Books
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John le Carré’s Last Completed Spy Novel Crowns a Career Attuned to Moral Ambivalence
SILVERVIEW By John le Carré Sixty years ago, David John Moore Cornwell, a young officer in the British secret services,…
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He Finds Women on Dating Apps. Then They Disappear.
“If you remember me at all, you remember the shy, slight, discomfited and fatherless soul known to inhabit every little…
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A Memoir of Post-Genocide Refugee Life Rendered With Delicacy and Insight
THOSE WE THROW AWAY ARE DIAMONDSA Refugee’s Search for HomeBy Mondiant Dogon with Jenna Krajeski At one point in Mondiant…
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Thomas Mallon on the Career of Jonathan Franzen
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Crossroads,” has generated a lot…
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In Katie Couric’s ‘Going There,’ There Includes Family Skeletons, Busting Into the Boys’ Club and More
Early in her broadcasting career, Katie Couric tried using her given name, Katherine, onscreen: “to counteract my Campbell’s Soup Kid…
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‘Whore of New York’ Reflects on Sex, Love and Labor
Let’s start with the title. “Whore of New York” employs the great and underused [Character] of [Place] naming convention —…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right
“The freedom to write”: PEN America’s always resonant motto has a special resonance for Black authors, because for so many…
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He Stayed Grounded by Writing a Thriller Set in Outer Space
In his long and varied career, the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has flown fighter jets, walked in space and orbited…
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Sally Rooney Declines to Sell Translation Rights to Israeli Publisher
The Irish novelist Sally Rooney said on Tuesday that she would not allow the Israeli publishing house that handled her…
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Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet
It’s hard not to bring a heavy dose of armchair psychology to “State of Terror,” the surprising new geopolitical thriller…