Books
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Emily Ratajkowski Is a Work in Progress
On a September morning in SoHo, the airy, light-filled Inamorata office was filled with women. Beside racks of bathing suits…
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In Fight Over ‘Beloved,’ a Reminder of Literature’s Power
Every day I’m alive is a day I’m thankful that my parents were too busy to supervise my reading as…
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16 New Books Coming in November
‘1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir,’ by Ai Weiwei. Translated by Allan H. Barr. (Crown, Nov. 2) In…
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Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet
It’s impossible to read Chekhov without adopting his verbs. After an afternoon with “The Portable Chekhov” (which, at 640 pages,…
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Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again.
In 1997, two women in their 50s, one Black and one white, both smiling, posed for an unlikely picture —…
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Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?)
“The dystopia is now,” Gary Shteyngart said in an urgent tone, a few decibels shy of a yelp. We were…
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‘The Chancellor’ Portrays Angela Merkel as a Droll Source of Sanity in a Mad World
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is famous for her plain but direct style. “I have no charisma,” she once complained to…
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Read It and Scream
Overcoming dark times is the point of every scary story ever told. Whether it be pestilence or zombies, ravenous phantoms…
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A Sweeping New History Looks Back at 100 Years of Black Filmmaking
The first chapter of Wil Haygood’s elegant and well-made book of history, “Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in…
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John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores
John Grisham is an unapologetic master of the industrial-strength page turner. His latest, “The Judge’s List,” due out from Doubleday…