Books
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‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer
If a picture were still worth a thousand words, we’d know more than enough by now about Vivian Maier, the…
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With ‘Gunfight,’ an Insider Takes on a Community That Was Once His Own
Guns have been a constant in Ryan Busse’s life story. His father taught him to shoot as a boy growing…
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Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021
This was a remarkably rich and capacious year for nonfiction. While we all continued to grapple with urgent developing news…
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Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs
Each year around now, The New York Times’s book critics choose their favorite books from among those they reviewed over…
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An Intimate Look at the Dangerous, Boom-and-Bust Lives of Oil Workers
Why is it so hard to capture a flattering picture of one’s breasts? Here are a few reasons posited by…
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Famed for Fiction, Jim Harrison Was Also a Poet of Prodigious Appetites
JIM HARRISONComplete PoemsEdited by Joseph Bednarik A lot of people know Jim Harrison’s fiction, and there’s a lot of it…
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An Encyclopedic New Guide to Cocktails Stirred, Shaken, Rolled, Tossed, Swizzled, Muddled…
Do you know what a “boomerang” means, in bar terms? Before I read “The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails,”…
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The Best Graphic Novels of 2021
The sheer range of comics impressed us this year, from ambitious and experimental graphic novels that grappled with the Civil…
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Penguin Random House Defends Effort to Buy Simon & Schuster
Penguin Random House, the largest book publisher in the United States, said in a court filing on Monday that its…
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The Best Poetry of 2021
This year of slow and careful re-emergence has felt, to me, like an odd one for books. There was so…