2024
In the book, Navalny tells his story in his own words, chronicling his life, his rise as an opposition leader, and the attempts on his life.
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Apr 11, 2024
Obsessed with comics from a young age, she was a pioneer in a male-dominated field and later documented the contributions of other women.
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Apr 11, 2024
Feldman, who wrote in "Unorthodox" about leaving her Hasidic community in New York, has been touching a nerve in Germany, where she is now a citizen.
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Apr 11, 2024
In the book, Navalny tells his story in his own words, chronicling his life, his rise as an opposition leader, and the attempts on his life.
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Apr 11, 2024
His new book, "There's Always This Year," is a meditation on beauty, grief and mortality through the lens of basketball and Columbus, Ohio.
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Apr 11, 2024
Richard Goodwin, an adviser to presidents, "was more interested in shaping history," she says, "and I in figuring out how history was shaped." Their bond is at the heart of her new book, "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s."
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Apr 11, 2024
Our columnist on three new psychological thrillers.
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Apr 11, 2024
What can fiction tell us about the apocalypse? Ayana Mathis finds unexpected hope in novels of crisis by Ling Ma, Jenny Offill and Jesmyn Ward.
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Apr 11, 2024
Obsessed with comics from a young age, she was a pioneer in a male-dominated field and later documented the contributions of other women.
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Apr 10, 2024
The milestone comes after a particularly turbulent period, when the publisher was put up for sale and bought by a private equity firm. Since then, investments have boosted morale and helped it grow.
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Apr 10, 2024
In "The Invention of Prehistory," the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.
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Apr 09, 2024
Ed Piskor, 41, was known for his detailed "Hip Hop Family Tree" and "X-Men: Grand Design." A Pittsburgh gallery canceled an exhibition of his work after the initial allegation.
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Apr 09, 2024
In Clare Beams's eerie new novel, "The Garden," nefarious things are afoot.
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Apr 09, 2024
Books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Hwang Sok-yong are among six nominees for the prestigious award for translated fiction.
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Apr 09, 2024
In "The Wide Wide Sea," Hampton Sides offers a fuller picture of the British explorer's final voyage to the Pacific islands.
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Apr 09, 2024
It took Doris Kearns Goodwin a while to adjust to leaving the Concord, Mass., farmhouse she shared with her husband. But Boston has its compensations.
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Apr 09, 2024
In Jen Silverman's new novel, "There's Going to Be Trouble," two generations of activists wrestle with the errors of the past as they strive to create a more survivable future.
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Apr 09, 2024
From dolphins with Alzheimer's to cranky traffic judges, writes Clayton Page Aldern, the whole planet is going berserk.
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Apr 09, 2024
In her far-reaching latest novel, "The Limits," Nell Freudenberger forges connections between the global and the familial.
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Apr 09, 2024
In Lionel Shriver's new novel, judging intelligence and competence is a form of bigotry.
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Apr 08, 2024
In the new series and in five previous movies, the character serves as a blank slate to examine the mores and concerns of the time.
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Apr 08, 2024
In "The Familiar," the blockbuster fantasist conjures a world of mystical intrigue and romance.
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Apr 08, 2024
Tibble, 28, has been hailed as the fresh, funny and immensely skilled voice of a generation.
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Apr 08, 2024
Amid a nationwide surge in book bans, memoirs and novels that deal with the experiences of L.G.B.T.Q. people or explore race received the most challenges.
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Apr 08, 2024
A new omnibus compiles the poet's books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, "Genesis."
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Apr 08, 2024
Jason Roberts tells the story of the scholars who tried to taxonomize the world.
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Apr 08, 2024
In her buzzy memoir, "Sociopath," Patric Gagne shows herself more committed to revel in her naughtiness than to demystify the condition.
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Apr 07, 2024
In "The Wives," Simone Gorrindo tells the story of joining a behind-the-scenes sorority — and how it changed her.
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Apr 07, 2024
"Playboy," an autobiographical novel by the writer Constance Debré, follows a woman who left her husband and job in search of pleasure.
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Apr 07, 2024
Roemer's books bring Suriname, on the South American Caribbean coast, to the world. Her 2019 novel, "Off-White," will be released in English this month.
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Apr 06, 2024
People cross boundaries in Alan Hollinghurst's "The Spell" and Penelope Lively's "The Photograph."
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Apr 06, 2024
Keith O'Brien's "Charlie Hustle" tracks the great ballplayer's historic career and also tells a story involving gamblers, gangsters and drug addicts.
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Apr 06, 2024
For the "Star Trek" actor and author of the new children's book "My Lost Freedom," it's all about green tea and antioxidants. "I drink it every day, all day. I am an addict," he says.
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Apr 06, 2024
Scarlett Thomas's latest novel, "The Sleepwalkers," recounts the tale of a couple's disastrous getaway, told through letters, transcripts and more.
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Apr 06, 2024
In "A Better World," a family hoping to escape their dangerous reality gets invited to an exclusive town only to discover that it's not as peaceful as it seems.
