Books
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Divorced, Disheveled and Hiking Toward Love
In David Nicholls’s “You Are Here,” a boggy trek through the English countryside becomes an unlikely impetus for midlife romance.
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An Erotic Story of Love and Obsession in 1960s Amsterdam
An unlikely romance blooms in Yael van der Wouden’s tricky, remarkable novel, “The Safekeep.”
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The Women of Greek Myths Are Finally Talking Back
Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets…
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He Took a Terrible, Horrible, No-Good 800-Mile Hike So You Don’t Have To
In “A Walk in the Park,” Kevin Fedarko recounts a trek-of-a-lifetime that becomes a nightmare in one of America’s most…
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The Best Books of the Year (So Far)
Fiction | Nonfiction We’re almost halfway through 2024 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds of…
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Why Forgettable Commencement Speeches Are a Good Thing
At a time of extreme polarization on campus, the banality of the graduation ceremony is a tradition worth celebrating.
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Everyone Wants a Piece of Kafka, a Writer Who Refused to Be Claimed
A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy.
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The Essential Don DeLillo
For years when I was younger, and still dreamed that I might be a novelist instead of an editor or…
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‘Butcher’ Tells the (Mostly) True Story of a Very Bad Gynecologist
Through the lens of a 19th-century doctor, Joyce Carol Oates explores gothic medical horror.
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Sebastian Junger Is Reporting Live From the Brink of Death
In his new memoir, Junger, the veteran journalist, makes sense of — and an uneasy peace with — an experience…