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Jan 29, 2025
One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.
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Jan 29, 2025
His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.
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Jan 29, 2025
A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school choice and voucher programs instead.
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Jan 29, 2025
His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.
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Jan 29, 2025
Our columnist on three spicy new releases.
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Jan 29, 2025
"Superbloom," by Nicholas Carr, and "The Sirens' Call," by the MSNBC host Chris Hayes, argue that we are ill equipped to handle the infinite scroll of the information age.
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Jan 29, 2025
In "Talk," Alison Wood Brooks mines years of data to optimize your conversations.
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Jan 29, 2025
Antonio Di Benedetto's characters are repellent and constantly frustrated. Why are they so captivating?
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Jan 28, 2025
Our columnist on four stellar new releases.
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Jan 28, 2025
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
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Jan 28, 2025
Our columnist on four stellar new releases.
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Jan 28, 2025
In "The Killing Fields of East New York," Stacy Horn profiles one 1990s white-collar crime spree and the wreckage it left behind.
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Jan 27, 2025
Dark Horse Comics announced it would no longer publish the author and canceled further publication of his "Anansi Boys" series.
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Jan 27, 2025
In a new memoir, Hanif Kureishi reflects on a life transformed since he lost the use of his arms and legs.
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Jan 27, 2025
In "A Perfect Frenzy," Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.
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Jan 27, 2025
Our columnist reviews January's new horror titles.
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Jan 27, 2025
Our columnist reviews January's new horror titles.
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Jan 27, 2025
A writer and his daughter wander the ancient city at night, inspired by Joseph Brodsky, the Russian writer who loved the city in its cold, quiet season.
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Jan 26, 2025
Imani Perry's impressionistic "Black in Blues" finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, fashion and more.
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Jan 26, 2025
Charmaine Wilkerson's novel "Good Dirt" weaves together grief, suspense and the story of a jar made by an enslaved potter generations earlier.
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Jan 25, 2025
Joan Aiken's neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth's family epic.
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Jan 25, 2025
Books by Alyssa Cole, Talia Hibbert and more offer heartwarming banter and plenty of heat.
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Jan 25, 2025
Solvej Balle's "On the Calculation of Volume" rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day.
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Jan 25, 2025
In Maggie Su's funny debut novel, a Frankenstein-like monster turns on his flailing creator.
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Jan 24, 2025
His own experience assisting his terminally ill wife in ending her life set him on a path to founding the Hemlock Society and writing a best-selling guide.
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Jan 24, 2025
"Picturing the Border" collects photographs of the United States-Mexico boundary dating back to the 1960s.
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Jan 24, 2025
A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong anchor Burke's new book, "The Note." It started with real life.
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Jan 24, 2025
Clay McLeod Chapman kept hearing friends say, of their Fox News-watching parents, "It's like they were possessed." That's what inspired him to write "Wake Up and Open Your Eyes."
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Jan 24, 2025
For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy's latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the balance.
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Jan 23, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 23, 2025
The spiritual leader of Tibet has published amply but seldom written in depth about politics. Now, as he approaches 90, he shares a detailed and personal account of his decades dealing with China.
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Jan 23, 2025
The novelist is 75. Rusty Sabich, the now-retired prosecutor he introduced in "Presumed Innocent," is 77 — and taking on a new case in "Presumed Guilty."
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Jan 23, 2025
An adaptation of "Fatherland," the best-selling novelist's first solo work, "sets my teeth on edge," he admits. His newest book, "Precipice," is about a former British prime minister in love.
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Jan 23, 2025
In "Bright Circle," Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.
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Jan 22, 2025
A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.
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Jan 22, 2025
Chilly thrillers, snowy fantasies and Alpine adventure novels exquisitely capture the atmosphere of the season.
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Jan 21, 2025
In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, relationships and human nature.
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Jan 21, 2025
Hilary Mantel's "The Mirror and the Light," a new "Bridget Jones" and Michael Bond's Paddington Bear series are some of this year's most anticipated adaptations.
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Jan 21, 2025
In "Dark Laboratory," Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer's conquest of the Caribbean.
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Jan 21, 2025
Mischa Berlinski's shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge of playing Cleopatra.
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Jan 20, 2025
Details are in Caleb Femi's new poetry collection, "The Wickedest."
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Jan 20, 2025
"Somewhere Toward Freedom" tells the story of Sherman's March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.
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Jan 20, 2025
Mike Mignola's "Bowling With Corpses" is full of suspicious shadows and offbeat jokes.
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Jan 19, 2025
In a vibrant collection of "essays on the future that never was," Colette Shade takes a cold look at the cheery promise of the 2000s.
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Jan 19, 2025
Marcus Chown's "A Crack in Everything" is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe.
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Jan 19, 2025
A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region.
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Jan 18, 2025
"The first album I ever bought was ‘Hunky Dory,'" said the actress and author, "and all those songs, every single one, is amazing."
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Jan 18, 2025
Two very different books examine the reigns and legacies of Victoria and Elizabeth II.
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Jan 18, 2025
Mavis Gallant wrote short stories full of brutal humor that examined the hell of other people.
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Jan 17, 2025
The travel writer and essayist discusses his new book, "Aflame," about his stays at a California monastery.
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Jan 17, 2025
In "Farewell to Manzanar," she wrote about the more than three years she and her family spent in a camp for Japanese Americans. It became the basis for a TV movie.
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Jan 17, 2025
With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same.
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Jan 17, 2025
In "Helen of Troy, 1993," the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.
