Books
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Talking About the Best Books of 2021
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen Earlier this week, several editors at The New York…
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‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will
A jet flies into a wild storm and emerges shrouded in mystery, forcing its passengers and the world at large…
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Shifting Styles and Blue Moods in the Pages of a Graphic Novel
Matt Madden is the stuntman-philosopher of American comics. His best-known book, “99 Ways to Tell a Story,” riffed on Raymond…
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The Horrors of Irish Magdalene Laundries, Revisited
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE By Claire Keegan A tiny thing itself — a slice-of-life novella cheekily packaged as a full-scale…
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Mel Brooks Keeps It Very Light in ‘All About Me!’
Mel Brooks has been responsible for so much in the American comedic canon, for so long, it sometimes seems he…
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Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling.
Lydia Davis learned German after being plopped into a classroom in Graz, Austria, at the age of 7. Her immersion…
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The 10 Best Books of 2021
CreditCredit...Artwork by Matt BleaseFICTION How Beautiful We Were By Imbolo Mbue Following her 2016 debut, “Behold the Dreamers,” Mbue’s ...
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A Book’s Unlikely Pairing: Fernando Pessoa and Plane Crashes
PILOT IMPOSTORBy James Hannaham In this playful and varied collection, the novelist James Hannaham (“Delicious Foods,” “God Says No”) makes…
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‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm
Toward the end of “Looking for the Good War,” Elizabeth D. Samet’s discerning new book about the gauzy mythology that…
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Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam
“Supposedly it’s the largest animal-made structure visible from space,” says the journalist and humorist Ian Frazier, whose latest book is…