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A Literary Stop on the Campaign Trail
Adam Popescu//36 views/1 comments
Writers Bloc, a Los Angeles reading series now in its 24th year, has become increasingly important for political authors. LOS ANGELES — Dan Pfeiffer, the Obama ...
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Was There a Murder on the Mayflower?
Samantha Harvey//30 views/2 comments
Fiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. BEHELDTaraShea Nesbit Often it isn’t the main events...
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An Illustrated Love Song to Jewish Restaurants of Old
Dwight Garner//47 views/1 comments
Books of The Times When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. In his memoir, “Lucky Bruce,” Bruce Jay F...
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Betsy Byars, Who Wrote of Deserted Children, Is Dead at 91
Daniel E. Slotnik//32 views/1 comments
Ms. Byars’s award-winning children’s books, including “The Summer of the Swans” and “The Night Swimmers,” often dealt with abandonment. Betsy Byars, who drew fr...
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A Gay Man Remembers His Awakening, as AIDS Shook His World
John Williams//27 views
5 Things About Your Book The memoirist and novelist Paul Lisicky says that “versions” of his experiences in Provincetown, Mass. — the Cape Cod community renowne...
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Andreas Brown, Longtime Owner of Gotham Book Mart, Dies at 86
Sam Roberts//34 views/2 comments
An appraiser and archivist, he bought the celebrated mid-Manhattan shop in 1967 from its founder, Frances Steloff and ran it for 40 years. Andreas Brown, a bibl...
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From the Archives: Michael Lewis and Tana French
Jeremy Zimmerman//33 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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The Beauty Is in the Details
Nicole Georges//44 views
Sketchbook What one artist learned when she sat down to talk with Lynda Barry. Nicole J. Georges is the author of the graphic novels “Calling Dr. Laura” and “Fe...
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Gothic Horror Fiction, Old and New
Danielle Trussoni//37 views/2 comments
Lately, my favorite fiction has transported me out of the terrors of the present and thrust me back in time. Take Jess Kidd’s utterly mesmerizing third novel, T...
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These Are the Faces of Muslim Women Throughout History
Rafia Zakaria//41 views/1 comments
Nonfiction When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. A HISTORY OF ISLAM IN 21 WOMENBy Hossein Kamaly T...
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New in Paperback: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘How to Disappear’
Maria Russo//34 views/1 comments
WOMEN TALKING, by Miriam Toews. (Bloomsbury, 216 pp., $16.) In Toews’s sixth novel, the women of a fictional Mennonite colony, all of whom have been raped by me...
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Considering Steven Levy and Artificial Life
Frederick Hernandez//31 views
In this week’s issue, Natasha Singer reviews “Facebook: The Inside Story,” by Steven Levy. In 1992, William Poundstone wrote for the Book Review about “Artifici...
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Lawrence Wright’s New Pandemic Novel Wasn’t Supposed to Be Prophetic
Lawrence Wright//44 views/2 comments
Essay My new novel, “The End of October,” which comes out next month, is a work of imagination. The book is not prophecy, but its appearance in the middle of th...
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A Shang-Chi Comic for Summer, Ahead of the Hero’s Marvel Film
George Gene Gustines//42 views
The martial arts hero will star in a new mini-series beginning in June, as “Shang-Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings” is slated to hit theaters in February. N...
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How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profits
Natasha Singer//36 views/1 comments
Nonfiction PHARMAGreed, Lies, and the Poisoning of AmericaBy Gerald Posner In 1900, Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company that had developed aspirin, introdu...