Books
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In This Novel, Opposites Don’t Attract. They Converge.
“The Leftover Woman” follows two struggling women living completely different lives. How do their paths overlap?
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Looking to the Dutch Masters for Answers to Life’s Big Questions
THE UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD: Meetings With the Dutch Masters, by Benjamin Moser When he moved from New York to the Netherlands…
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The First Magazine for Black Children Is Revisited, Its Message Still Resonant
An anthology that combines new work with selections from The Brownies’ Book, a children’s magazine launched by W.E.B. Du Bois,…
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The Muchness of Madonna
Mary Gabriel’s biography is as thorough as its subject is disciplined. But in relentlessly defending the superstar, where’s the party?
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The Cosmic, Outrageous, Ecstatic Truths of Werner Herzog
The filmmaker’s new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All,” prompts a critic’s incredulity.
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It’s a Woman’s World. We’re All Just Living in It.
Cat Bohannon’s “Eve” is an opinionated clapback against centuries of male-centric evolutionary history.
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Jhumpa Lahiri Translates the Varieties of Strangeness
In “Roman Stories,” written in Italian, nine protagonists have little in common except their foreignness.
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Ghosts Come in Many Forms in Bryan Washington’s New Novel
In “Family Meal,” the author follows the jagged reunion of two former best friends, each grappling with grief and complicated…
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Audiobook of the Week: What’s Really in a Hot Dog?
“Raw Dog,” by the comedian Jamie Loftus, is an investigative memoir that’s part gonzo travelogue and part takedown of the…
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Kate DiCamillo Is Not Afraid of the Dark
Kate DiCamillo learned the craft of storytelling by sitting on old ladies’ porches on her dead-end street in Central Florida.…