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Nov 18, 2018
In "The Desert and the Sea," Michael Scott Moore recounts his ordeal being held captive by Somali pirates for more than two years.
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Nov 16, 2018
The Pulitzer Prize board said it "did not find evidence warranting removal" of Mr. Díaz after a five-month inquiry into sexual misconduct accusations.
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Nov 16, 2018
A biologist and writer who dared to challenge Soviet pseudoscience, he was declared insane, confined to an institution and stripped of his citizenship.
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Nov 16, 2018
Goldman's legacy would have been assured had he only written screenplays. But he was much more, not least a sharp-witted critic of the industries he knew best.
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Nov 16, 2018
The author of nine acclaimed novels, including "Give Me Your Hand" and "Dare Me," is adapting four (four!) of them for TV.
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Nov 16, 2018
In this excerpt from the introduction to a new edition of Saul Steinberg's 1960 book, "The Labyrinth," the novelist celebrates the artist as a "twirler of nonverbal non sequiturs."
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Nov 16, 2018
Now that my son can read, I want him to seek out books about more than just winning things and getting easy laughs. Why does that seem hard?
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Nov 16, 2018
In new books, Jeffrey Sachs looks beyond exceptionalism, Michael Beckley describes unrivaled power and Robert Kagan favors pragmatic leadership.
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Nov 16, 2018
In "Best of Enemies," Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall tell the story of Jack Platt and Gennady Vasilenko, covert agents who played by their own rules.
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Nov 16, 2018
Gal Beckerman discusses several new books that touch on American Jewish identity, and Kiese Laymon talks about his new memoir, "Heavy."
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Nov 16, 2018
Alyson Hagy's new novel, "Scribe," draws on Appalachian folk tales to fashion a mythic vision of a war-torn country that doubles as an allegory about storytelling.
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Nov 16, 2018
Anita Felicelli's "Love Songs for a Lost Continent" paints the outsider's experience with a surrealist brush, while "Useful Phrases for Immigrants," by May-Lee Chai, finds magic in the quotidian.
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Nov 16, 2018
From a meticulous Japanese sleuth to a rough-edged Irish P.I. to a batch of quintessentially British cops, there's a crime solver here for everyone.
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Nov 16, 2018
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Nov 16, 2018
Sales of novels may be flagging, but nonfiction sales — fed by a seemingly endless stream of political books — are robust.
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Nov 16, 2018
"Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane: Words and Music" showcases her songs, her memoirs and her verse.
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Nov 16, 2018
Work from an acclaimed comic book story about the Holocaust was sold to a foundation wanting to share graphic arts with the public.
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Nov 16, 2018
Both "We Are Not Yet Equal" and "We Say #NeverAgain" shine a spotlight on social justice issues.
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Nov 16, 2018
"My Squirrel Days" is the upbeat tale of Ellie Kemper's hard-won Hollywood career, and "Out of My Mind" relives Alan Arkin's spiritual journey. Both authors recite their own audiobooks.
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Nov 16, 2018
The British actor Richard Armitage delivers a masterly reading of Heather Morris's World War II story, "The Tattooist of Auschwitz."
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Nov 16, 2018
He won Oscars for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men." But his jaundiced view of the movie business was well known.
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Nov 16, 2018
The comic book revolutionary, who died this week, pushed against the trope that women in comics should be only victims or vixens by creating strong female characters with their own agendas.
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Nov 16, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Nov 16, 2018
In "Storm Lake," Art Cullen relates how he took on agricultural polluters and a complicit local government in rural Iowa — and why he became a newspaperman in the first place.
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Nov 16, 2018
In "Destroy All Monsters," by Jeff Jackson, the latest target of violence in America is music.
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Nov 16, 2018
In "Destroy All Monsters," by Jeff Jackson, the latest target of violence in America is music.
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Nov 16, 2018
In Jonathan Lethem's new novel, a young woman unmoored by the 2016 election goes on an adventure involving rival desert gangs, a missing teenager and a private eye with Brillo sideburns.
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Nov 15, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 15, 2018
Steve Kornacki's "The Red and the Blue" traces current political divisions back to the battles between Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton.
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Nov 15, 2018
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Nov 15, 2018
From the fantastical to the natural, these "happy" poetry collections are perfect for readers of all ages.
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Nov 15, 2018
Meredith Koop spent many years in the White House working with the former first lady on her wardrobe. Now she is helping Ms. Obama with the book tour and trying to figure out what comes next.
