Books
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Books for Valentine’s Day
An editor recommends old and new books.
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When the Novel Swiped Right
A friend of a friend was heading back to New York on the train. He pulled out his phone and…
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Striking HarperCollins Workers Reach Tentative Agreement With Publisher
After a three-month strike, the two parties reached a tentative deal that includes wage increases and a one-time bonus.
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Big Shots Behaving Badly
UNSCRIPTED: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy, by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams…
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A Gorgeous, Dazzling Novel and a Mouthpiece for Human Darkness
OUR SHARE OF NIGHT, by Mariana Enriquez. Translated by Megan McDowell. In the 1970s, the artist Salvador Dalí was commissioned…
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Jojo Moyes’s Grandmother Knew a Bookworm When She Saw One
What books are on your night stand? “Shrines of Gaiety,” by Kate Atkinson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “We Should All Be…
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Boring Book Events? Not for Grady Hendrix.
The author of “How to Sell a Haunted House” learned the hard way that standing at the front of a…
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When the Government Goes Top Secret, Who Can Write Its History?
THE DECLASSIFICATION ENGINE: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets, by Matthew Connelly It’s no secret that government secrecy has…
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A Cockeyed Optimist: Oscar Hammerstein Was No Stephen Sondheim
Laurie Winer’s new book, “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical,” takes the measure of Sondheim’s mentor and…
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A Trailblazing Black Cartoonist’s Work: ‘It’s Unapologetic, and It’s the Truth’
Barbara Brandon-Croft’s series “Where I’m Coming From” was the first by a Black female cartoonist to be picked up by…