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Looking for a Book to Read With Your Family?
Elisabeth Egan//30 views
Group Text “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” will spark lively conversation among people who have run out of things to say. Welcome to Group Text, a mo...
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The Wildly Funny Samantha Irby Is Back, Not a Moment Too Soon
Parul Sehgal//38 views/1 comments
Books of The Times It’s been 20 years since Anthony Bourdain published his best-selling memoir “Kitchen Confidential,” with its solemn warning: Never order fish...
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‘August,’ by Callan Wink: An Excerpt
Mary Jarvis//33 views
August flew back to Michigan for Thanksgiving. It was his first time on an airplane, and even though he tried to be nonchalant about it, he held his breath duri...
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‘Sharks in the Time of Saviors,’ by Kawai Strong Washburn: An Excerpt
Steven Baker//26 views
When I close my eyes we’re all still alive and it becomes obvious then what the gods want from us. The myth people tell about us might start on that liquid blue...
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Tomie dePaola, ‘Strega Nona’ Author and Illustrator, Dies at 85
Iliana Magra, Julia Carmel//43 views
Mr. dePaola wrote or illustrated more than 270 books, notably the beloved stories of a “grandma witch” with an eternally full pasta pot. Tomie dePaola, the cele...
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Martin, Malcolm and the Fight for Equality
Annette Gordon-Reed//36 views
nonfiction THE SWORD AND THE SHIELDThe Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.By Peniel E. Joseph What an era that could see the rise to nat...
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New & Noteworthy Poetry Books
Steven Baker//29 views
DEEP GOSSIP: New and Selected Poems, by Sidney Wade. (Johns Hopkins University, paper, $19.95.) With short lines and sly, syncopated rhymes, Wade’s nature poems...
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What Wins in the Heartland, Machismo or Intellect?
Austin Considine//35 views
Fiction AUGUST By Callan Wink America has always had an uncomfortable relationship with its intellectuals — there’s no shortage of evidence lately that hostilit...
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A Botanist’s Desire Turns Toxic in This Novel of Romantic Obsession
Olivia Sudjic//33 views
Fiction HEX By Rebecca Dinerstein Knight Nell Barber is an expelled biology Ph.D. candidate. Her alma mater, Columbia, banished all six members of her lab group...
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A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty
Julian Lucas//43 views
fiction HURRICANE SEASONBy Fernanda Melchor The Witch, they say, is loaded, with bullion concealed amid the trash of her squalid estate, itself a misbegotten in...
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‘Emergency’ Online Library Draws Ire of Some Authors
Alexandra Alter//28 views
Internet Archive has made 1.4 million books available free online, which some say hurts writers and advances a harmful “copyright ideology.” It was initially pr...
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Finding Comfort in the Classics
Elisabeth Egan, Tina Jordan//45 views
Editors and writers on the Books desk — along with colleagues from the newsroom — recommend some time-tested books that offer escape from the present moment. So...
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Penguin Classics and Others Work to Diversify Offerings From the Canon
Concepción de León//40 views
Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history. When the playwright and filmmaker ...
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The Hawaii of ‘Sharks in the Time of Saviors’ Is Modern, Yet Mystical
Imbolo Mbue//32 views/2 comments
Fiction SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS By Kawai Strong Washburn There once was a time when places had no names. A time when no separation existed between our for...
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Ann Patchett on Why We Need Life-Changing Books Right Now
Ann Patchett//37 views/3 comments
Essay Here’s how it happened: In early November 2018, Kate DiCamillo came to Nashville while she was on tour for her novel “Louisiana’s Way Home.” It’s the midd...