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Sep 24, 2018
In "The Field of Blood," Joanne Freeman documents the outlandish violence in Washington as the country was heading toward the deadliest American war.
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Sep 24, 2018
Olivia Laing's first novel features a protagonist who bears a strong resemblance to the writer and performance artist Kathy Acker.
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Sep 24, 2018
With Book 6 of "My Struggle," the famous Norwegian author completes the saga of his life — a work perfectly suited to the age of the blog.
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Sep 23, 2018
In "Who Is Michael Ovitz?," the ex-leader of the powerful talent agency C.A.A. recounts his time at the top.
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Sep 22, 2018
"She Would Be King" reframes the country's history in magical terms.
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Sep 22, 2018
A nearly century-old bookstore in Germany is staying afloat by joining forces with the butcher, the baker … no word yet from the candlestick maker.
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Sep 21, 2018
In advance of the publication of Mrs. Obama's memoir, "Becoming," Live Nation, Ticketmaster and Hearst are helping with the former first lady's rock-star-style return to the public sphere.
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Sep 21, 2018
In advance of the publication of Mrs. Obama's memoir, "Becoming," Live Nation, Ticketmaster and Hearst are helping with the former first lady's rock-star-style return to the public sphere.
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Sep 21, 2018
"It's paramount for me to always be changing gears and shifting and trying something new," says Ms. Edugyan.
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Sep 21, 2018
Joana Avillez illustrates an homage to the legendary children's book editor and her personal correspondence.
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Sep 21, 2018
After Robert B. Parker died, Reed Coleman took over writing his Jesse Stone mystery series, bringing his vivid, distinctive style but staying true to Parker's characters.
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Sep 21, 2018
In her latest novel, Katharine Weber depicts the relationship between a quadriplegic architect and his monkey helper.
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Sep 21, 2018
In her latest novel, Katharine Weber depicts the relationship between a quadriplegic architect and his monkey helper.
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Sep 21, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Sep 21, 2018
Three books, including Michael Bible's "Empire of Light," feature directionless male youths attempting to find a way forward.
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Sep 21, 2018
Ashleigh Young's debut collection, "Can You Tolerate This?," uses allegories of womanhood and writing as a window onto the human condition.
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Sep 21, 2018
Nell Stevens's "The Victorian and the Romantic" tells of her obsession with Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Sep 21, 2018
Jacqueline Woodson, Kate DiCamillo and Meg Medina tell empowering stories about vulnerable kids.
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Sep 21, 2018
Iris Origo's war diary, "A Chill in the Air," reports on how Italians viewed the Mussolini regime.
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Sep 21, 2018
Iris Origo's war diary, "A Chill in the Air," reports on how Italians viewed the Mussolini regime.
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Sep 21, 2018
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Sep 21, 2018
Hanya Yanagihara's best-selling novel includes many disturbing scenes. In a new production in Amsterdam, the director Ivo van Hove puts that cruelty center stage.
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Sep 20, 2018
What happened when the novelist Lawrence Osborne agreed to write a book in the voice of Raymond Chandler's iconic gumshoe.
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Sep 20, 2018
A new book looks back on two decades of the artist's installations, which use man-made materials to explore the natural world.
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Sep 20, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 20, 2018
The six books in the running for one of the world's major literary awards includes a novel written in verse. Two American authors made the cut.
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Sep 20, 2018
The six books in the running for one of the world's major literary awards includes a novel written in verse. Two American authors made the cut.
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Sep 20, 2018
Contenders for the literary prize include novels by Richard Powers and Rachel Kushner, suggesting that a debate about Americans dominating the prize will continue.
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Sep 20, 2018
The hotels offer would-be bons vivants and lovers of 19th-century French literature the kind of lodgings that recall the raconteur-filled salons in the novels of Honore de Balzac.
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Sep 20, 2018
All romance novels have happy endings. How they get there, though, is a lot more interesting when the protagonists must grapple with personal shortcomings.
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Sep 20, 2018
The actor and author of the new book "Whiskey in a Teacup" wishes she had five days in a cabin just to read, with "no emails, no text messages and no obligations or deadlines."
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Sep 20, 2018
With the 2018 prize postponed by scandal, The Times's staff book critics discuss the award's history and influence — and whom they would give it to this year if they could.
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Sep 19, 2018
On the list: the original "Jaws."
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Sep 19, 2018
In "Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy," Anne Boyd Rioux seeks to restore a classic to its proper place.
