Books
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‘Medusa’s Ankles,’ a Selection of A.S. Byatt’s Wildly Imagined Stories Across Three Decades
A.S. Byatt’s fiction, in the years since her best-selling and Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession” (1990), has been increasingly ornate ...
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A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present
THE 1619 PROJECTA New Origin StoryEdited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein Has a book ever…
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How Hanif Abdurraqib Cuts Through the Noise
COLUMBUS, Ohio — He received a MacArthur “genius” grant in September. A week later, he was named a finalist for…
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The 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books
Since 1952, we’ve convened a rotating annual panel of three expert judges who consider every illustrated children’s book published that…
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The 2021 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Winners at Work
Each year, we work with the New York Public Library to administer the honor now called The New York Times/New…
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Tales That Linger in Your Mind and Take up Residency in Your Soul
As law enforcement across the country undergoes a reckoning, the police novel — a stalwart for 70 years — has…
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Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’
“Joined of course by Emma, Elizabeth Bennet, Anne Elliot, Marianne — well, that’s enough.,” says the renowned British biographer Claire…
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A Singer Lends Her Voice to a Conversation About Autism
I DREAM HE TALKS TO MEA Memoir of Learning How to ListenBy Allison Moorer Allison Moorer opens her new memoir,…
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McCartney, With and Without Lennon
THE LYRICS 1956 to the Present By Paul McCartney Edited and with an introduction by Paul Muldoon When they first…
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A Biography of E.O. Wilson, the Scientist Who Foresaw Our Troubles
SCIENTISTE. O. Wilson: A Life in NatureBy Richard Rhodes The scientist and naturalist E. O. Wilson has always reminded me…