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Jan 17, 2025
In H.M. Bouwman's wise and heartbreaking "Scattergood," the shadow of the Holocaust reaches a farm girl trying to help her ailing friend.
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Jan 17, 2025
The Nobel laureate's new novel, "We Do Not Part," revisits a violent chapter in South Korean history.
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Jan 16, 2025
As a cookbook author, TV personality and mentor, she sought to burst the chicken-fried stereotype of the South. Sometimes her life was as messy as her kitchen.
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Jan 16, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 16, 2025
In "The Harder I Fight the More I Love You," the singer and songwriter outlines the personal and professional challenges that have shaped her career.
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Jan 16, 2025
Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.
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Jan 16, 2025
In his new essay collection, Manuel Betancourt explores the beauty, depth and riches found in brief romantic encounters with unfamiliar people.
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Jan 16, 2025
His new novel is titled after Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons," he says, "given the theme of incomprehension between generations in that book."
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Jan 15, 2025
By day, he helped run an autism center he opened in a suburb of Paris. In the evening, he delighted audiences as a clown named Buffo. In between, he wrote novels.
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Jan 15, 2025
In "Open Socrates," the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.
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Jan 15, 2025
Tom Lamont's debut novel, "Going Home," considers the joys and frustrations of raising a child who is not your own.
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Jan 15, 2025
In a new collection about New York City, the writer turns his gimlet eye on its icons, its architecture, its hot spots — and its suits. "Clothes matter — especially when you get old," he says.
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Jan 14, 2025
"I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone," said the best-selling author in response to allegations in New York magazine.
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Jan 14, 2025
In "The Secret History of the Rape Kit," Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing innovation, and the woman who fought for it.
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Jan 14, 2025
In "What Happened to the McCrays?" middle-aged high school sweethearts share an unbearable history.
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Jan 14, 2025
The novel "A Calamity of Noble Houses" tries to piece together a fateful night that has reverberations for two families across four generations.
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Jan 14, 2025
Grady Hendrix's new novel, "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls," is a timely look at the mistreatment of women, with a dose of horror, monsters and magic.
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Jan 13, 2025
She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
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Jan 13, 2025
A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work.
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Jan 13, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best new releases.
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Jan 13, 2025
Our columnist on the month's best new releases.
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Jan 13, 2025
A powerful new book by the law professor Michelle Adams recounts the failed effort to integrate Detroit's schools and the case's relevance today.
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Jan 13, 2025
A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the chance to finish the work.
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Jan 13, 2025
In John Dufresne's new book, "My Darling Boy," a retired journalist races to rescue his son from the painful grip of opioids.
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Jan 13, 2025
Aria Aber's exciting debut novel finds the daughter of an Afghan refugee sidestepping disapproval and racism as she dives into Berlin's nightworld.
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Jan 12, 2025
He released a thunderclap into the evangelical world by asserting that a deeper reading of the Bible revealed that same-sex relationships are not sinful.
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Jan 12, 2025
After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet.
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Jan 12, 2025
In "The Woman Who Knew Everyone," Meryl Gordon offers a thorough biography of Perle Mesta, Washington's colorful, and oft-mocked, "hostess with the mostes'."
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Jan 12, 2025
In Nnedi Okorafor's new novel, "Death of the Author," a once-struggling writer grapples with power, privilege, agency and art after her book becomes a life-changing hit.
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Jan 11, 2025
Molly recommends Annie Ernaux's photographic record of a love affair and a sociologist's study of the moments when conflict turns violent.
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Jan 11, 2025
MAGA has turned "the administrative state" into a battle cry.
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Jan 11, 2025
Our columnist on the month's most exciting releases.
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Jan 10, 2025
The latest from a Nobel laureate, a "Hunger Games" prequel and more.
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Jan 10, 2025
In "The Sinners All Bow," Kate Winkler Dawson brings a podcaster's instincts to a 19th-century murder.
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Jan 10, 2025
Samrat Upadhyay's new novel, "Darkmotherland," is a sprawling epic in which a natural disaster gives way to an authoritarian takeover.
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Jan 10, 2025
The scion siblings at the center of Sara Sligar's Gothic thriller "Vantage Point" try desperately to outrun the calamity that is their inheritance.
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Jan 09, 2025
When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.
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Jan 09, 2025
When he was 25, he learned that he had multiple sclerosis. He coped with the disease throughout a long career at several networks, recalled in a best-selling memoir.
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Jan 09, 2025
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Jan 09, 2025
Dr. Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, assembled anecdotes from more than 300 people in his book "The Truth in the Light." Here are some of them.
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Jan 09, 2025
He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him, and he realized the phenomenon was real.
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Jan 09, 2025
This unsparingly grim Netflix western draws from a tradition of works eager to push beyond sanitized frontier myths. Here's a supplementary guide.
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Jan 09, 2025
In "We Tried to Tell Y'All," Meredith D. Clark chronicles the heyday of Black Twitter.
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Jan 09, 2025
Caryl Phillips's new novel, "Another Man in the Street," follows an immigrant who arrives in 1960s London.
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Jan 09, 2025
"I'm very comfortable with the level of ambition I have for my books," says the ubiquitous BBC talk show host, who calls "Frankie" his "first happy romance."
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Jan 09, 2025
In a new memoir, Sarah Hoover grapples with the uglier moments that she and her husband, the artist Tom Sachs, have faced while navigating parenthood.
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Jan 08, 2025
When cats bite or scratch, they're trying to tell you something. Wilbourn, a cat therapist, was a pioneer in the art of listening to them.
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