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Sep 19, 2018
The editor, Ian Buruma, left as the magazine faced a backlash after publishing an essay by a Canadian radio personality who lost his job and reputation following sexual misconduct allegations.
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Sep 19, 2018
In "Dear America," Jose Antonio Vargas writes about the precarious life he has built in the United States as an undocumented immigrant.
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Sep 19, 2018
Mr. Trump's presidency has proved to be an unexpected boon for the publishing industry, which has unleashed a barrage of juicy insider accounts.
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Sep 19, 2018
In a timely new book, "The Schoolhouse Gate," the University of Chicago law professor Justin Driver traces the influence of our highest court on schools and classrooms.
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Sep 18, 2018
Mr. Trump's presidency has proved to be an unexpected boon for the publishing industry, which has unleashed a barrage of juicy insider accounts.
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Sep 18, 2018
Mr. Trump's presidency has proved to be an unexpected boon for the publishing industry, which has unleashed a barrage of juicy insider accounts.
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Sep 18, 2018
In "Essayism," Brian Dillon rhapsodizes over his favorite practitioners of the form, including Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Montaigne.
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Sep 18, 2018
Two new books, Sarah Weinman's "The Real Lolita" and T. Greenwood's "Rust and Stardust," revisit the story of Sally Horner's 1948 abduction.
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Sep 18, 2018
He worked on his magnum opus, an encyclopedia of Iranian history and culture, for more than 40 years, retiring at the letter "K." The work goes on.
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Sep 18, 2018
Interlinked story collections provide narrative continuity, while allowing you to take a pause.
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Sep 18, 2018
In the fourth book by Galbraith (also known as J.K. Rowling) featuring the detective Cormoran Strike, the mystery revolves around a well-connected, once-rich, greedy and backstabbing family.
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Sep 18, 2018
Though the traumatic events of Field's childhood permeate almost every page, they do not define her.
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Sep 17, 2018
An investigative journalist, he was best known for "In God's Name," a best seller that claimed that Pope John Paul I was murdered in a Vatican plot.
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Sep 17, 2018
A look at "The Ghost Script," the last of Feiffer's trio of noir graphic novels, alongside Hartley Lin's charming "Young Frances."
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Sep 17, 2018
In Lisa Margonelli's "Underbug," she focuses on the extraordinary capabilities of the termite and what the insect can teach us about ourselves.
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Sep 17, 2018
Mimi Swartz's "Ticker" tells the story of the doctors who, against all odds, struggled to make a device to replace one of our most vital organs.
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Sep 17, 2018
The Supreme Court justice has two new children's books adapted from her memoir. She recently spoke in Brooklyn to an appreciative crowd with many Hispanic and Latino families.
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Sep 17, 2018
When Mr. Shan first brought his storytelling to radio in 1980, an estimated 100 million people tuned in.
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Sep 17, 2018
Vital writing and interesting ideas are buried in this endurance test of a novel, which includes a 400-page section about Hitler in addition to Knausgaard's usual autobiographical musings.
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Sep 17, 2018
A new guidebook to the borough's mom-and-pop food businesses is a trip down memory lane.
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Sep 17, 2018
In his new book, the neuroscientist Eric Kandel explores the science of unusual brains, locating many of his answers in genetics.
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Sep 17, 2018
In Esi Edugyan's daringly imagined new novel, "Washington Black," a slave boy and his master's brother flee a plantation in a flying contraption and forge an unlikely bond.
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Sep 17, 2018
In the long-awaited final volume of his epic novel, the author confronts the central mystery of autobiographical fiction.
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Sep 16, 2018
Set in 1940 and 1950, Atkinson's latest novel is about a young typist plucked from virtually nowhere and taken into the world of spies.
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Sep 16, 2018
After writing a shelf of books mining forgotten incidents and obscure lives, the Harvard scholar and New Yorker writer offers history on a grand scale.
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Sep 16, 2018
After writing a shelf of books mining forgotten incidents and obscure lives, the Harvard scholar and New Yorker writer offers history on a grand scale.
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Sep 16, 2018
After writing a shelf of books mining forgotten incidents and obscure lives, the Harvard scholar and New Yorker writer offers history on a grand scale.
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Sep 16, 2018
The author of the Cormoran Strike mystery series has a new book out this month, "Lethal White."
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Sep 15, 2018
After a scoffed-at but successful pop ethnography of Park Avenue, she turns to the topic of infidelity.
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Sep 14, 2018
"The culture I grew up in is a very individualistic one, but for understandable reasons," says Sarah Smarsh.
