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Mar 07, 2021
"Last Call," by Elon Green, retraces the murders of four men by a serial killer in the 1990s, at a time when gay men felt pressured to hide their sexuality and were often the victims of homophobia.
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Mar 06, 2021
"Infinite Country," by Patricia Engel, follows a mixed-status exodus across the American border.
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Mar 06, 2021
In "Oh My Gods!" by Stephanie Cooke, Insha Fitzpatrick and Juliana Moon, the new girl gets to sit at the cool kids' table. (Her father is Zeus.)
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Mar 06, 2021
Unbeknown to them, a spoiled girl and an enslaved boy share an immutable connection in Laura Amy Schlitz's "Amber & Clay."
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Mar 05, 2021
For the first time in more than a century, the society is adding new spots for members, with a diverse group of cultural figures.
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Mar 05, 2021
Radhika Jones discusses Ishiguro's "Klara and the Sun," and Mark Harris talks about "Mike Nichols: A Life."
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Mar 05, 2021
This week's crime fiction column includes SJ Bennett's new novel, "The Windsor Knot," in which the monarch investigates a murder at Windsor Castle.
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Mar 05, 2021
Her seminal works brought scholarship to the field and helped develop appreciation for it as a creative art form.
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Mar 05, 2021
An excerpt from "Infinite Country," by Patricia Engel
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Mar 05, 2021
When the revolutionary writer arrived in New York City, he slammed headfirst into a scandal.
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Mar 05, 2021
In "Count Down," Shanna Swan tells a story of declining sperm count, rising infertility and the possible extinction of the human species.
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Mar 05, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Mar 05, 2021
"Infinite Country," by Patricia Engel, follows a mixed-status exodus across the American border.
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Mar 05, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Mar 04, 2021
Stephen Kearse talks about the groundbreaking writer and offers a guide to reading her work.
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Mar 04, 2021
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 04, 2021
Alexandra Andrews's debut novel follows a Machiavellian aspiring writer who becomes entangled in her work for a best-selling fiction writer.
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Mar 04, 2021
Though the two forms remain distinct, today's rising stars in both genres are creating a shared literary ideal that gives voice to the Black and brown experience.
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Mar 04, 2021
When pandemic New York seemed at its most surreal, the park, with its abundant wildlife and familiar progression of the seasons, offered a vision of normal life to a book critic who wandered it daily.
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Mar 04, 2021
The beloved author's most famous books, like "Green Eggs and Ham," were untouched, but his estate's decision nevertheless prompted a backlash and raised questions about what should be preserved as part of the cultural record.
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Mar 04, 2021
Carl Phillips turns loss into more than another sad song, into sorrow, which feels heavier and seems to matter more.
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Mar 04, 2021
The author of "The Sum of Us" did not want her new best seller to look like a book that was only intended for one kind of reader.
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Mar 04, 2021
"She's such a compassionate describer of her characters with all their flaws."
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Mar 03, 2021
Named to the top job in 2018, her resignation follows a handful of personnel changes at literary publications.
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Mar 03, 2021
The magician explains how he worked up to "In & Of Itself" in a new memoir, "Amoralman," a prequel of sorts to the show.
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Mar 03, 2021
Three new essay collections survey the range of anxieties that befall us today.
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Mar 03, 2021
BRZRKR, a new comic book created and co-written by the actor, has a character who looks a lot like him. It's also receiving high orders from comic-book shops.
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Mar 03, 2021
Alexandra Andrews's debut novel follows a Machiavellian aspiring writer who becomes entangled in her work for a best-selling fiction writer.
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Mar 02, 2021
Emily Mortimer, who grew up with a prominent free-speech advocate before becoming an actress and screenwriter, has some ideas.
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Mar 02, 2021
She was known for two book series centered on complex female characters, and for stories that illuminated her native North Carolina.
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Mar 02, 2021
Though Nella Larsen's classic 1929 novel is understood to be a tragedy, it also exposes race to be something of a farce.
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Mar 02, 2021
With the novel "Khalil," the former Algerian Army officer who writes as Yasmina Khadra examines the roots of radicalization.
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Mar 02, 2021
New audiobooks from Ibram X. Kendi, George Saunders, Charles Yu and more.
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Mar 02, 2021
In their new book, the journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes recount how Biden's campaign overcame a number of moments when its chances were nearly sunk.
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Mar 02, 2021
The company that oversees the children's author's estate said that the titles contained depictions of groups that were "hurtful and wrong."