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Apr 06, 2024
In "Fi," Alexandra Fuller describes the sudden death of her 21-year-old.
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Apr 05, 2024
On this week's podcast, we talk to the novelist Grady Hendrix and TV showrunner Damon Lindelof about the work and influence of Stephen King.
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Apr 05, 2024
She explored the struggles of young women in the novel "The L-Shaped Room" but found her biggest success with a children's book about a magical cupboard.
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Apr 05, 2024
A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel.
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Apr 05, 2024
For lovers of vintage books and periodicals, "The Art of the Literary Poster" celebrates a vibrant niche in late-19th-century advertising.
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Apr 05, 2024
A hectic high-profile adaptation for Audible plays fast and loose with George Orwell's original text.
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Apr 04, 2024
This year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Poison books, anyone?)
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Apr 04, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 04, 2024
John Schu is a best-selling author, a children's librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page.
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Apr 04, 2024
"I mean that as an organizing principle," says the U.S. poet laureate, who has edited a new anthology of nature poetry called "You Are Here," "and also as a slight against prose."
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Apr 03, 2024
In "Tuesdays With Morrie," the 84-year-old actor was eager to tackle "a rich role in a show that asks, ‘What if despair and death are not the end?'"
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Apr 03, 2024
The actress, known for roles in the "Pitch Perfect" movies, gets vulnerable about her weight loss, sexuality and money in her new memoir, "Rebel Rising."
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Apr 03, 2024
Judith Butler's new book, "Who's Afraid of Gender?," tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument.
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Apr 03, 2024
The children in these illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.
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Apr 03, 2024
In "My Black Country," the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined.
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Apr 03, 2024
Three new books explore the complications of liberty and the seductions of authoritarianism in American life.
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Apr 02, 2024
His sprawling and boisterous novel "The Sot-Weed Factor," published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country's most innovative writers.
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Apr 02, 2024
By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.
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Apr 02, 2024
She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.
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Apr 02, 2024
Responding to our list of the funniest books since "Catch-22," readers offer their own choices.
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Apr 02, 2024
In "The Return of Great Powers" and "Up in Arms," Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict through the lens of the past.
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Apr 02, 2024
A Philadelphia chef goes searching for her family history in Jo Piazza's sun-baked multigenerational tale "The Sicilian Inheritance."
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Apr 02, 2024
An editor's ambition. A coveted manuscript. The gift of a cow. Lives and lies graze one another in Neel Mukherjee's tragicomic novel.
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Apr 01, 2024
The tale behind a new museum of children's literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and "The Little Engine That Could."
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Apr 01, 2024
"City in Ruins" is the third novel in Winslow's Danny Ryan trilogy and, he says, his last book. He's retiring in part to invest more time into political activism.
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Apr 01, 2024
At 87, the dapper insider is releasing a new book of interviews conducted in 1980 and 1981 with the band and people nearest to it.
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Apr 01, 2024
In Julia Alvarez's "The Cemetery of Untold Stories," a boneyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives.
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Mar 31, 2024
For Iman Mersal, the slim novel was "life altering." She narrates her journey in the footsteps of its largely forgotten author in "Traces of Enayat."
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Mar 31, 2024
Maya Van Wagenen, the author of "Chronically Dolores," shares her favorite young adult books that authentically represent being a teenager living with illness.
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Mar 31, 2024
Cynthia Carr's compassionate biography chronicles the brief, poignant life of the transgender actress Candy Darling, whose "very existence was radical."
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Mar 30, 2024
Jean-Luc Nancy's "God, Justice, Love, Beauty"; Barbara Vine's "A Dark-Adapted Eye"
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Mar 30, 2024
Annabelle Tometich's "The Mango Tree" provides an unvarnished look at her mother, who shot a BB gun at the truck of a purported fruit thief.
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Mar 30, 2024
"Table for Two" is a collection of six stories and a novella set in two very different cultural capitals.
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Mar 30, 2024
In Carys Davies's latest novel, a financially struggling pastor is dispatched to a remote island to evict its lone resident.
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Mar 29, 2024
His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. "I would love an interview," he once said, "where Bukowski is not mentioned."
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Mar 29, 2024
She's sold more than 25 million copies, but isn't slowing down. An Amazon series and a film getting wide distribution mark a new phase.
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Mar 29, 2024
Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai weigh in on 22 of the funniest novels since "Catch-22."
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Mar 29, 2024
The social psychologist and author of "The Anxious Generation" talks about how to combat the toll of smartphones and social media.
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Mar 29, 2024
How the bunny became the reigning star of children's literature.
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Mar 29, 2024
A new kind of disaster fiction is serving as scenario planning for real global crises. Call it the apocalyptic systems thriller.
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Mar 29, 2024
A brother and sister battle for supremacy in 19th-century Newfoundland in Michael Crummey's latest novel, "The Adversary."
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