Books
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The ‘Sad, Happy Life’ of Carson McCullers
A new biography chronicles this essential American writer’s complicated love life, celebrated career and singular talents.
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36 Authors Times ‘Fourteen Days’ Adds Up to a Mixed Literary Experiment
In this collaboratively written novel, Lower East Side dwellers get through lockdown swapping colorful tales on the roof of their…
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A Celebrity Dies, and New Biographies Pop Up Overnight. The Author? A.I.
Books — often riddled with gross grammatical and factual errors — are appearing for sale online soon after the death…
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In This Road-Trip Thriller, Twin Sisters Hunt for Their Missing Mom
“Hard Girls,” by J. Robert Lennon, delves into family lives built on deception and abandonment.
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Some Authors Were Left Out of Awards Held in China. Leaked Emails Show Why.
When some books, including best sellers, were conspicuously absent from the science fiction Hugo Awards last year, writers and fans…
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Book Club: Let’s Talk About Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen Barbara Kingsolver’s novel “Demon Copperhead,” a riff on “David Copperfield” that…
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18 Years Later, Twitter — Now X — Has Yet to Grow Up
Two new books about the platform chronicle its leadership under first Jack Dorsey and now Elon Musk, portraying a site…
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New Worlds Open Up in 4 Devastating and Gorgeous Graphic Novels
Punk rock, Greek myth and a comics pioneer long lost to history bring vibrant color to this month’s releases.
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The Barefoot Memoirist: Ina Garten Takes Her Story to a New Publisher
Garten, the Food Network star and best-selling cookbook author, has moved her highly anticipated fall autobiography from Celadon to Crown.