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Mon, 22 May 2023 23:58:44 +0000
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Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
Mon, 22 May 2023 10:54:20 +0000
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“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
Mon, 22 May 2023 14:18:12 +0000
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In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
Sun, 21 May 2023 09:00:12 +0000
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Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
Mon, 22 May 2023 09:00:23 +0000
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“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
Sun, 21 May 2023 09:00:07 +0000
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Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
Sat, 20 May 2023 22:30:41 +0000
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The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:33:10 +0000
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Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:58:55 +0000
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Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:16:31 +0000
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:23:53 +0000
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In the hands of skilled novelists, the stories of an heiress, a prime minister and a literary mystery woman are brought to life.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:02:13 +0000
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The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious award.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:04:57 +0000
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How do you explain the democratic process to future voters? Start with these lively picture books and compelling histories.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:02:40 +0000
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Jason Schreier’s “Play Nice” tells the story of Blizzard Entertainment from its fratty, debauched ’90s heyday to the height of its corporate glut.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:02:19 +0000
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The follies of violence and rhetoric in the Vietnam War and World War II have a lot of lessons for the leaders of Israel, Iran and the next American president.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:00:35 +0000
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In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:00:08 +0000
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“I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See You Again.”
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 01:39:51 +0000
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Bob Woodward doesn’t know which story he wants to tell in his latest presidential chronicle.
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:21:20 +0000
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His father, Norman Rockwell, depicted his childhood on covers of The Saturday Evening Post. The worms came later.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:38:44 +0000
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Created by Humans, a company that aims to help writers license their works for use by A.I. companies, has struck a partnership with the Authors Guild.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:26:34 +0000
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She survived Auschwitz, wrote a best-selling memoir, “Lily’s Promise,” and spoke to a following of 2 million fans on TikTok.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 19:11:49 +0000
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Otherworldly creatures, apocalyptic environments, serial killers, zombies and more haunt these suspenseful comic books and graphic novels.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:03:00 +0000
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As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the pantheon, our critic asks: Is greatness overrated?
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:02:50 +0000
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Cécile Desprairies’s novel, ‘The Propagandist,’ was also inspired by her mother, who made art and slogans for Vichy France and its Nazi leaders.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:00:56 +0000
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In “Selling Sexy,” two veteran fashion journalists examine how Victoria’s Secret fell from grace.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:00:34 +0000
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In this family saga, a floundering lawyer must tap into her supernatural heritage to help her family in the past and present.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:40:39 +0000
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The book, “War,” lays bare just how frustrated the president has become with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the war in Gaza began.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:42:32 +0000
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The journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that Donald J. Trump had spoken to Vladimir V. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office. Multiple sources say they cannot confirm that report.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:00:06 +0000
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In Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, “Our Evenings,” a Burmese English actor grapples with race and ambition, sexuality and love in a bigoted world.
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:27:56 +0000
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Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:02:34 +0000
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For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:02:04 +0000
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Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:01:27 +0000
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Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:00:31 +0000
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“Comrade Papa” is told from the perspective of two European arrivals to the West African country, nearly a century apart.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:00:14 +0000
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A conversation through books.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:00:02 +0000
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Thousands of books have been publicly challenged and removed from libraries in the past couple of years. Elizabeth Harris, who covers books and the publishing industry for The New York Times, explains how books are being pulled from libraries in a quiet process called weeding. Weeding normally allows librarians to keep collections current, but some lawsuits argue that it has been used instead to remove books for content about racism, sexuality and gender.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 04:03:05 +0000
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In a new memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” Elvis Presley’s daughter and granddaughter take turns exploring a messy legacy.
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:40:11 +0000
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Transported to safe haven in England as a Jewish child in 1938, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in autobiographical fiction like “Other People’s Houses.”
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:03:09 +0000
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A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:00:20 +0000
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In “Diary of a Crisis,” Saul Friedländer takes the violence and upheaval in Israel day by day.
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:00:20 +0000
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An Oct. 7 survival memoir and a chronicle of theft in 1948 grapple with the history of a war-torn region.
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:00:07 +0000
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John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:20:19 +0000
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Once called “probably the funniest and most malicious” of the postmodernists, his books reflected a career-long interest in reimagining folk stories, fairy tales and political myths.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024 20:47:32 +0000
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At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.
Sun, 06 Oct 2024 09:00:25 +0000
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In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.
Sat, 05 Oct 2024 19:18:55 +0000
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Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:04:26 +0000
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Tipped off by the detective Frank Serpico, he wrote an explosive series on police corruption in New York City, sparking an investigation by the Knapp commission.
Sat, 05 Oct 2024 11:50:02 +0000
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Stephen McCauley’s novel about ex-spouses reuniting, in a sense; Jim Shepard’s noir about a fateful hit-and-run.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:45:00 +0000
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The writer discusses her follow-up to her best-selling 2021 novel “The Plot.”
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:19:39 +0000
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Our crime columnist on books by Kate Atkinson, Nicholas Meyer, Marcie R. Rendon and Nilanjana Roy.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:01:56 +0000
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In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:01:45 +0000
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Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:01:23 +0000
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In a comprehensive biography, the historian Dan Jones tries to reconcile the hero of legend with the complicated young monarch of reality.
Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:48:59 +0000
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Your culture and entertainment questions answered by New York Times journalists and experts.