Books
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When Siskel and Ebert Were the Names Above the Title
In “Opposable Thumbs,” Matt Singer recalls the risky business of putting newspaper movie critics on TV — and the “combustible…
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Are Fears of A.I. and Nuclear Apocalypse Keeping You Up? Blame Prometheus.
How an ancient Greek myth explains our terrifying modern reality.
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In Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel, Slavery Is Hell and Dante Is Our Guide
LET US DESCEND, by Jesmyn Ward After Annis, the enslaved teenage girl at the center of Jesmyn Ward’s new novel,…
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The Twilight of Mitt Romney
ROMNEY: A Reckoning, by McKay Coppins “For most of his life, he has nursed a morbid fascination with his own…
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When Courtly Love Goes Wrong, It’s Deadly
HUNTING THE FALCON: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe, by John Guy and Julia Fox Anne…
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Infiltrating the Ultimate Boys’ Club — With Spycraft
In “The Sisterhood,” the journalist Liza Mundy chronicles the frustrations, triumphs and compromises of the women of the C.I.A.
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Helen Garner Keeps ‘Paradise Lost’ and a Bible Close at Hand
What books are on your night stand? “Urn Burial,” by Sir Thomas Browne, “Paradise Lost,” by John Milton, the King…
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A Country Where ‘Some People Need Killing’ Was State Policy
The new book by the Philippine journalist Patricia Evangelista recounts her investigation into the campaign of extrajudicial murders under former…
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Jacqueline Woodson and Amber McBride Look Backward to Look Forward
“Remember Us” recalls the fires of 1970s Bushwick. “Gone Wolf” begins in a 2111 Southern breakaway nation after a second…
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Is It a Moral Awakening or Just One Man’s Midlife Crisis?
In Rupert Thomson’s new novel, “Dartmouth Park,” the sound of a mundane beep triggers in one man what may be…