Books
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A Country Where ‘Some People Need Killing’ Was State Policy
The new book by the Philippine journalist Patricia Evangelista recounts her investigation into the campaign of extrajudicial murders under former…
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Jacqueline Woodson and Amber McBride Look Backward to Look Forward
“Remember Us” recalls the fires of 1970s Bushwick. “Gone Wolf” begins in a 2111 Southern breakaway nation after a second…
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Is It a Moral Awakening or Just One Man’s Midlife Crisis?
In Rupert Thomson’s new novel, “Dartmouth Park,” the sound of a mundane beep triggers in one man what may be…
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A Historical Novel That Is Also a Mash-Up of the Centuries
Adam Thirlwell’s “The Future Future” follows a 19-year-old socialite through a prerevolutionary Paris that looks suspiciously like our present day.
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Did the C.I.A. Kill Patrice Lumumba?
In “The Lumumba Plot,” the Foreign Affairs editor Stuart A. Reid asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in…
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A Russian Journalist’s Love Letter to Her People
“I Love Russia,” a collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s reporting over the past 15 years, captures the lives of ordinary, often…
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A History of Chinese Food, and a Sensory Feast
Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” is a cultural investigation of an impossibly broad and often misunderstood cuisine.
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Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.
“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to…
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When Roz Chast Closes Her Eyes, Chris Rock and Nasty Babies Open Theirs
In “I Must Be Dreaming,” the cartoonist serves up nutty nocturnal admissions, considers theories of sleep and, yes, imagines losing…
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The Essential Vladimir Nabokov
People who dislike Vladimir Nabokov tend to find his dexterity stressful, like watching a circus performer juggle torches for hours.…