Inside Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire
When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.
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6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Anne Berest, Brandon Taylor and more.
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Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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A Novel of Nantucket’s Unglamorous Side
In “Wait,” Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.
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Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.
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Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”
CreditRebecca Clarke By the BookIn 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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Credit NonfictionDefeat Is Agonizing. In These 2 Books, It’s Also Thrilling.
If you love stories about beautiful losers, consider Brian Moore’s novel about an alcoholic virgin or Benjamin Anastas’s tale of an inferior twin.
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More in Books of The Times ›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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The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.
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CreditBea Oyster for The New York Times Adultery Gets Weird in Miranda July’s New Novel
An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.
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CreditAnna Morrison Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
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Hari Kunzru examines the ties between art and wealth in a new novel, “Blue Ruin.”
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Defeat Is Agonizing. In These 2 Books, It’s Also Thrilling.
If you love stories about beautiful losers, consider Brian Moore’s novel about an alcoholic virgin or Benjamin Anastas’s tale of an inferior twin.
Queen of the Book Club
Sitting down for lunch with Reese Witherspoon, whose book picks have become a force in the publishing industry.
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Inside Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire
When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.
By Elisabeth Egan
FictionAn Instagram Poet, a Billionaire and the End of the World
In Frankie Barnet’s novel, “Mood Swings,” two young women work to craft meaningful lives as society collapses around them.
By Sarah Rose Etter
FictionA Novel of Nantucket’s Unglamorous Side
In “Wait,” Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.
By Imbolo Mbue
Why Did the First Space Shuttle Disaster Happen?
Adam Higginbotham discusses his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.”
Alta, Irreverent Feminist Poet and Small-Press Pioneer, Dies at 81
She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.
By Penelope Green
Paperback Row6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Anne Berest, Brandon Taylor and more.
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Children’s BooksWhose Folk Tale Is It Anyway?
A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.
By Sabrina Orah Mark
After a Season of Protest, PEN America’s Literary Gala Goes Forward
The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.
By Jennifer Schuessler
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