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Sep 14, 2018
An investigative journalist, he was best known for "In God's Name," a best seller that claimed Pope John Paul I was murdered in a Vatican plot.
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Sep 14, 2018
Michele Gelfand's "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers" takes a look at the differences in various human societies and chalks them up to how strictly they follow norms.
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Sep 14, 2018
Corey Brettschneider's "The Oath and the Office" offers advice to presidents on their constitutional duties.
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Sep 14, 2018
Alice Mattison's "Conscience" traces the damaging effect of a novel based on the real lives of three people involved in radical politics.
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Sep 14, 2018
Jill Lepore's "These Truths" shows both the successes and failures that have made the country what it is today.
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Sep 14, 2018
Dan Kaufman's "The Fall of Wisconsin" traces how a state that was a liberal bastion came to vote for Donald Trump in 2016.
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Sep 14, 2018
Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Leadership in Turbulent Times" looks at Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
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Sep 14, 2018
David Levering Lewis's "The Improbable Wendell Willkie" describes a political shooting star who left an outsize legacy.
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Sep 14, 2018
Three new books explore the concepts of liberalism, democracy and nationalism.
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Sep 14, 2018
Eric Klinenberg's "Palaces for the People" explores the civic value of social infrastructure, those public spaces that allow for human connection.
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Sep 14, 2018
Three new books explore the concepts of liberalism, democracy and nationalism.
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Sep 14, 2018
Immigrants, artists and inventors imagine liberation in gorgeous new books by Yuyi Morales, Il Sung Na, Juan Felipe Herrera and more.
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Sep 14, 2018
Marilyn Stasio's mystery roundup takes readers to World War I Britain and France, then dips into two psychological combat zones in modern America.
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Sep 14, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Sep 14, 2018
Hints of her wildlife research — particularly the study of brown hyenas — can be seen in her debut novel, "Where the Crawdads Sing."
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Sep 14, 2018
Miriam Pawel's "The Browns of California" describes a political dynasty that has dominated the state across 60 years.
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Sep 14, 2018
Illustrated by Dan Williams, "Sea Prayer" relates a message of universal human despair, but also hope.
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Sep 14, 2018
In which we consult the Book Review's past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Elizabeth Janeway on Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita."
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Sep 13, 2018
In "America: The Farewell Tour," Chris Hedges says the end is near.
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Sep 13, 2018
Alcott's book was that unusual thing, a classic that is also an instant hit. It was also revolutionary then — and even now.
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Sep 13, 2018
Suggested reading by critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Sep 13, 2018
In Nicole Holofcener's movie, Ben Mendelsohn plays a sad Connecticut dad who blows up his life in the pursuit of something he can't quite name.
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Sep 13, 2018
The journalist, whose new book is "Fear: Trump in the White House," remembers reading "The Swiss Family Robinson" as a child: "It was, I believe, the first time I dropped out of my own world into another for a sustained period of time."
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Sep 12, 2018
Her nursing skills gave her the perfect cover for espionage. She later produced a thrilling memoir that Winston Churchill couldn't put down.
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Sep 12, 2018
This book promises to be the latest, and perhaps juiciest, Trump tell-all to hit stores.
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Sep 12, 2018
In "One Person, No Vote," Carol Anderson argues that Republican legislatures and governors have systematically blocked minority voters at the polls.
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Sep 12, 2018
Allan J. Lichtman's "The Embattled Vote in America" looks at how some Americans have tried to restrict the vote of other Americans.
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Sep 12, 2018
The author of "Speak," one of the first Y.A. novels to focus on sexual violence, said fiction gives teenagers a language to describe the trauma.
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Sep 12, 2018
Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" continue to be controversial even today.
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Sep 11, 2018
Memoirs by Tina Fey and Nell Scovell show Leslie Moonves is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Sep 11, 2018
Jason Stanley's "How Fascism Works" sees parallels in the appeals the president makes to his base.
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Sep 11, 2018
In the elegant, readable and sobering "These Truths," Lepore starts with Columbus's arrival and wends her way through the next five centuries.
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Sep 11, 2018
In a new memoir, the actress reveals a personal history, darkened by abuse and illuminated by grace, that she has never shared before.
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Sep 11, 2018
It's a love story about the possibilities and perils of power, corruption and moral compromise in a democratic government.
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Sep 11, 2018
Fictional and autobiographical tales that span the vast range of the educator's spirit.
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Sep 11, 2018
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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