Books
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Mightier — and Meaner — Than the Sword
Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.
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A Body, a Family and the Woman Who Changed Everything
In “Mercury,” Amy Jo Burns explores the conflicting loyalties and many secrets of a roofing clan in small-town Pennsylvania.
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18 New Books Coming in January
Mercury, by Amy Jo Burns Burns’s second novel introduces the Josephs, a roofing family in Mercury, Pa., who — along…
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Audiobook of the Week: How to ‘Contain’ the Threat of A.I.?
In “The Coming Wave,” the British social activist turned tech entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman explores the existential risks of our new…
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The ‘Fantasy Dreamscapes’ of Basil Pao
Like his Surrealist forebear René Magritte, Basil Pao began his artistic career as a graphic designer, creating album and book…
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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David Mamet Names the Books That Explain the Real Hollywood
What’s the last great book you read? “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States,” by Frederick Law Olmsted. Also note:…
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The Novel That Sold 1,000 Copies a Week in 1903
Mary Augusta Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter” was the blockbuster best seller of its day.
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‘Sing in Me, Chatbot …’
The robots of literature and movies usually present either an existential danger or an erotic frisson. Those who don’t follow…
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Staffers at The Times on the Books They Enjoyed in 2023
A 1960s crime caper, a biography of the man who created the modern F.B.I., Sinead O’Connor’s memoir: Reporters, writers, editors…