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Mar 02, 2021
Stephen King's new novel, "Later," is something of a hybrid of genres: part detective tale, part thriller, with a horror story filling in the seams.
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Mar 02, 2021
An excerpt from "The Committed," by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Mar 02, 2021
From beans and baking projects to vegan and global recipes, the year's best sellers show the ways home kitchens pivoted, and what may lie ahead.
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Mar 02, 2021
In "Foregone," by Russell Banks, an aging filmmaker reveals to his wife and the world secrets about his past.
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Mar 02, 2021
"Black Buck," "The Bad Muslim Discount," "Abundance" and "The Scapegoat" feature characters navigating the hustle and mysteries of American life.
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Mar 02, 2021
Jamie Figueroa's debut novel, "Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer," is a ghost story set in the tropics, centered on a broken family traumatized by foreign forces.
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Mar 02, 2021
In "The Devil You Know," Charles M. Blow argues for a Great Migration in reverse, so that Black people can exercise political power across the South.
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Mar 02, 2021
"Burnt Sugar," a debut novel by Avni Doshi, depicts a particularly intense mother-daughter relationship — from the tormented daughter's point of view.
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Mar 02, 2021
Séverine Autessere's "The Frontlines of Peace" is a biting account of the humanitarian aid industry by a worker who was on the ground.
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Mar 02, 2021
A selection of recent poetry of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Mar 02, 2021
"An I-Novel," by the Japanese writer Minae Mizumura, posed unusual challenges for the English-language translator.
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Mar 02, 2021
In "Amoralman," the sleight-of-hand artist Derek DelGaudio turns to philosophy in an attempt to understand the nature of reality and deception.
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Mar 02, 2021
Three new books by investigative journalists tackle unsavory and dangerous spheres of human activity.
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Mar 02, 2021
In her new novel, Naima Coster shows how integration sparks a connection that lasts for generations.
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Mar 02, 2021
"The Barbizon," by Paulina Bren, tells the story of New York's most celebrated all-female hotel and the aspiring writers, actresses and working women who stayed there.
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Mar 01, 2021
In "Under a White Sky," Elizabeth Kolbert explores the human efforts to confront the effects of climate change, and all their unintended consequences.
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Mar 01, 2021
An Ivy League-trained lawyer, he rose to prominence in the 1990s by examining the tensions that surround Black achievement and wealth.
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Mar 01, 2021
In her memoir, Sherry Turkle evokes her childhood in postwar Brooklyn, the intellectual atmosphere at Radcliffe and Harvard in the late 1960s and much more.
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Mar 01, 2021
Federico Moccia, the Italian writer likened to Nicholas Sparks and John Green, is releasing his Rome Novels in English for the first time.
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Mar 01, 2021
Tired of winter? All three of these novels are guaranteed to give you a different kind of chill.
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Feb 27, 2021
What's with all the female literary characters who can't stand themselves?
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Feb 27, 2021
What's with all the female literary characters who can't stand themselves?
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Feb 27, 2021
With echoes of Narnia, David Levithan's "The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S." flips the script on traditional portal fiction.
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Feb 27, 2021
"Latinitas," by Juliet Menéndez, introduces young readers to 40 Latina trailblazers, from the 17th century to the present, as children at play.
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Feb 26, 2021
In her new novel, "The Smash-Up," Ali Benjamin takes readers on an exhilarating ride through a crisis propelled by real-life events.
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Feb 26, 2021
The archive of the Book Review is rich with fun and games.
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Feb 26, 2021
Oyler discusses her debut novel, "Fake Accounts," and Stephen Kearse talks about the work of Octavia Butler.
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Feb 26, 2021
As the publication celebrates its 125th anniversary, Parul Sehgal, a staff critic and former editor at the Book Review, delves into the archives to critically examine its legacy in full.
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Feb 26, 2021
An excerpt from a new book that examines the vibrant life, and untimely death, of Glenn Burke, baseball's first openly gay player.
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Feb 26, 2021
Sherry Turkle is best known for exploring the dysfunctional relationships between humans and their screens. She takes on a new focus — herself — in her memoir, "The Empathy Diaries."
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Feb 26, 2021
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Feb 26, 2021
In these novels, bodies disappear, swallowed by sinkholes and forests.
