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Mar 19, 2024
Circus tigers, giant spiders, shifting borders and motherhood all threaten to end life as we know it in comics this month.
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Mar 18, 2024
Famed for her fearless literary takedowns, Lauren Oyler adopts a softer tone in the new essay collection "No Judgment."
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Mar 18, 2024
When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.
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Mar 18, 2024
The private musings of Sonny Rollins reveal an artist devoted to the rigors of self-improvement.
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Mar 18, 2024
Even when the Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz worked within mass-market forms, he veered toward playful disorder.
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Mar 18, 2024
"The Divorcées" whisks readers to a ranch in Reno, where unhappy wives once stayed to establish Nevada residency so they could file for divorce.
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Mar 18, 2024
"The Morningside" reckons with climate change and its fallout while finding hope in the stories we preserve.
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Mar 17, 2024
Anna Shechtman's new memoir-history hybrid, "The Riddles of the Sphinx," explores the gender politics behind one of the world's most popular word games.
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Mar 17, 2024
Two new books explore the liberal struggle against the illiberal currents that have plagued American progress.
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Mar 17, 2024
In "The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself," Robin Reames contends that Greek and Roman rhetorical techniques can help us speak — and listen — to one another today.
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Mar 17, 2024
In "With Darkness Came Stars," the photorealist Audrey Flack offers a vivid, gossipy chronicle of her career among some of New York City's most famous artists.
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Mar 16, 2024
A love affair between jurors; reclaiming a classic.
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Mar 16, 2024
In "Jaded," a young lawyer searches for justice after she's sexually assaulted by a colleague.
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Mar 16, 2024
In his book "The New York Game," Kevin Baker tells the origin story of the sport we know today.
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Mar 16, 2024
In "Bad Animals," Sarah Braunstein asks who has the right to tell a story — and whether it's possible to get pulled into one against your will.
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Mar 16, 2024
"On Gaslighting," by the philosophy professor Kate Abramson, explores the psychological phenomenon behind the hashtags.
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Mar 15, 2024
Her lucid memoir, "One Way Back," describes life before, during and after she testified that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in high school.
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Mar 15, 2024
The Times's critic Alissa Wilkinson discusses Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel and Denis Villeneuve's film adaptations.
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Mar 15, 2024
More than a dozen authors, including Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar and Isabella Hammad, have signed a protest letter that announced their withdrawal.
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Mar 15, 2024
If you want to understand the power map of the publishing industry, just look at this event's floor plan.
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Mar 15, 2024
Gertrude Chandler Warner's "The Boxcar Children," celebrating its 100th year, depicts the delights of concocting scrumptious meals.
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Mar 15, 2024
Sierra Greer's debut novel, "Annie Bot," explores questions of misogyny and toxic masculinity by following a pleasure robot that begins to develop her own consciousness.
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Mar 15, 2024
In Armando Lucas Correa's thriller "The Silence in Her Eyes," vision impairment only enhances a young woman's sense of neighborly discord — and danger is in the air.
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Mar 14, 2024
He was prolific and acclaimed, producing novels, journalism, essays, criticism, screenplays and, in a memoir, an account of his path from faith to atheism and back again.
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Mar 14, 2024
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Mar 14, 2024
Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.
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Mar 14, 2024
Sloane Crosley's apartment was robbed. Then her friend died. The only sensible thing to do was write about how it felt — and still feels.
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Mar 14, 2024
The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since "Catch-22." What would top your list?
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Mar 14, 2024
Because we could all use a laugh.
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Mar 14, 2024
Because we could all use a laugh.
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Mar 14, 2024
Men's personal narratives are dissected; women's are "dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir," says the author of "The Light Room: On Art and Care." Her 2012 "Heroines" has just been reissued.
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Mar 13, 2024
In "Glad to the Brink of Fear," James Marcus frames the great Transcendentalist as a writer for our times.
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Mar 13, 2024
A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
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Mar 13, 2024
In "Soldiers and Kings," the anthropologist Jason De León interviews smugglers, arguing that they are victims of poverty and violence, even as they exploit the humans in their care.
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Mar 13, 2024
The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the city that lives and breathes today.
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Mar 12, 2024
An Israeli writer's essay about seeking common ground with Palestinians led to the resignation of at least 10 staff members at Guernica.
