Books
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Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?
In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell…
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Is This Maternity Hospital Haunted, or Is It All a Pregnant Metaphor?
In Clare Beams’s eerie new novel, “The Garden,” nefarious things are afoot.
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What Happened When Captain Cook Went Crazy
THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides…
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Climate Change Is Making Us Paranoid, Anxious and Angry
THE WEIGHT OF NATURE: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains, by Clayton Page Aldern We know, often with abject…
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The Culture Warriors Are Coming for You Smart People
In Lionel Shriver’s new novel, judging intelligence and competence is a form of bigotry.
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Two Women, United by Climate Change and the Man They Both Married
In her far-reaching latest novel, “The Limits,” Nell Freudenberger forges connections between the global and the familial.
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She Lied, Cheated and Stole. Then She Wrote a Book About It.
In her buzzy memoir, “Sociopath,” Patric Gagne shows herself more committed to revel in her naughtiness than to demystify the…
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Delmore Schwartz’s Poems Are Like Salt Flicked on the World
A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.”
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Her Husband Signed Up for the Military. She Didn’t.
In “The Wives,” Simone Gorrindo tells the story of joining a behind-the-scenes sorority — and how it changed her.
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A Frenchwoman’s Midlife Sexual Awakening
“Playboy,” an autobiographical novel by the writer Constance Debré, follows a woman who left her husband and job in search…
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