Books
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‘Devil House,’ a Confident, Creepy Novel About a Wicked Unsolved Crime
John Darnielle lobs his novels in from the margins of American life. They’re lonely books, and they always get to…
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They Wanted to Write the History of Modern China. But How?
KINGDOM OF CHARACTERSThe Language Revolution That Made China ModernBy Jing Tsu One summer’s evening in 1916, 27-year-old Zhou Houkun stepped…
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A Black Graduate of an Elite Boarding School Gets Real
ADMISSIONSA Memoir of Surviving Boarding SchoolBy Kendra James Early in her memoir, “Admissions,” Kendra James describes an off-campus adventure ...
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In a Virus-Stricken Future, Humanity Endures Amid the Grief
HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARKBy Sequoia Nagamatsu How do we react to the self-made devastation of the Anthropocene?…
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A Fascinating Page-Turner Made From an Unlikely Subject: Federal Reserve Policy
There’s something undeniably gratifying about an elegantly crafted morality tale — and the business reporter Christopher Leonard has written a…
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Hope Gained and Lost, in New Fiction From Around the World
AS YOU WERE By Elaine Feeney 392 pp. Biblioasis. Paper, $16.95. In 2022, it’s almost standard to confess a medical…
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What Does It Mean to Be a ‘High-Risk Homosexual’?
HIGH-RISK HOMOSEXUAL A Memoir By Edgar Gomez The concept of Latinidad, or “Latinness,” is an unstable one. Meant to encompass…
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Two High-Powered Black Attorneys Confront a Justice System’s Flaws
JUST PURSUITA Black Prosecutor’s Fight for FairnessBy Laura Coates THE RAGE OF INNOCENCEHow America Criminalizes Black YouthBy Kristin Henning ...
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Robert Gottlieb on ‘Garbo’ and ‘Babbitt’
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen The writer and editor Robert Gottlieb does double duty…
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‘American Urbanist,’ a Well-Timed Biography of a Man Who Reshaped City Life
Before crowdsourcing, there was groupthink. The first sounds almost jolly: a mosh pit of ideas. The second, a term introduced…