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Feb 26, 2021
In "The Committed," a follow-up to "The Sympathizer," Viet Thanh Nguyen's nameless spy navigates a Paris underworld rife with drug deals, violence and colonialism's ghosts.
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Feb 26, 2021
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Feb 26, 2021
Fossils, flowers, galaxies and a rare "lefty" snail.
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Feb 25, 2021
A retelling of "The Great Gatsby," a healer fighting for her freedom and more: Here are 13 upcoming Y.A. titles you won't want to miss this spring.
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Feb 25, 2021
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Feb 25, 2021
The merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster has the potential to touch every part of the industry, including how much authors get paid and how bookstores are run.
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Feb 25, 2021
A poem that makes you wonder: How is it a flag can divide and unite a people?
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Feb 25, 2021
In "Four Lost Cities," Annalee Newitz explores the fates of four cities lost to time to better understand what leads urban environments to decay.
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Feb 25, 2021
Alex Dimitrov's third collection, "Love and Other Poems," delivers a burst of energy and a happy reminder of Frank O'Hara's work.
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Feb 25, 2021
Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade collaborated on "We Are Water Protectors." The rest is history.
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Feb 25, 2021
"I don't remember the last time the pages of a book were not the final thing I saw before departing off for sleep."
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Feb 24, 2021
Maria Stepanova's "In Memory of Memory" looks to the lives of her ancestors, and celebrates their very "ordinariness."
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Feb 24, 2021
"He told me I was filth," Galia Oz writes in her book, "Something Disguised as Love," among other accusations of physical and emotional abuse. Her mother and siblings have defended their late father.
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Feb 24, 2021
In Jaap Robben's "Summer Brother," a 13-year-old finds himself the default caregiver for his severely disabled brother. His dad's a swindler. The bills are due. Disaster is inevitable.
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Feb 24, 2021
A psychology book by a Nobel Prize-winning author has become a must-read in front offices. It is changing the sport.
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Feb 24, 2021
Long-awaited novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, Imbolo Mbue and Viet Thanh Nguyen, a publishing-house caper, Stephen King's latest and more.
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Feb 24, 2021
"Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us," by Joseph Andras, revisits a thorny episode in the Algerian war of independence.
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Feb 24, 2021
The playwright David Ives reviews Hermione Lee's latest biography, "Tom Stoppard," which meticulously recounts an extraordinary life.
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Feb 23, 2021
Heather McGhee's compassionate but cleareyed book argues that divide-and-conquer tactics have left all Americans worse off.
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Feb 23, 2021
"Klara and the Sun," the eighth novel by the Nobel laureate, portrays a near future of sinister portent, in which artificial intelligence has encroached on every sphere of human existence.
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Feb 23, 2021
An unapologetic proponent of "poetry as insurgent art," he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights.
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Feb 23, 2021
"State of Terror," set for release in October, is about a secretary of state confronting terrorism threats and a weakened nation.
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Feb 23, 2021
In "Flight of the Diamond Smugglers," Matthew Gavin Frank details the surprising role pigeons play in South African diamond smuggling.
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Feb 23, 2021
An excerpt from "The Smash-Up," by Ali Benjamin
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Feb 23, 2021
With his new novel, the Nobel Prize-winner reaffirms himself as our most profound observer of human fragility in the technological era.
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Feb 23, 2021
In her new novel, "The Smash-Up," Ali Benjamin takes readers on an exhilarating ride through a crisis propelled by real-life events.
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Feb 23, 2021
"Tangled Up in Blue," by Rosa Brooks, and "We Own This City," by Justin Fenton, take readers inside two police forces (in Washington and Baltimore) to examine a complicated culture.
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Feb 23, 2021
New books look at what it was like to be in the Roman military 2,000 years ago and in the American military today.
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Feb 23, 2021
"Raceless," by Georgina Lawton, and "Surviving The White Gaze," by Rebecca Carroll, follow two Black women who discover their racial identity after a childhood separated from their heritage.
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Feb 23, 2021
In "Two Truths and a Lie," "Confident Women" and "The Officer's Daughter," readers feel the aftershocks of felonies and malfeasances.
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Feb 23, 2021
The protagonist of Jack Livings's novel, "The Blizzard Party," recalls the late-1970s blowout bash in an Upper West Side penthouse that marked her and her family forever.
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Feb 23, 2021
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Feb 23, 2021
"The Bone Fire," by Gyorgy Dragoman, follows a 13-year-old girl as she navigates political upheaval and an uncanny world.
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