Do You Know Where These Classic Novels Are Set?
Summer is here! Try this short quiz about books that happen to be set in popular vacation destinations.
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Summer is here! Try this short quiz about books that happen to be set in popular vacation destinations.
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A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
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He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
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In his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.
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Have Refrigerators Spoiled Everything?
In “Frostbite,” Nicola Twilley travels the cold chain that preserves what we eat and helps it get around the world.
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What Happened to the Well-Mannered Cat Burglar?
In “A Gentleman and a Thief,” Dean Jobb vividly recounts the life and times of the notorious criminal — and tabloid fixture — Arthur Barry.
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Two Sisters, Joined in Hardship and Separated by a Bear
A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.
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Have You Heard the One About the School for Stand-Up Comedy?
In “The Material,” Camille Bordas imagines the anxious hotbed where the perils of being a college student and the perils of being funny meet.
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Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.
A brisk new biography by the National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles aims to restore the iconic freedom fighter to human scale.
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Have You Heard the One About the School for Stand-Up Comedy?
In “The Material,” Camille Bordas imagines the anxious hotbed where the perils of being a college student and the perils of being funny meet.
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Anthony Fauci, a Hero to Some and a Villain to Others, Keeps His Cool
In a frank but measured memoir, “On Call,” the physician looks back at a career bookended by two public health crises: AIDS and Covid-19.
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Millions of Americans Watched ‘The Apprentice.’ Now We Are Living It.
As a new book by Ramin Setoodeh shows, Donald Trump brought the vulgar theatrics he honed on TV to his life in politics.
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The 1990s Were Weirder Than You Think. We’re Feeling the Effects.
In “When the Clock Broke,” John Ganz shows how a decade remembered as one of placid consensus was roiled by resentment, unrest and the rise of the radical right.
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In “The Singularity Is Nearer,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil reckons with a world dominated by artificial intelligence (good) and his own mortality (bad).
By Nathaniel Rich
Frederick Seidel’s 19th book, “So What,” is filled with politics, disease, luxury and provocation. At almost 90, he’s one of our best contemporary poets.
By Daisy Fried
Rather than bemoan pop culture’s most divisive genre, Emily Nussbaum spends time with the creators, the stars and the victims of the decades-long effort to generate buzz.
By Eric Deggans
He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
By Adam Nossiter
Two decades after his death, a collection of over 800 works that the first president of Senegal owned is moving from France to Dakar.
By Aida Alami
A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.
By Jess Walter
A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
By Scott Veale
Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust.
By David Segal
Summer is here! Try this short quiz about books that happen to be set in popular vacation destinations.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
“The New Breadline,” by Jean-Martin Bauer, a veteran food aid worker, chronicles a growing problem that should not exist — along with the harmful policies that have exacerbated it.
By Alec MacGillis
Tracy O’Neill’s memoir, “Woman of Interest,” recounts her yearlong quest, which culminates in a trip to Korea.
By Sloane Crosley
With her new book, “Children of Anguish and Anarchy,” Adeyemi is wrapping up her best-selling Legacy of Orïsha series. The journey hasn’t been easy.
By Wilson Wong
A dinner party at the other woman’s house; the evening before a jail sentence.
After getting her start by self-publishing, Freida McFadden is now the fastest selling thriller writer in the United States.
By Alexandra Alter
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Starring an undergraduate student at Oxford, Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic life.
By Brian Dillon
Santiago Jose Sanchez’ debut novel, “Hombrecito,” follows a young immigrant as he grows up in the United States, struggling to identify with a masculinity he’s never felt and a country he never knew.
By Miguel Salazar
In “The Friday Afternoon Club,” the actor and director recalls his years growing up around performers, writers and the Hollywood set.
After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view.
By Jennifer Schuessler
This week's selection includes titles by Gabrielle Zevin, Peace Adzo Medie, Patrick Mackie and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
In her latest book, Olivia Laing makes an impassioned case for the garden — as repository of natural beauty, as democratic ideal, as writerly inspiration.
By A.O. Scott
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