Books
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Read Your Way Through Maine
Reading and writing are deeply valued in Maine. The novelist Lily King recommends fiction, nature writing, memoirs, children’s books and…
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After a Great Flood, a Struggle Between Faith and Reason
Khaled Khalifa’s new novel follows two friends through disaster and religious tension in early-20th-century Syria.
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What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles The Loss of His Vision
In “The Country of the Blind,” Andrew Leland explores the history, the culture and the experiences of blind people
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In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive
It’s hard to overstate how central Milan Kundera was, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere. He…
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A Cult ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ Amid the New York Brownstones
In “The Sullivanians,” Alexander Stille recalls the heyday of an experiment in communal living that blurred the boundaries between therapists,…
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Murder in a Moneyed Fire Island Enclave
Who is the worst of the BAD SUMMER PEOPLE (Flatiron, 261 pp., $28.99) in Emma Rosenblum’s addictive thriller of manners…
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‘It Requires Genius and He Had It’: Readers on Cormac McCarthy
McCarthy’s death inspired hundreds of people to share their impressions of him and his work.
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In ‘Fancy Bear Goes Phishing,’ Tales of Harmful Hacks
A new book by Scott J. Shapiro, a law and philosophy professor at Yale, examines breaches of cybersecurity and their…
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In Cold War Berlin, an Affair Born of Chaos and Control
Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel “Kairos” folds intimations of German history and cultural memory into a torrid romance.
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A Classic of Golden Age Detective Fiction Turns 100
In a 1937 essay, the English writerDorothy L. Sayers explained the genesis of her most famous character and one of…