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Nov 15, 2018
The author, most recently, of the Virgil Flowers novel "Holy Ghost" devotes specific spots to reading: "I like a good light, a good chair and a good book more than anything I can think of, except my wife."
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Nov 15, 2018
Meredith Koop spent many years in the White House working with the former first lady on her wardrobe. Now she is helping her with the book tour and trying to figure out what comes next.
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Nov 14, 2018
The judges called the novel an "exquisitely written and deeply humane exploration of grief." This year also saw the addition of a new category, for translated literature.
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Nov 14, 2018
Justin Phillip Reed's ‘Indecency' Wins for Poetry; Jeffrey C. Stewart's ‘The New Negro' Takes the Nonfiction Prize
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Nov 14, 2018
"I want to give thanks to my ancestors who are the reason I'm here," said Acevedo, who comes from a Dominican family of storytellers.
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Nov 14, 2018
In her speech, she denounced the rise of "nationalism and racism" in our current political discourse.
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Nov 14, 2018
It's a big night for small, independent publishing houses: 10 of the 25 finalists were published by independent presses.
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Nov 14, 2018
Ramabai traveled around India in the 19th century to give lectures on women's emancipation and established one of the country's first women's shelters and schools.
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Nov 14, 2018
Oyinkan Braithwaite's debut novel is about a Nigerian woman who assists her murderous sister in cleaning up crime scenes.
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Nov 14, 2018
Let the earnest acceptance speeches begin!
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Nov 14, 2018
Our comic book reporter looks at how Stan Lee — the character and the person — recurred throughout his life.
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Nov 14, 2018
The late actor delivers the 20th-century author's prose like you've never heard it before.
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Nov 14, 2018
Hear from the firefighters, the residents and the scientists trying to find solutions.
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Nov 14, 2018
The comics writer's new Wonder Woman arc asks if war, and the violence it begets, can ever be just.
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Nov 14, 2018
Julian Castro, the former San Antonio mayor and Obama cabinet member, reviews Ed Morales's new book on the diversity and hybridity of Latino identity.
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Nov 13, 2018
The first lady's memoir arrives just ahead of her multicity arena tour.
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Nov 13, 2018
Andrew Roberts's "Churchill: Walking With Destiny" tells the full story of an extraordinary life.
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Nov 13, 2018
" ‘The Street' is my favorite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot."
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Nov 13, 2018
Filled with food, music and hard toil, selections of the two-time poet laureate's work are brought together in "Monument."
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Nov 13, 2018
Kiese Laymon's memoir, "Heavy," is a son's unflinching portrait of a mother whose violent love and exacting expectations were meant to protect him from harm.
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Nov 12, 2018
A New York University dean and professor, he also advanced his views running for governor and comptroller of New York State and heading think tanks.
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Nov 12, 2018
Brian Michael Bendis reflects on the first time he met Stan Lee and how Mr. Lee inspired him in his two-decade career at Marvel Comics.
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Nov 12, 2018
"The Mini Bar," a new book set from the website Punch, offers recipes categorized by wine or spirit.
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Nov 12, 2018
In "Let It Bang," the African-American journalist RJ Young writes of learning about firearms in order to nurture a connection with his white father-in-law.
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Nov 12, 2018
In "Accessory to War," the astrophysicist offers a history of space exploration and the ways it has been aided and abetted by warfare and its needs.
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Nov 12, 2018
In a new audio series, the actor Nick Offerman explores political, cultural and ecological shifts through the author's palate.
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Nov 12, 2018
Five new books touch on American Jewish identity and what will sustain it into the future.
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Nov 10, 2018
The temporary cancellation of his appearance at a literary festival had been seen as the latest sign of erosions of freedom in Hong Kong.
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Nov 10, 2018
From 1969 to 1995, he tackled two or three books a week, making and breaking literary careers.
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Nov 10, 2018
" ‘The Street' is my favorite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot."
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Nov 09, 2018
The former first lady's memoir is mostly about her childhood in Chicago, her marriage and her time in the White House, but she leaves room for some unequivocal criticism of President Trump.
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Nov 09, 2018
In these books, writers tell complex wartime stories that do not end after the soldiers come home.
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Nov 09, 2018
A Latvian refugee, he helped found Soho Press, a champion of emerging authors, and edited James Baldwin's last novel. His own writing career came later.
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Nov 09, 2018
Katie Kitamura's novel is our November pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, "Now Read This."
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Nov 09, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Nov 09, 2018
In which we consult the Book Review's past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Robert Scholes's on Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar."
