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Jul 26, 2024
She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.
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Jul 26, 2024
Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller mixes glamour, betrayal, self-invention and murder. What's not to love?
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Jul 26, 2024
Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, "The Yellow Bus," took him in a different direction — one that required time, patience and toothpicks.
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Jul 26, 2024
"Tree. Table. Book" and "Not Nothing" feature young people whose friendships with the very old unlock fading memories.
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Jul 26, 2024
Our columnist reviews July's horror releases.
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Jul 26, 2024
Born into a patrician family, he used Harper's and later his own Lapham's Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.
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Jul 25, 2024
"It's nice to work with faculty without that inbuilt prejudice against genre," says the author of "I Was a Teenage Slasher." "Or, I'm a little bit tall, so it's tricky to look down your nose at me."
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Jul 24, 2024
Born into a patrician family, he used Harper's and later his own Lapham's Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.
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Jul 24, 2024
She was, she said, unable to cook a basic meal into her mid-20s. But she went on to a successful career as a restaurateur and an authority on Asian cuisine.
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Jul 24, 2024
The author of humorous short stories finds emotional connections in tales that engage with tech. But he's more interested in the ties between humans.
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Jul 24, 2024
"The Secret Lives of Numbers," by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell, highlights overlooked contributions to the field by ancient thinkers, non-Westerners and women.
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Jul 24, 2024
The group worked for decades to build the profile of the genre and its writers. Now romance fiction is booming — but the R.W.A. has filed for bankruptcy. What happened?
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Jul 24, 2024
Colorful primers, inspirational biographies and books by former champions will get kids excited for the Paris Games — and teach valuable lessons along the way.
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Jul 24, 2024
In "A Hunger to Kill," the former homicide detective Kim Mager recalls a career-defining investigation.
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Jul 24, 2024
Misery makes for good company in Shalom Auslander's second memoir, which finds him self-deprecating, drug-dabbling, envious and, oy, middle-aged.
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Jul 23, 2024
He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.
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Jul 23, 2024
Camila Sosa Villada, an Argentine transgender author, first inhabited a female voice in stories she wrote as a child. Now her novels are translated in more than 20 languages and being adapted for the screen.
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Jul 23, 2024
Bibliophiles and film fans leafed through hundreds of books that once belonged to the eminent editor Robert Gottlieb.
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Jul 23, 2024
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's fiction debut, "Catalina," brings readers into the life and struggles of a blue-collar brainiac from Ecuador.
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Jul 23, 2024
A true-crime case that could only happen in Florida is at the heart of Mikita Brottman's "Guilty Creatures."
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Jul 23, 2024
In the memoir "Desperately Seeking Something," Susan Seidelman's life is as full of twists, charm and happy endings as one of her iconic movies.
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Jul 23, 2024
The aggrieved wife who narrates Sarah Manguso's novel "Liars" may or may not be a reliable source about her monster of a husband.
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Jul 23, 2024
In "The Quiet Damage," Jesselyn Cook traces the effects of the conspiracy theory on the spouses, children and siblings of believers.
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Jul 22, 2024
The first in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our "Best Books of the 21st Century" list.
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Jul 22, 2024
The simple pleasures keep coming in this keenly observed collection by the Argentinian writer Hebe Uhart.
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Jul 22, 2024
A new book by Susannah Gibson spotlights the 18th-century Bluestockings, who aspired to have their writings and ideas accorded the same respect as men's.
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Jul 22, 2024
As a comic book series to honor the Turtles' 40th anniversary debuts, here's a look back at their milestones.
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Jul 21, 2024
Our crime columnist on four new novels.
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Jul 21, 2024
Harry Crews, Barry Hannah and Larry Brown were part of a Southern writers' movement that centered dissidents and outsiders. They're still worth reading.
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Jul 20, 2024
Elizabeth Stromme's noir about a writer for hire; Karen Tei Yamashita's magic realist dystopia.
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Jul 20, 2024
A partial lexicon of modern Republicanism.
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Jul 20, 2024
In "Autocracy, Inc.," the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes account of the financial institutions and trade deals that have helped spread tyranny across the world.
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Jul 20, 2024
Clare Pollard's novel "The Modern Fairies" reanimates 25 classic tales through a contemporary lens.
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Jul 20, 2024
Immerse yourself in tales of Machiavellian statecraft, Depression-era scandal and emotional turmoil on an R.A.F. air base.
