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The Suffering and Scientific Legacy of a Large Family Consumed by Schizophrenia
Jennifer Szalai//43 views/2 comments
Books of The Times Donald Galvin was a sophomore at Colorado State when he first checked into the campus health clinic to get treated for a cat bite, offering n...
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A Box of Secrets Led to the Story of Her Father’s Painful Wartime Past
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim//36 views/3 comments
nonfiction WHEN TIME STOPPED A Memoir of My Father’s War and What RemainsBy Ariana Neumann Growing up as the child of a wealthy Czech-born industrialist in Cara...
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No Fan of Sports, a Graphic Novelist Learns to Follow the Bouncing Ball
Jerry Craft//30 views/1 comments
Children’s Books Like “American Born Chinese” — his groundbreaking 2006 Y.A. debut, and the first graphic novel to be a finalist for the National Book Award — G...
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How a College Final Became a Lesson in Survival
Daniel Mason//29 views
Essay Back in January, at Stanford University, where I teach and practice psychiatry, I showed my students a slide of an oak tree from the edge of campus. At fi...
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They Were Meant to Be the Season’s Big Books. Then the Virus Struck.
Alexandra Alter//37 views
With stores temporarily shut down and other industry disruptions, some of the most anticipated titles of the spring are being pushed back to later in the year. ...
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From the Archives: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin
Frederick Hernandez//27 views
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen During the coronavirus crisis, we’ve been going back to our archives — but we’re getting very close to rec...
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A 12-Year-Old Gymnast Heals After a Coach’s Sexual Abuse
Laura Tucker//25 views/1 comments
Children’s Books In Kate Messner’s resonant, necessary CHIRP (Bloomsbury, 227 pp., $16.99; ages 8 to 12), 12-year-old Mia is on the mend — from a broken arm, af...
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Curious George, the Wild Things, and Frog and Toad Get an Update
Ward Sutton//37 views/2 comments
Sketchbook Seeing some of our childhood favorites in a brand-new, contemporary light. Ward Sutton is a cartoonist and illustrator. He was awarded the 2018 Herbl...
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In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings
Sandra Simonds//23 views/1 comments
THE ABSURD MAN Poems By Major Jackson 104 pp. Norton. $26.95. In one of these poems, set at a bar in New York City, the speaker’s grown son asks him how he coul...
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New in Paperback: ‘Savage Feast’ and ‘The Bird King’
Tina Jordan//37 views
SAVAGE FEAST: Three Generations, Two Continents and a Dinner Table (A Memoir With Recipes), by Boris Fishman. (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins, 368 pp., $17.99.)...
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Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives
Steven Baker//39 views
This week, Lorrie Moore discusses her life as a reader in By the Book. In 1985, Moore wrote for the Book Review about “Galápagos,” Kurt Vonnegut’s novel about a...
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Letters to the Editor
Frederick Hernandez//27 views/1 comments
To the Editor: I love “Chinatown,” and am excited to read “The Big Goodbye,” Sam Wasson’s book about it. However, I can assure Mark Horowitz that the “brillianc...
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Woody Allen’s New Memoir Is Sometimes Funny — and Tone Deaf and Banal
Dwight Garner//38 views
Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. During the Cuban missile crisis, the writ...
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Desperately Seeking Hope and Help for Your Nerves? Try Reading ‘Hope and Help for Your Nerves’
Hillary Kelly//42 views/2 comments
Claire Weekes, a pioneer in treating anxiety, offered simple and soothing advice that has come to influence much of our approach to panic. I felt the rumblings ...
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11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Frederick Hernandez//35 views/2 comments
Editors’ Choice Are you finding it tough to read right now? Week in and week out, the authors who answer our By the Book questions tell us that their ideal read...