Books
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‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel
The Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was, in 2019, a youthful winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was 57,…
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Donna Barba Higuera Wins Newbery Medal for ‘The Last Cuentista’
“The Last Cuentista,” Donna Barba Higuera’s dystopian yet hopeful middle-grade novel, received this year’s John Newbery Medal on Monday, winning…
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Edmund White’s New Novel Is About a Husband’s Affair With Edmund White
A PREVIOUS LIFE Another Posthumous Novel By Edmund White When a story is set decades in the future, it usually…
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Brian Cox Takes Stock of His Eventful Life on Stage and Screen
I’m such a fan of the HBO series “Succession,” about a morally depraved, megarich media family, that I hum its…
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Seeking Enlightenment, He Disappeared Into a Hiker’s Bermuda Triangle
LOST IN THE VALLEY OF DEATHA Story of Obsession and Danger in the HimalayasBy Harley Rustad In August 2016, an…
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Reckoning With Joan Didion, the Archpriestess of Cool
In 1979, as a young and intrepid critic, I devoted my books column in The New Leader to Joan Didion’s…
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Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect
Several years ago, Michael Schur was stuck in Los Angeles traffic when he went into a philosophical tailspin. As he…
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In ‘Last Resort,’ a Writer Turns a Friend’s Story Into a Smash Success
Cowardly, avaricious, annoying, territorial, deceitful, opportunistic: There aren’t enough shady adjectives in the dictionary to describe the ...
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They Made the Most of the Opioid Crisis. Until They Didn’t.
THE HARD SELL Crime and Punishment at an Opioid StartupBy Evan Hughes The pharmaceutical industry is enjoying a very good…
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Thoreau, Emerson and the Town Where Their Thoughts Took Root
THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS AND THEIR WORLDBy Robert A. Gross The “great man” theory of history has been deeply out of fashion…