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Jul 20, 2024
Immerse yourself in tales of Machiavellian statecraft, Depression-era scandal and emotional turmoil on an R.A.F. air base.
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Jul 19, 2024
The novelist discusses his latest book, "The Bright Sword," in which Arthur has died but Excalibur lives on with a band of misfit knights.
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Jul 19, 2024
In a new memoir, the marine biologist Jasmin Graham reflects on her passion for studying sharks and the barriers she refused to let stop her.
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Jul 19, 2024
Bruce Handy, Lisk Feng and Cat Min present shadows for what they are: the non-nefarious interplay of light and dark.
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Jul 19, 2024
Three new books document obstacles to gender equality that, in the era that brought us #MeToo, Taylor Swift and the ‘girlboss,' we thought we'd left behind.
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Jul 18, 2024
Even before the Republican vice-presidential nominee aligned himself with Donald Trump, contradiction was central to his rags-to-riches biography.
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Jul 18, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jul 18, 2024
What if the star of "The Matrix" worked with a sci-fi novelist to tell the story of an 80,000-year-old warrior who can rip people's arms off but struggles with loneliness?
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Jul 18, 2024
Alexander Lefebvre's new book is a ‘call to action about what we are trying to defend, and why,' says the head of PEN America, which has been pummeled with disputes about speech, activism and Israel.
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Jul 17, 2024
In "Women in the Valley of the Kings," Kathleen Sheppard introduces us to a group of 19th-century archaeologists who changed the field forever.
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Jul 17, 2024
These stories of relationship dramas and evolving partnerships will fill the "Couples Therapy"-sized hole in your life with wisdom, schadenfreude and humor — and sometimes all of the above.
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Jul 17, 2024
These stories of relationship dramas and evolving partnerships will fill the "Couples Therapy"-sized hole in your life with wisdom, schadenfreude and humor — and sometimes all of the above.
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Jul 17, 2024
They wanted to know where the poetry and the genre fiction were — and they also wanted to let us know which books were missing.
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Jul 17, 2024
An unlovable heroine, a cyborg in search of missing parts, the restoration of a classic work and a series that is always worth the wait highlight four new volumes.
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Jul 16, 2024
"Revolution is the job of poets and artists," says Ko Maung Saungkha, leader of a rebel militia fighting the Myanmar dictatorship. He is not the only poet commander in a country with a strong tradition of political verse.
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Jul 16, 2024
"Revolution is the job of poets and artists," says Ko Maung Saungkha, leader of a rebel militia fighting the Myanmar dictatorship. He is not the only poet commander in a country with a strong tradition of political verse.
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Jul 16, 2024
In Lev Grossman's new book, "The Bright Sword," an eager adventurer stumbles into a Camelot that has fallen into hopelessness and disarray after the death of the king.
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Jul 16, 2024
Our critic talks to Edward P. Jones about how he imagined "The Known World," recently voted the best work of fiction by an American writer in the 21st century.
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Jul 16, 2024
Jesse Katz's true-crime narrative, "The Rent Collectors," delivers a nuanced portrait of a community racked by poverty and violence and deprived of opportunities to get ahead.
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Jul 16, 2024
Two exuberant new books chronicle the heyday of New York City's criminal underworld on the Lower East Side.
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Jul 16, 2024
In Halle Butler's new book, "Banal Nightmare," a 30-something woman returns to her hometown to get out of a rut and reassess her life after a bad breakup.
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Jul 16, 2024
Set among the fevered residents of a remote Australian town, Ruby Todd's debut novel considers how grief can draw people to extreme beliefs.
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Jul 15, 2024
Our columnist on three riveting new reads.
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Jul 15, 2024
Our critic traces J.D. Vance's shift from bootstrap memoirist to vice-presidential candidate.
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Jul 15, 2024
Peter Schjeldahl's final book collects the essays and reviews he wrote in the years after a cancer diagnosis.
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Jul 15, 2024
The good news: Our "Best Books of the 21st Century" list showed surprising affection for works in translation. But where are Sally Rooney, Ayad Akhtar and others "explaining how we live now"?
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Jul 15, 2024
In "Rat City," Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden explore the life, times and influence of the scientific Pied Piper, John Bumpass Calhoun.
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Jul 15, 2024
On a family tour of Greece, the writer followed the small footsteps of some of ancient mythology's biggest fans.
