Books
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Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic
BLACK AND FEMALE: Essays, by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s oeuvre has been defined by her…
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Hilderbabes Take Nantucket
On a Friday night in January, Elin Hilderbrand strode into the ballroom of the Nantucket Hotel wearing a fuchsia sundress,…
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Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity
In 1912, every resident of a mixed-race fishing community living on a small island called Malaga was evicted from their…
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Read Your Way Through Boston
Paul Theroux, the quintessential travel writer, has also enshrined his Massachusetts roots in his writing. Here are his recommendations for…
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A Puppet That’s Truly the Stuff of Nightmares
His “stumpy fabric legs” and “little nubbin arms” may seem innocuous, but Pupkin — the star of Grady Hendrix’s new…
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‘Vile,’ ‘Deplorable,’ ‘Full of Lies’: Aleksandar Hemon Is No Fan of Philip Roth
What books are on your night stand? Ray Monk’s “Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.” Oliver Sacks’s “Musicophilia: Tales of…
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He Got Biden to Open Up About His Stutter, Then Wrote About His Own
John Hendrickson's memoir “Life on Delay” recounts his experience with this poorly understood neurological disorder, tracing an arc from frustration…
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A Rosier View of Roald Dahl
“Teller of the Unexpected,” an elegant new biography, sidesteps the ugly side of the children’s book author while capturing his…
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An Oral History of Rikers Island
In a new book, a wide range of voices weigh in on the notorious jail complex.
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Bret Easton Ellis Is Back to His Regularly Scheduled Programming
In his latest novel, “The Shards,” the author returns to his old tropes: gruesome murder, lonely teenagers and 1980s Los…
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