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Apr 29, 2025
The British author, best known for her "Old Filth" trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels range widely in genre, tone and style.
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Apr 29, 2025
"The Queen of the Tambourine," "Old Filth" and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.
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Apr 29, 2025
Craig Thompson's new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers — both American-born and not — who made up his community.
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Apr 29, 2025
In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.
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Apr 29, 2025
The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner's trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.
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Apr 29, 2025
In "Strangers in the Land," Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.
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Apr 28, 2025
He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a cantankerous and technology-averse detective.
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Apr 28, 2025
Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes — and failures — in his new memoir, "I Regret Almost Everything."
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Apr 27, 2025
He deconstructed what he called "the colonial library": the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.
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Apr 27, 2025
In the unsentimental memoir "The Golden Hour," Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory.
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Apr 27, 2025
Though she long felt a calling, Sister Monica Clare tried Hollywood first. Her book, and a visit, confirm the warmth — and fragility — of her new community.
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Apr 26, 2025
A spare elegy; a weird journey.
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Apr 26, 2025
The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.
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Apr 26, 2025
There's something on the other side.
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Apr 26, 2025
The reality TV star and author of the new memoir "Accidentally on Purpose" on airplane snacks, tongue-scraping and the problem with women's pants pockets.
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Apr 26, 2025
Our columnist reviews this month's releases.
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Apr 26, 2025
Our columnist reviews this month's releases.
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Apr 25, 2025
An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn't perfect.
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Apr 25, 2025
This off-kilter coming-of-age novel about one boy growing up in New York in the 1980s is detailed, digressive and capable of tracking the most minute shifts in emotional weather.
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Apr 25, 2025
In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss "The Safekeep," Yael van der Wouden's novel about a woman wrapped up in a historical drama and a forbidden romance.
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Apr 25, 2025
As Tomie dePaola's classic approaches a milestone birthday, Big Anthony is long overdue for a bit of sympathy.
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Apr 24, 2025
Even before the presidential election, the school began preparing for Donald Trump's potential return to power. Now faculty members are resigning in protest.
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Apr 24, 2025
With "Blood and Politics," he predicted that anti-immigrant ideologies would become part of mainstream American politics, and warned about downplaying the threat.
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Apr 24, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 24, 2025
New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.
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Apr 24, 2025
New research undermines the traditional view that Shakespeare was a distant, neglectful husband to his wife, Anne.
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Apr 24, 2025
Experts tell the stories of entrepreneurs and executives who have inched closer and closer to their governments.
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Apr 24, 2025
In her sprightly new biography, "The Rebel Romanov," Helen Rappaport introduces us to the enigmatic Julie of Saxe-Coburg.
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Apr 24, 2025
Being a storyteller is just fine with the journalist turned historian. "The Fate of the Day," the second volume in his American Revolution trilogy, is out this month.
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Apr 23, 2025
A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.
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Apr 23, 2025
In "More Everything Forever," the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley's "ideology of technological salvation" to critical scrutiny.
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Apr 23, 2025
In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries.
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Apr 23, 2025
In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries.
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Apr 23, 2025
Susannah Cahalan traces the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who made her husband's coffee, tripped with him and helped break him out of jail.
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Apr 22, 2025
In a lively and sometimes heated argument, the Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared poised to rule for parents with religious objections to storybooks with gay and transgender characters.
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Apr 22, 2025
In "Matriarch," a memoir out Tuesday, Beyoncé and Solange Knowles's mom reveals she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.
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Apr 22, 2025
"Matriarch," a memoir out Tuesday, explores the trials and hard-worn triumphs that shaped Beyoncé and Solange Knowles's mom.
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Apr 22, 2025
The book by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the subject of exhibitions in New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and South Carolina.
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Apr 22, 2025
Louise Hegarty's novel, "Fair Play," nods to classic 1920s detective fiction, with a twist.
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Apr 22, 2025
"Gabriële" considers a writer and pivotal figure of the 20th-century avant-garde who nurtured the talents of others.
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Apr 22, 2025
In "Sister, Sinner," Claire Hoffman tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Aimee Semple McPherson, whose mysterious life made headlines in the 1920s.
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Apr 21, 2025
A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.
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Apr 21, 2025
Parents in Maryland say they have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that storybooks with gay and transgender themes are discussed.
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Apr 21, 2025
In a new collection, Lydia Millet casts a satirical eye on left-wing culture and its array of character types.
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Apr 21, 2025
Drawn from her previously unpublished reflections on sessions with a therapist, "Notes to John" is at once slightly sordid and utterly fascinating.
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Apr 20, 2025
R. Crumb's underground comics were instrumental in shaping the counterculture of the 1960s and beyond, Dan Nadel shows in an exemplary new biography.
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Apr 20, 2025
Dan Nadel's "Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life" takes on the good, the bad, the ugly and the weird. Over punk rock vegetarian food, subject and writer compared notes.
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Apr 20, 2025
The romance author Beth O'Leary recommends books that show off the trope at its best — playful, knowing, original and deliciously satisfying.
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Apr 19, 2025
Marianne Faithfull was a star in her own right; Peggy Caserta was a hippie tastemaker. Their memoirs are riveting.
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Apr 19, 2025
In his paean to another age, David Denby studies four icons who defined American culture in the second half of the 20th century.
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Apr 19, 2025
Suleika Jaouad's new book provides a master class in personal writing. Here's why it's a worthwhile habit — for everyone, not just English majors.
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Apr 19, 2025
The stories in Marie-Helene Bertino's new collection, "Exit Zero," frolic in the nether zone between fantasy and reality.
