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New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Los Angeles Graffiti to Korean Art
Frederick Hernandez//33 views
THE CITY BENEATH: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti, by Susan A. Phillips. (Yale University, $50.) From Japanese internees and hobos at the turn of the 20th cen...
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‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s
Jennifer Szalai//42 views/1 comments
Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The steamboat: For many Americans in the ...
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Set in a Notorious Prison, a Novel Probes Iran’s Torturers and Their Victims
Dina Nayeri//31 views/1 comments
fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THEN THE FISH SWALLOWED HIM By Amir Ahmadi Arian “Cr...
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‘The Glass Hotel,’ by Emily St. John Mandel: An Excerpt
Steven Baker//26 views/2 comments
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. 1 Begin at the end: plummeting down the side of the ship in ...
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Woody Allen’s Memoir Is Published
Alexandra Alter, John Williams//31 views/1 comments
Arcade Publishing released “Apropos of Nothing” on Monday. The book had ignited a backlash earlier this month, after its original publisher, Hachette, canceled ...
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‘Mitch, Please!’ Tours Kentucky and Roasts a Senator
Dwight Garner//39 views/2 comments
Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. In times of national crisis, it’s importa...
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Emily St. John Mandel Is Back, With a Ponzi Scheme Instead of a Pandemic
Boris Fishman//37 views
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE GLASS HOTELBy Emily St. John Mandel The success ...
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Home With Your Kids? Writers Want to Help
Concepción de León//44 views/1 comments
Mo Willems, Gene Luen Yang, Amie Kaufman and other authors for young readers are reading their work online and offering drawing tutorials, to help fill our stra...
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Headless Bodies, Faceless Corpses
Marilyn Stasio//43 views
Crime Guido Brunetti, the compassionate police commissario in Donna Leon’s new Venetian mystery, TRACE ELEMENTS (Atlantic Monthly Press, 278 pp., $27), always t...
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Picture Books That Show the World Through a Child’s Eyes
Maria Russo//35 views/1 comments
Children’s Books MY BEST FRIENDWritten by Julie Fogliano Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki Two small girls spend a perfect day together in the park, making chalk dr...
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From the Archives: Robert Caro on How He Does It
Jeremy Zimmerman//37 views/1 comments
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen For the 15 years it’s been around, the Book Review’s podcast has never missed an episode. But during the c...
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Recipe for a Sleepover: Video Games, Junk Food … and an Audiobook?
Jon Mcnaught//30 views/1 comments
Sketchbook An artist remembers a cozy moment from his youth. Jon McNaught is a cartoonist, printmaker and illustrator based in London. “Kingdom,” his latest com...
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A Coke-Snorting Oligarch, a Gangrenous Finger and Other Noir Delights
David Gordon//35 views
fiction LIKE FLIES FROM AFARBy K. FerrariTranslated by Adrian Nathan West 204 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25. Subtlety is not something Ferrari has time for. ...
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How Hitler Transformed a Democracy Into a Tyranny
Nicholas Stargardt//32 views/1 comments
nonfiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. HITLER’S FIRST HUNDRED DAYSWhen Germans Embraced ...
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New in Paperback: ‘On Desperate Ground’ and ‘The Paper Wasp’
Maria Russo//39 views/2 comments
ON DESPERATE GROUND: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir — the Greatest Battle of the Korean War, by Hampton Sides. (Anchor, 402 pp., $17.) This account of the 1...