An Erotic Story of Love and Obsession in 1960s Amsterdam
An unlikely romance blooms in Yael van der Wouden’s tricky, remarkable novel, “The Safekeep.”
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An unlikely romance blooms in Yael van der Wouden’s tricky, remarkable novel, “The Safekeep.”
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Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.
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In “A Walk in the Park,” Kevin Fedarko recounts a trek-of-a-lifetime that becomes a nightmare in one of America’s most stunning sites. At least he can laugh about it.
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Looking for your next great read? We’ve got 3,228. Explore the best fiction and nonfiction from 2000 - 2023 chosen by our editors.
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The Best Romance Novels of the Year (So Far)
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
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The Brilliant Comic Who Shined Brightest Out of the Spotlight
A new biography of the performer, writer and director Elaine May has the intensity to match its subject.
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She Was More Than the Woman Who Made Julia Child Famous
In “The Editor,” Sara B. Franklin argues that Judith Jones was a “publishing legend,” transcending industry sexism to champion cookbooks — and Anne Frank.
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She Survived a Train Accident. Her Train Wreck of a Dad Is Next.
In Garth Risk Hallberg’s new novel, a teenage rebel and her father reconnect amid a sea of their own troubles.
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Domination Meets Inspiration in a Consuming Affair Between Artists
R.O. Kwon’s second novel, “Exhibit,” sees two Korean American women finding pleasure in a bond that knits creative expression and sadomasochism.
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In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
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This urban island is home to a huge number of popular books for younger readers. Try this short quiz to see how many you recognize.
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In “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore takes us back to a time when the use of “service magic” was an everyday — and underground — practice.
By Liesl Schillinger
In David Nicholls’s “You Are Here,” a boggy trek through the English countryside becomes an unlikely impetus for midlife romance.
By Paul Rudnick
How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.
By Houman Barekat
Chigozie Obioma, the fifth of 12 children in a Nigerian family, dreamed of following in Maradona’s footsteps. Bouts of malaria drove him to books — and changed his life.
By Wadzanai Mhute
Teddy Wayne takes a swing at sex, class and sporty intrigue in his latest novel, “The Winner.”
By Mary Pols
Stuart E. Eizenstat has served half a dozen U.S. presidents and made a lot of friends. In “The Art of Diplomacy,” he lays out some of their teachable moments.
By Fintan O’Toole
With her collaborator, Elaine Mazlish, she wrote “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” and other books that have endured as parenting bibles.
By Alex Williams
A Gwendolyn Brooks biography; a Bill Cunningham photo collection.
Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve experienced it and how it has changed them.
By Dina Gachman and Daniel Arnold
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