Books
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A Novel of Lost Daughters and Waylaid Lives
Prison, pregnancies and other operatic turns propel Caroline Leavitt’s latest book, “Days of Wonder.”
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‘James,’ ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the Triumph of Literary Fan Fiction
How Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver reimagined classic works by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
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Anne Lamott Has Written Classics. This Is Not One of Them.
Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction.
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How Did Fan Culture Take Over? And Why Is It So Scary?
REBOOT, by Justin Taylor There are two kinds of novels about American life in the digital age: panoramas and selfies.…
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Long Before Trump, Immigrant Detention Was Arbitrary and Cruel
“In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking…
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A Sugary Bonbon of a Novel From a Legendary Foodie
In “The Paris Novel,” Ruth Reichl is a glutton for wish fulfillment.
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A Quite Contrary Alphabet Book Asks, How Did Our Gardens Grow?
AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING FOR COLORED CHILDREN: An Alphabetary of the Colonized World, by Jamaica Kincaid. Illustrated by Kara Walker.…
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That Time Europe Tried to Bring Monarchy Back to Mexico
HABSBURGS ON THE RIO GRANDE:The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas In October 1863, a…
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A Stunning Visual Celebration of Black Rodeo
In several frames of the artist Arthur Jafa’s seminal 2016 video collage of Black America, “Love Is the Message, the…
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Spooks, Sleuths and the Nazi Origins of the War on Drugs
In the years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland,…