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Mar 12, 2024
A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
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Mar 12, 2024
In "Devout," an author who grew up in the evangelical church recounts her struggle to find spiritual and psychological well-being after a mental health challenge.
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Mar 12, 2024
Colin Barrett's first novel, "Wild Houses," follows young, desperate characters in small-town Ireland.
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Mar 12, 2024
In her elegant essay collection, "Lessons for Survival," Emily Raboteau confronts climate collapse, societal breakdown and the Covid pandemic while trying to raise children in a responsible way.
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Mar 12, 2024
In "Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution," the historian Jane Kamensky presents a raw personal — and cultural — history.
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Mar 12, 2024
When the writer built a dream home for his family, he forgot to include one important thing: a place to write. So he found an unconventional solution.
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Mar 12, 2024
Vinson Cunningham's impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate.
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Mar 11, 2024
Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.
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Mar 11, 2024
Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin's "Brooklyn," a new thriller by Tana French and more.
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Mar 11, 2024
Playing the professional Irishman, he returned from Limerick to New York where he tended bar and appeared in soap operas and, with his family, scattered "Angela's Ashes."
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Mar 11, 2024
Percival Everett's new novel amends Mark Twain's classic tale with the enslaved sidekick, Jim, at its center.
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Mar 11, 2024
Nicolas Mathieu's novel "Connemara" illuminates a clash of values and visions in contemporary France.
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Mar 10, 2024
Colum McCann and Diane Foley, James's mother, came together to question one of his kidnappers and write a book that delves into the lives of both men.
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Mar 10, 2024
"Until August" is a "rediscovered" novel that the Colombian master wrote as his memory began failing.
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Mar 10, 2024
A brief volume of Elspeth Barker's writings shows off the late novelist's ability to soothe, shock and find the humor in dark moments.
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Mar 10, 2024
In "The Trading Game," Gary Stevenson spills secrets of the City.
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Mar 09, 2024
After writing memorable character sketches and fine-tuning others' copy at The New Yorker, he spent two decades as editor in chief of The Atlantic Monthly.
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Mar 09, 2024
Her winsome animal characters and their comic adventures expressed universal truths and feelings, rendered in a naïve and often surrealistic style.
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Mar 09, 2024
A chilly marriage; a catatonic protagonist.
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Mar 09, 2024
In "The Extinction of Irena Rey," a writer goes missing and her translators give pursuit — until things get weird.
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Mar 09, 2024
In "How to Win an Information War," Peter Pomerantsev looks to a World War II propagandist for lessons in the battle between Russia and Ukraine.
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Mar 09, 2024
Geraldine DeRuiter's "If You Can't Take the Heat" expands on her viral, award-winning blog posts.
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Mar 09, 2024
In Andrew Boryga's debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories of tragedy.
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Mar 08, 2024
A scathing satire about race, publishing and identity politics, Everett's acclaimed 2001 novel is the basis of the Oscar-nominated movie "American Fiction."
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Mar 08, 2024
Terese Svoboda considers what's worth protecting in a new novel and a story collection.
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Mar 08, 2024
What we think is a question of age may be a matter of style.
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Mar 08, 2024
Britain's youngest code-breakers, brought to life in a new nonfiction book by Candace Fleming, were normal teenagers: playing pranks, attending dances.
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Mar 08, 2024
New books by Bora Chung, Rafael Frumkin and Laird Hunt explore the chaotic intricacies of being alive.
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Mar 08, 2024
Using clever camera methods, a new photo book illuminates how honeybees see plants and flowers.
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Mar 08, 2024
A vibrant cast narrates "North Woods," Daniel Mason's lyrical saga about the various inhabitants of a single home in Massachusetts, from the founding of this country to the present day.
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Mar 08, 2024
His popular manga inspired numerous television, film and video game adaptations, reaching fans far beyond Japan's borders.
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Mar 07, 2024
The award, one of the most distinguished in the field of American history, honors "scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation."
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Mar 07, 2024
Lyz Lenz's memoir, "This American Ex-Wife," is one of several best-selling autobiographies that lift the veil on imperfect marriages.
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Mar 07, 2024
James Kaplan's new book, "3 Shades of Blue," examines the lives of Miles, John Coltrane and Bill Evans, and the extraordinary album they made.