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Apr 18, 2025
The final novel in Hilary Mantel's great trilogy has been adapted for TV. Her editor joins us this week to discuss working with Mantel on the books.
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Apr 18, 2025
The subtle expression of longing in the 2005 adaptation wasn't meant to be a key moment. Even the director is surprised it took on a life of its own.
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Apr 18, 2025
In a new book, the Broadway photographer Jenny Anderson captures the craft and camaraderie of making theater.
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Apr 18, 2025
Pam Muñoz Ryan's "El Niño" combines magical realism, climate fiction and coming-of-age sports tales.
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Apr 18, 2025
Her best-selling romances have made her a new standard-bearer of the genre.
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Apr 17, 2025
He wrote prolifically about various aspects of the arts and popular culture. But he kept his focus on jazz, celebrating its past while worrying about its future.
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Apr 17, 2025
A powerhouse of the genre, she published around 100 short stories and 17 novels, one of which was adapted into the acclaimed film "The Lady Vanishes."
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Apr 17, 2025
In the 1960s and '70s, his leggy femmes fatales beckoned from paperback covers and posters for movies like "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Thunderball."
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Apr 17, 2025
In his personal, engaging new book, "Sorrowful Mysteries," the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring power of the Virgin of Fatima.
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Apr 17, 2025
Readers can decide when "Notes to John," which shows the writer grappling with guilt and vulnerability, is published next week.
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Apr 17, 2025
In his new book, "The Illegals," Shaun Walker studies the Russian agents who worked deep undercover as Americans for decades.
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Apr 17, 2025
She is one of many authors who lost their homes in January. "Surely," she says, "readers would love nothing more than to send their favorite books to their favorite writers."
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Apr 16, 2025
An American who had lived abroad, he sought out books by up-and-coming German writers, while ghostwriting memoirs for rock stars like Paul Stanley.
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Apr 16, 2025
In Sean Hewitt's novel, "Open, Heaven," two isolated boys develop an intense, undefined relationship.
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Apr 16, 2025
Heather McGowan's novel "Friends of the Museum" takes place over a single, chaotic day in the lead-up to a Met-inspired costume gala.
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Apr 16, 2025
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of internationalism and commitment to the common good.
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Apr 16, 2025
Nettie Jones made a splash in 1984 with her shockingly erotic novel "Fish Tales," then fell into obscurity. A new edition has put her back in the spotlight.
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Apr 15, 2025
In "Precious Rubbish," Kayla E. turns to midcentury children's comics to help tell her shattering story.
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Apr 15, 2025
As the founder of Woman's Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished artists who had been ignored.
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Apr 15, 2025
Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru's presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders of his native country.
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Apr 15, 2025
"What's Left," by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.
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Apr 15, 2025
Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.
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Apr 15, 2025
In "The Imagined Life," a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.
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Apr 15, 2025
In "I Seek a Kind Person," Julian Borger tells the riveting story of seven children who escaped wartime Austria thanks to a British newspaper.
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Apr 14, 2025
His work pushed the boundaries of political cartoons, expanding the possibilities of illustration everywhere.
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Apr 14, 2025
"Searches," by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.
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Apr 14, 2025
In "Lower Than the Angels," the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration.
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Apr 14, 2025
"The Proof of My Innocence" starts as a political whodunit but soon expands into a collage of literary genres.
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Apr 14, 2025
Sayaka Murata's novel "Vanishing World" envisions an alternate universe where artificial insemination is the global norm, and sex takes a back seat.
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Apr 13, 2025
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world's savviest and most accomplished political novelist.
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Apr 13, 2025
In the midst of ongoing war and protest, politicians and journalists explore the complexities of Jewish American responses to global and national conflicts.
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Apr 13, 2025
Austin Kelley gently lampoons high-minded magazines and the fragile men who work at them in his debut novel, "The Fact Checker."
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Apr 12, 2025
He wrote extensively about the New York art scene in the 1960s and '70s, then shifted to become a prominent street photographer.
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Apr 12, 2025
Laurent Binet's novel "Perspective(s)" begins with an artist lying dead in a Florentine chapel.
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Apr 11, 2025
To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday's origin. He didn't realize it would turn out to be his "Andy Warhol moment."
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Apr 11, 2025
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Apr 11, 2025
F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece has left an enduring mark on American culture.
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Apr 11, 2025
A mythical lion cub stuck in the modern world must harness the power of stories to save his family and return home.
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Apr 11, 2025
"Poet in the New World" introduces readers to the often overlooked early work of the Polish master Czeslaw Milosz.
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Mar 18, 2025
His "Be Your Own House Plant Expert" and other best-selling manuals were a fixture of British life for half a century. Among his many fans was Margaret Thatcher.
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Mar 18, 2025
"Sunrise on the Reaping," by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original "Hunger Games" novels.
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Mar 18, 2025
"Sunrise on the Reaping," by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original "Hunger Games" novels.
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Mar 18, 2025
In "Changing My Mind," the novelist Julian Barnes presents an argument for the joys of flexibility.
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Mar 18, 2025
Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era's disturbing political realities.
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Mar 18, 2025
In "Abundance," Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson prod fellow liberals to think beyond their despair over Trump's return to power.
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Mar 18, 2025
In the novel "Theft," by the recent Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, three characters navigate messy relationships in 1980s Tanzania.
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Mar 17, 2025
In the memoir "Firstborn," Lauren Christensen writes about losing the daughter she was expecting.
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Mar 17, 2025
The New York Historical honor goes to Randall K. Wilson, whose "A Place Called Yellowstone" chronicles a landscape "capable of bridging ideological divides."
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