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Last Build Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:01:58 GMT
Copyright: Copyright 2018 The New York Times CompanyMon, 23 Apr 2018 20:03:12 GMT
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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Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:00:06 GMT
Lawrence Wright’s “God Save Texas” is a loving and skeptical portrait of the place he calls home.
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Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:42:34 GMT
Protestors defend California’s sanctuary policies for undocumented immigrants in a March rally.The sociologist Manuel Pastor explores the rise, fall and rise again of America’s most populous state.
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Sat, 21 Apr 2018 09:00:01 GMT
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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Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:00:05 GMT
The Norwegian crime writer turns Shakespeare’s tragedy into a fast-paced thriller about murder and corruption in 1970s Glasgow.
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Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:30:59 GMT
James B. ComeyWhen 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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Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:12:24 GMT
Leslie JamisonIn “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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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:26:36 GMT
James Shapiro discusses Nesbo’s new novel, and Leila Slimani talks about “The Perfect Nanny.”
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Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:00:08 GMT
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and Blue Origin.Two new books, “The Space Barons” and “Rocket Billionaires,” tell the story of the entrepreneurial push to leave Earth.
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Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:00:06 GMT
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:00:06 GMT
Hillary Clinton gives a concession speech to her campaign staff and supporters on Nov. 9, 2016.Amy Chozick’s “Chasing Hillary” describes the impossibility of covering the two Clinton presidential campaigns.
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Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:30:04 GMT
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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Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:49:17 GMT
Ai Weiwei on the Greek island Lesbos, 2016, where he filmed Turkish refugees coming ashore for “Human Flow.” “Freedom is not an absolute condition, but a result of resistance,” he says in his new book, “Humanity.”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.”
Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:24:56 GMT
The Nancy comic strip has a fresh voice, from Olivia Jaimes, but not all readers are happy. Ms. Jaimes seemed to address critics with this note in a strip, in which she mentions a Snapchat filter.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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Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:11:19 GMT
The author is the son of Angela Missoni, the fashion house’s creative director.The colorful Italian fashion house has published an equally vibrant cookbook by the son of its creative director.
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Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:00:01 GMT
Sylvia Plath's yellow checked summer frock sold for $1,417.A tartan kilt, fishing rod and dragon pendant were among items auctioned recently by the poet’s daughter, Frieda Hughes.
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:30:01 GMT
News in style books, answering a reader’s questions about trends and remembering the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh.
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:39:08 GMT
A look at how Citizens United and a network of plutocrats have shaped the country’s politics.
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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:40:06 GMT
Madeleine AlbrightIn 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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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:15 GMT
Lisa ScottolineShe 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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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:13 GMT
The Harvard geneticist David Reich details his groundbreaking research into ancient DNA in “Who We Are and How We Got Here.”
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:12 GMT
“The Bible of Dirty Jokes,” by Eileen Pollack, tracks a middle-aged woman’s quest to find her lost brother and her own independence.
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:56:31 GMT
Ecology, eccentricity, celebrity, policy: Urban living brings it all together.
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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:12 GMT
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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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:11 GMT
Pablo Picasso in 1946.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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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:12 GMT
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:11 GMT
In Aminatta Forna’s novel “Happiness,” an American biologist and a Ghanaian psychiatrist find common ground among the urban dispossessed.
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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:08 GMT
John Lewis Gaddis’s “On Grand Strategy” is a study of global thinking at the highest levels.
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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:07 GMT
When the author of “Murder on the Orient Express” rode that very train on a journey toward true love.
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Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:01 GMT
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.”Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:01 GMT
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.Mon, 23 Apr 2018 03:38:59 GMT
Sergio Pitol delivering a speech at the University of Alcala, near Madrid, in 2006, after receiving the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.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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Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:46:20 GMT
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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Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:50:50 GMT
Amal El-Mohtar looks at new retellings of ancient tales, including a space opera, a futuristic “King Lear,” and an eco-thriller.
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:32:54 GMT
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:52:25 GMT
Sloane CrosleySloane Crosley’s third collection, “Look Alive Out There,” blends deep pathos with the author’s signature humor.
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Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:00:04 GMT
Tracy K. Smith, left, and Jacqueline Woodson in Manhattan for lunch.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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Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:22:49 GMT
Cleo Wade at her bohemian apartment, which overlooks Tompkins Square Park in the East Village of Manhattan.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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Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:00:01 GMT
James B. Comey being sworn in during a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in Washington in 2017.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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Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:39:33 GMT
Besides the journalism prizes, the committee awarded five Pulitzers to books this week. Here are our reviews.
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Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:30:04 GMT
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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Wed, 18 Apr 2018 18:46:05 GMT
Kenneth Frampton, a historian from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, will receive the award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale.The historian and critic, whom the biennale’s president called “a maestro,” will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
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Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:44:13 GMT
After Congress failed to act on the federal suffrage amendment, Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party went after President Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats in 1916.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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Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:16:05 GMT
The author of “The Looming Tower” and “Going Clear” captures the Lone Star State in all its shame and glory.
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Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:42:20 GMT
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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Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:14:20 GMT
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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Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:25:59 GMT
Bill Nack in a stable in Virginia in 1993. In articles for Sports Illustrated and in a biography of Secretariat, he observed horse racing with a literary eye from the stable to the track.
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