Books
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Read Your Way Through Tangier
Credit...Raphaelle MacaronFirst, a warning: Tangier is not a place you visit only once. It will charm you, surprise you, make…
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Where Words Fail, Humor Glimmers
A HEART THAT WORKS, by Rob Delaney In his new memoir, “A Heart That Works,” the writer, actor and comedian…
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From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood
THE EASY LIFE, by Marguerite Duras, translated by Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes Remember boredom? The first English translation of…
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Douglas Brinkley Would Like to Invite Thoreau to Dinner
What books are on your night stand? Two of Cesar Chavez’s favorites: “Loaves and Fishes,” by Dorothy Day, and “Faith…
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Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries
EAT YOUR MIND: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker, by Jason McBride Kathy Acker — proto-punk, tough-stemmed flower,…
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Deal to Merge Two Publishing Giants Is on the Verge of Collapse
Penguin Random House’s deal to buy Simon & Schuster, a rival publisher, is close to collapsing after Simon & Schuster’s…
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In ‘G-Man,’ a J. Edgar Hoover as Complex as the Country He Served
G-MAN: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage J. Edgar Hoover, who served as…
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‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40
In 1981, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez were living in Oxnard, Calif., working as janitors to fund the trips they took…
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Sent From David Hockney’s iPad
A continent away from his perennially sunny Los Angeles poolscapes of the 1960s and ’70s, the British artist David Hockney,…
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What Books Does Haruki Murakami Find Disappointing? His Own.
What books are on your night stand? Michael Connelly’s “The Brass Verdict.” It’s a hard-bound copy I bought for a…