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Apr 23, 2024
In "Rebel Girl," the punk frontwoman reveals the story of her life — the men who tried to stop her, the women who kept her going and the boy who made her a mother.
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Apr 23, 2024
As described by Gabriel Brownstein, the basis for one of Freud's most famous cases posed as many questions as it answered.
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Apr 23, 2024
"Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other," the author's new collection, ranges from a playful one-act drama set in a lake to short fiction rife with apocalyptic anxiety.
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Apr 23, 2024
Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare's Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it.
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Apr 23, 2024
In "The Whole Staggering Mystery," Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent's past, and finds more than she bargained for.
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Apr 23, 2024
"Lucky" features a 1970s singer-songwriter who finds improbable success.
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Apr 22, 2024
The event had been set for April 29, but weeks of escalating criticism of the organization's response to the war had led nearly half of the prize nominees to withdraw.
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Apr 22, 2024
The editor and essayist Joseph Epstein looks back on his life and career in two new books.
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Apr 22, 2024
How Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver reimagined classic works by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
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Apr 22, 2024
Creators will spotlight Blondie in the comic strip, as she brings someone on board for her catering business.
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Apr 22, 2024
In "The Rulebreaker," Susan Page pays tribute to a pioneering journalist who survived being both a punchline and an icon.
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Apr 22, 2024
Prison, pregnancies and other operatic turns propel Caroline Leavitt's latest book, "Days of Wonder."
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Apr 21, 2024
Focusing on disaster hasn't changed the planet's trajectory. Will a more upbeat approach show a way forward?
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Apr 21, 2024
Slim and precious, "Somehow: Thoughts on Love" doesn't measure up to her best nonfiction.
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Apr 21, 2024
Justin Taylor's novel "Reboot" examines the convergence of entertainment, online arcana and conspiracy theory.
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Apr 20, 2024
A stroll around the city with a great stylist; a comic novel of love and real estate.
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Apr 20, 2024
In "The Paris Novel," Ruth Reichl is a glutton for wish fulfillment.
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Apr 20, 2024
In "Habsburgs on the Rio Grande," Raymond Jonas's story of French-backed nation building in Mexico foreshadows the proxy battles of the Cold War.
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Apr 19, 2024
Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.
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Apr 19, 2024
In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers.
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Apr 19, 2024
Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection.
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Apr 19, 2024
Harvard's recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world.
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Apr 19, 2024
Three books describe the work of government investigators who want to uncover or bury the truth.
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Apr 19, 2024
Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany's buried history.
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Apr 19, 2024
A new photo book reorients dusty notions of a classic American pastime.
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Apr 19, 2024
Two hundred years after his death, this Romantic poet is still worth reading.
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Apr 18, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 18, 2024
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham's former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic "Music for New Bodies."
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Apr 18, 2024
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Apr 18, 2024
"I don't want other people to miss out on the wisdom and joy this genre has to offer, the way I did for so long," says the best-selling novelist. "Funny Story," about a heartsore librarian and the new man in her life, is out next week.
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Apr 18, 2024
"I don't want other people to miss out on the wisdom and joy this genre has to offer, the way I did for so long," says the best-selling novelist. "Funny Story," about a heartsore librarian and the new man in her life, is out next week.
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Apr 18, 2024
The author of nine suspense books also finds time to foster kittens from a Chicago-area shelter.
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Apr 18, 2024
The author, known for her "Persepolis" series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini.
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Apr 18, 2024
In "The Sorrow Apartments," Andrea Cohen's signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the ending that seems to be coming.
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Apr 17, 2024
In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women bikers.
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Apr 17, 2024
Three decades after his death, his work is still sold on products and in stores. But his concept of public art is most powerfully preserved on the street.
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Apr 17, 2024
The author of the best-selling book series said she had been undergoing treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, after a diagnosis in 2022.
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Apr 17, 2024
A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country's small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the publishing industry in ways both big and small.
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Apr 17, 2024
"In the Shadow of Liberty," by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America's often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.
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Apr 17, 2024
Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There's no telling where you'll find the next story in Accra, Ghana's capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.
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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
Our columnist on three new psychological thrillers.
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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
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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