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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
The first lady's memoir arrives just ahead of her multicity arena tour.
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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
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
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
In these books, writers tell complex wartime stories that do not end after the soldiers come home.
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Nov 13, 2018
"The Mini Bar," a new book set from the website Punch, offers recipes categorized by wine or spirit.
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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
In a tribute comic, 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
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
Five new books touch on American Jewish identity and what will sustain it into the future.
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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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 02, 2018
We invite you to take a look at this year's winners ...
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Apr 24, 2018
Amazon limited reviews of the book to readers who have purchased it on its site.
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Apr 24, 2018
The artist, on his response to the migrant crisis: "In China we say, ‘When birds pass over the sky...' I'm just one of the birds who made some sounds."
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Apr 24, 2018
Two new books, "The Space Barons" and "Rocket Billionaires," tell the story of the entrepreneurial push to leave Earth.
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Apr 24, 2018
Amy Chozick's "Chasing Hillary" describes the impossibility of covering the two Clinton presidential campaigns.
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Apr 23, 2018
Kushner's gritty and persuasive book about a woman sentenced to life in prison recalls works by Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson and Charles Bukowski.
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Apr 23, 2018
Two new novels — "If We Had Known," by Elise Juska, and "How to Be Safe," by Tom McAllister — imagine communities roiled by mass murder.
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Apr 23, 2018
Amal El-Mohtar looks at new retellings of ancient tales, including a space opera, a futuristic "King Lear," and an eco-thriller.
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Apr 23, 2018
Olivia Jaimes, the latest cartoonist and first woman to draw "Nancy," has brought earbuds, Snapchat filters and apps into the venerable character's world.
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Apr 23, 2018
In "The Recovering," the novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison explores her own alcoholism and the struggle to make art out of giving up drinking.
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Apr 23, 2018
The colorful Italian fashion house has published an equally vibrant cookbook by the son of its creative director.
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Apr 23, 2018
The sociologist Manuel Pastor explores the rise, fall and rise again of America's most populous state.
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Apr 23, 2018
Lawrence Wright's "God Save Texas" is a loving and skeptical portrait of the place he calls home.
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Apr 22, 2018
Mr. Pitol won the prestigious Cervantes Prize for a body of work that blended genres. King Juan Carlos I of Spain said it "seduced us with the truth."
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Apr 21, 2018
Tapper's debut novel, "The Hellfire Club," a historical thriller set in 1950s Washington, has some unsettling parallels to today's political climate.
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Apr 21, 2018
A tartan kilt, fishing rod and dragon pendant were among items auctioned recently by the poet's daughter, Frieda Hughes.
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Apr 21, 2018
The first novel by the CNN anchor is about a new congressman with secrets, and it includes a parade of high-profile political cameos.
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Apr 20, 2018
News in style books, answering a reader's questions about trends and remembering the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh.
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Apr 20, 2018
Ecology, eccentricity, celebrity, policy: Urban living brings it all together.
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Apr 20, 2018
James Shapiro discusses Nesbo's new novel, and Leila Slimani talks about "The Perfect Nanny."
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Apr 20, 2018
A look at how Citizens United and a network of plutocrats have shaped the country's politics.
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Apr 20, 2018
In her new book, "Fascism: A Warning," the former secretary of state finds the seeds of authoritarian rule in social, political and economic chaos.
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Apr 20, 2018
She may care for a veritable menagerie, but Lisa Scottoline still writes three books a year, including the just-published thriller "After Anna."
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Apr 20, 2018
The Harvard geneticist David Reich details his groundbreaking research into ancient DNA in "Who We Are and How We Got Here."
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Apr 20, 2018
The heroine of Wendell Steavenson's novel, "Paris Metro," hoping to find safety for her Iraqi stepson in France, encounters danger instead.
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Apr 20, 2018
"The Bible of Dirty Jokes," by Eileen Pollack, tracks a middle-aged woman's quest to find her lost brother and her own independence.
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Apr 20, 2018
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Apr 20, 2018
In Aminatta Forna's novel "Happiness," an American biologist and a Ghanaian psychiatrist find common ground among the urban dispossessed.
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Apr 20, 2018
In "Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World," Miles J. Unger follows the painter's early career, culminating in "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."
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Apr 20, 2018
John Lewis Gaddis's "On Grand Strategy" is a study of global thinking at the highest levels.
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Apr 20, 2018
When the author of "Murder on the Orient Express" rode that very train on a journey toward true love.
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Apr 20, 2018
In which we consult the Book Review's past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Edwin Clark on "The Great Gatsby."
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Apr 20, 2018
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Apr 19, 2018
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Apr 19, 2018
This generation's Doctor Spock popularized the swaddle and simple techniques for soothing infants. Why is he now selling a $1,160 robotic bassinet?
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Apr 19, 2018
The Instagram poet's besties include Katy Perry, Reese Witherspoon and Senator Cory Booker. "I consider him family," Ms. Wade said.
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Apr 19, 2018
Sloane Crosley's third collection, "Look Alive Out There," blends deep pathos with the author's signature humor.
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Apr 19, 2018
One's the U.S. poet laureate. The other is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Can they bring literature to the masses?
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Apr 19, 2018
The former F.B.I. director has made the rounds this week, offering his take on what "ethical leadership" means. If we're going by appearances, it's a lot like the movies.
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Apr 18, 2018
The deliciousness of the details in Elaine Weiss's new book suggests that certain historical figures warrant entire novels of their own.
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Apr 18, 2018
Besides the journalism prizes, the committee awarded five Pulitzers to books this week. Here are our reviews.
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Apr 18, 2018
The globe-trotting cosmopolitans in Michelle de Kretser's satirical new novel, "The Life to Come," make a fetish of travel and prepare exotic meals with an eye to Instagram.
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Apr 18, 2018
In his funny, bighearted new novel, "Anatomy of a Miracle," Jonathan Miles skewers faith, fame and what the truth means to different people.
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Apr 18, 2018
The historian and critic, whom the biennale's president called "a maestro," will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
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Apr 18, 2018
The author of "The Looming Tower" and "Going Clear" captures the Lone Star State in all its shame and glory.
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Apr 16, 2018
The Norwegian crime writer turns Shakespeare's tragedy into a fast-paced thriller about murder and corruption in 1970s Glasgow.
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Apr 13, 2018
When James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and author of "A Higher Loyalty," reads fiction, it's "almost always something my kids are reading, so I can … pretend to be cool."
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Feb 27, 2018
Thank you for your service, Marie Kondo. Meet Eiko. In her new book, a mega-seller in Japan, this yoga teacher says even the stiffest people can do the splits.
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Feb 27, 2018
In "Blue Dreams," the psychologist Lauren Slater explores the intersection of personality and chemistry by way of her own history with antidepressants.
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Feb 27, 2018
The activist and former N.B.A. player tries to encourage athletes to become socially conscious in his book, "Why We Matter: Athletes and Activism."
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Feb 27, 2018
Mrs. Clinton's lecture will cap off a week of events dedicated to the theme "Resist and Reimagine," which will feature more than 165 writers.
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Feb 27, 2018
In his memoir, "The Line Becomes a River," Francisco Cantú argues that he needed to be a Border Patrol agent to understand immigration.
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Feb 27, 2018
In "Conspiracy," Ryan Holiday describes the blockbuster case that killed Gawker.
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Feb 27, 2018
"Daphne," by Will Boast, poses the universal human question of whether it is better to feel pain or to feel nothing at all.
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