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Nov 09, 2018
A cross-cultural romance, a love triangle, a fake relationship and a girl in search of her birth mom in the latest realistic Y.A. fiction.
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Nov 09, 2018
Why do critters feature in so many memorable kids books? Novels by Sharon Creech, Carl Hiaasen and more show once again how animals help us understand the world.
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Nov 09, 2018
The latest from Jon Agee, Matthew Cordell and more present table-turning children, pants-wearing vegetables and even a touch of gastrointestinal humor.
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Nov 09, 2018
David W. Blight talks about "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom," and Bob Spitz talks about "Reagan: An American Journey."
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Nov 09, 2018
Finding and losing, playing and working, caring and staying true — dog books teach us about all those things while tugging at our heartstrings.
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Nov 09, 2018
Beautifully illustrated and closely researched, these books tell fascinating stories about heroes, unsung and otherwise.
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Nov 09, 2018
"The Letter for the King," by the Dutch author Tonke Dragt, gets a new English edition 56 years after it first appeared. It's a straightforward story with buckets of charm on its side.
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Nov 09, 2018
These books for young vehicle lovers have it all: size, strength, speed — even kindness. And a dog.
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Nov 09, 2018
In "Becoming," she talked about suffering a miscarriage, relying on IVF to conceive and the challenges of being the first African-American first lady.
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Nov 09, 2018
Take note, parents! If a kid likes a book, it's almost a guarantee he'll like the sequel. Here are new ones from Jennifer L. Holm, Tim Federle and more.
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Nov 09, 2018
"Tales From the Inner City," by the acclaimed Shaun Tan, uses weird, striking images to tell stories about how we share the earth with creatures.
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Nov 09, 2018
Ben Schott reads and writes in a cozy room decorated like a Georgian-era gentlemen's club. Just don't try to light his fire.
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Nov 09, 2018
Parents are no help at all as the young protagonists in new books by Matt Phelan, Kenneth Oppel and more battle dinosaurs, mutant cats and other foes.
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Nov 09, 2018
The artist Gusti has created a picture book about how he came to embrace the richness of life with his special-needs son. Adults and children alike will be moved by "Mallko and Dad."
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Nov 09, 2018
Knockout illustrations and storytelling elevate inspiring books by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson, Laura Lippman and Kate Samworth and more.
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Nov 09, 2018
The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do the digital elite adore him so?
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Nov 09, 2018
A graphic retelling of the American poet's ascent to stardom.
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Nov 09, 2018
Lessons about war from the American Revolution, the Civil War, medieval Britain and West Africa.
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Nov 09, 2018
A scholar, a World Bank economist teaming up with a novelist, and a fiery young activist attempt to write the next pages of the history of women's rights.
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Nov 09, 2018
A dead soul migrates from person to person in Martin Riker's inventive debut novel, "Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return."
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Nov 09, 2018
Kenji Miyazawa, who died in 1933, was one of Japan's most beloved poets. Now, in "Once and Forever," his magical short stories are available in English.
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Nov 09, 2018
In "The Novel of Ferrara," Giorgio Bassani retrofits his novellas and stories into a sprawling portrait of a community destroyed by historical hatreds.
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Nov 09, 2018
Sisonke Msimang's graceful new memoir reckons with the challenges of figuring out who you are and where you belong when you've grown up all over the world.
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Nov 09, 2018
Andre Dubus III's novel "Gone So Long" sets a dying ex-con on the difficult road to redemption. Will his long-estranged daughter even agree to see him?
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Nov 09, 2018
Women, even dying women, are often judged for putting their own needs first. The main characters in "The Bus on Thursday" and "Craving" know that — and they don't care.
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Nov 09, 2018
These books by the Beastie Boys, Abbi Jacobson and Justin Timberlake are about as far from standard-issue star autobiographies as you can get.
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Nov 08, 2018
Ma Jian, whose new novel "China Dream" is a satire of totalitarianism, accused the venue of "turning a literary festival into a political matter."
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Nov 08, 2018
Most readers haven't noticed or been worried by omitted details or factual mistakes in the book. But is there a greater imperative for novels about the Holocaust to get basic facts correct?
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Nov 08, 2018
"The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956-1963," edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil, includes 14 revelatory letters she wrote to her psychiatrist about the crisis in her marriage.
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Nov 08, 2018
Reassuring and beautiful stories from Grace Lin, Kitty Crowther and more, about kids who conquer nightmares and go off on moonlight adventures.
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Nov 08, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Nov 08, 2018
The author, Fletcher Knebel, who died in 1993, would likely be shocked by how prescient his political thriller was.
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