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Jul 14, 2024
In a new telling of the Macedonian leader's final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality.
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Jul 14, 2024
Alisa Alering's debut novel, "Smothermoss," is an Appalachian mystery tangled with wild magic, queer coming-of-age and sisterly bonds.
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Jul 13, 2024
A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.
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Jul 13, 2024
The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, "Someone Like Us."
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Jul 13, 2024
In Stephen Graham Jones's new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge.
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Jul 12, 2024
A roundtable of Book Review editors discuss what surprised them, what delighted them, what will send them back to their own shelves.
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Jul 12, 2024
She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary.
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Jul 12, 2024
The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.
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Jul 12, 2024
Sometimes we forget that moving is not just about goodbyes. It's also about hellos.
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Jul 12, 2024
In his picaresque memoir, "My Glorious Defeats," the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.
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Jul 12, 2024
The pseudonymous Italian author has become a worldwide phenomenon. But speculation about who she really is has followed her for years.
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Jul 12, 2024
Dwight Garner writes that voters, who "seemed to want a break from contemporary social reportage," looked for immersive reads.
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Jul 11, 2024
A journalist and author, he helped write a revisionist account of Rudolph Giuliani's role as mayor before and after the terrorist attacks.
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Jul 11, 2024
Arthur, the former publisher of Knopf, is joining Hachette Book Group to start and run a new imprint.
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Jul 11, 2024
In Yasmin Zaher's "The Coin," a rich, chic Palestinian schoolteacher in New York City grapples with displacement and American consumerism.
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Jul 11, 2024
Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became "The Heart in Winter" was "dead on the page," he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center "suddenly appeared to me."
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Jul 11, 2024
Some of their favorites didn't make our "Best Books of the 21st Century" list — but they make a case for them anyway.
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Jul 10, 2024
In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately "protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity."
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Jul 10, 2024
Her writing, about marriage and divorce, sex and its consequences, work-life balance, the challenges of child-rearing and other topics, still resonates today.
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Jul 10, 2024
Henry Hoke's 2023 novel, "Open Throat," narrated by an animal in peril in the Hollywood Hills, is adapted for a staged reading.
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Jul 10, 2024
Kevin Barry's new novel follows a fugitive couple from Butte, Mont., in the late 19th century.
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Jul 10, 2024
In her most recent book, "The Backyard Bird Chronicles," the best-selling author revels in a newfound preoccupation with birds — and drawing.
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Jul 10, 2024
Prague has survived wars and political strife — and through it all, its literary scene has thrived. Jaroslav Kalfar, the author of "Spaceman of Bohemia," recommends books that connect readers to the city.
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Jul 09, 2024
Admirers said they were "blindsided" by revelations that Munro's youngest daughter had been abused by her stepfather — and that Munro stayed with him even after she learned of it years later.
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Jul 09, 2024
Stacey D'Erasmo's exploration of sustained creativity, "The Long Run," is poignant, exhilarating and full of wise advice from lives well lived.
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Jul 09, 2024
In "The Anthropologists," Aysegul Savas celebrates the "unremarkable grace" of a couple's ordinary days. It's enchanting.
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Jul 09, 2024
Todgers, vampires and celebrity book clubs: It's been quite a ride.
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Jul 08, 2024
With "Husbands & Lovers," Beatriz Williams delivers a multigenerational yarn and a memorable ending.
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Jul 07, 2024
An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands "to take over their unions and change them."
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Jul 07, 2024
Andrea Skinner said in the Toronto Star that her stepfather sexually abused her at age 9, and that her mother stayed with him after she learned of it.
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Jul 07, 2024
"Long Island Compromise," the new novel by the author of "Fleishman Is in Trouble," fictionalizes a true story.
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Jul 07, 2024
Bookstores once shunted romance novels to a shelf in the back. But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country.
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Jul 06, 2024
His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends' deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.
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Jul 06, 2024
A philandering father; a literary affair.
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Jul 06, 2024
The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.
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Jul 06, 2024
Laura van den Berg's new book, "State of Paradise," sends readers down surreal portals to ask: How do we distinguish reality from its opposite — whatever that might be?
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Jul 05, 2024
Starting on July 8, we'll unveil a list of 100. Make sure you're among the first to find out.
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Jul 05, 2024
In "Private Revolutions," Yuan Yang follows the lives of women in a rapidly changing modern superpower.
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