Books
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How H.G. Wells Predicted the 20th Century
THE YOUNG H. G. WELLSChanging the WorldBy Claire Tomalin Toward the end of Claire Tomalin’s well-researched biography “The Young H.…
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Adding Surprise to Your Reading Life
Credit..."Santa Rufina" by Diego VelázquezHello friends, Welcome to Read Like the Wind. If you are following this newsletter from its…
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Nonfiction Audiobooks to Download This Winter
Welcome to the golden age of audiobooks. Maybe it’s because podcasts have given us an insatiable thirst for audio storytelling;…
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Trump Is Publishing a Photo Book of His Time in Office
Donald J. Trump is publishing a book of photographs celebrating his time as president, according to a statement from his…
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Ross Douthat on Dealing With Lyme Disease
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is used…
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Jason Mott Wins National Book Award for ‘Hell of a Book’
Jason Mott won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday for his novel “Hell of a Book,” an account…
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A Sweeping History of American Comics
AMERICAN COMICSA HistoryBy Jeremy Dauber For every Superman, there must be a Superduperman. In 1953, 15 years following the Man…
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John Edgar Wideman’s Art of Storytelling
LOOK FOR ME AND I’LL BE GONEStoriesBy John Edgar Wideman The first entry in John Edgar Wideman’s latest story collection,…
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In Another Trump Book, a Journalist’s Belated Awareness Steals the Show
By the looks of his formidable résumé, the veteran Beltway journalist Jonathan Karl shouldn’t startle all that easily. “Karl has…
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Seven Immigrant Women Who Changed the Way Americans Eat
TASTE MAKERS Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in AmericaBy Mayukh Sen When Mayukh Sen started working on his book…