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Mar 07, 2024
In "The Unclaimed," the sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans tell four stories of dying alone — and living — in America.
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Mar 07, 2024
Some familiar San Franciscans turn up in the British countryside in "Mona of the Manor," which the author vows is the 10th, and last, in the series: "That has a nice symmetry."
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Mar 06, 2024
In his eighth book, the best-selling author Cal Newport offers life hacks for producing high-quality work while working less.
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Mar 06, 2024
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson delivers a riveting interpretation of the Bible's first book.
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Mar 06, 2024
The publication of "Until August" adds an surprising twist to his legacy, and may stir questions about posthumous releases that contradict a writer's directives.
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Mar 05, 2024
She linked her passion for the natural environment to the precepts of the Hebrew Bible, beginning with the Garden of Eden.
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Mar 05, 2024
Authors Equity is tiny but has big industry names behind it. Its founders hope their profit-sharing approach and experience will entice authors.
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Mar 05, 2024
In her new novel, "The Great Divide," Cristina Henríquez tells the story of the forgotten lives behind the construction of the engineering marvel that cut a path between continents.
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Mar 05, 2024
"Tell," by Jonathan Buckley, is a missing-person mystery recounted in fragmentary anecdotes.
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Mar 05, 2024
In a chronicle laced with memoir, Nancy A. Nichols explores how the automobile has provided both freedom and dangers for female motorists.
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Mar 05, 2024
Chronicling the high-heeled path to drag-queen superstardom, the new memoir also reveals a celebrity infatuated with his sense of a special destiny.
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Mar 05, 2024
Rachel Lyon's novel "Fruit of the Dead" updates the Greek myth with a pharma tycoon who lures an aimless slacker to his private island.
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Mar 04, 2024
The star, whose show "RuPaul's Drag Race" has an international following, is one of the founders of a new online bookstore promoting underrepresented authors. The giveaways are part of its outreach.
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Mar 04, 2024
After a career of framing the country's past through the myths that inspire Americans to fight, kill and make money, Richard Slotkin wants to find a gentler story.
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Mar 04, 2024
In her novel "Say Hello to My Little Friend," Jennine Capó Crucet explores existential questions of isolation and belonging through two unlikely figures.
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Mar 04, 2024
In Helen Oyeyemi's "Parasol Against the Axe," a woman's trip to Prague becomes a meta-narrative about connection with art, people and more.
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Mar 04, 2024
In "Anita de Monte Laughs Last," by Xochitl Gonzalez, two Latina women working a decade apart fight to break out in the New York art scene.
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Mar 04, 2024
A devastating diagnosis prompted a reporter to revisit his past — and repair its mistakes.
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Mar 03, 2024
In his thoroughly researched "Radiant," Brad Gooch considers the short, blazing life of the '80s artist, activist and man about downtown.
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Mar 03, 2024
"Change," Édouard Louis's latest work of autofiction, retraces his trajectory from abject poverty to life as a cultured Parisian.
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Mar 03, 2024
"Your Absence Is Darkness," a novel by the Icelandic writer Jon Kalman Stefansson, is a complex history prompted by one man's quest.
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Mar 02, 2024
In "The Witch of New York," Alex Hortis revisits a Staten Island case that helped usher in a lurid new era of journalism.
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Mar 02, 2024
In "Double Click," the writer Carol Kino explores the pioneering glamour of a famous fashion-photography pair.
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Mar 02, 2024
Molly recommends a novel about a scornful teenager and a collection of interviews about a difficult filmmaker.
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Mar 02, 2024
"The Hunter," set in western Ireland, is a sequel to 2020's "The Searcher."
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Mar 01, 2024
The novelist talks about his new book, "Wandering Stars," which offers a view of Native American history through one character's family story.
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Mar 01, 2024
Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts" chronicles how China's history shaped her family. But first, she had to tackle some basics.
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Mar 01, 2024
"Louder Than Hunger" joins a very small shelf of novels and memoirs that address eating disorders from a male point of view.
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Mar 01, 2024
Three new books look at the tensions — left, center, right and further right — in the Democratic and Republican parties.
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Mar 01, 2024
In the audiobook oral history "Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,'" a cast of dozens fondly revisits a now-classic film.
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