Books
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What’s the Key to Understanding Donald J. Trump? Start With Queens.
CONFIDENCE MAN: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, by Maggie Haberman Donald Trump is too much…
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A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve
For many readers, the portal into Hilary Mantel’s work was “Wolf Hall” (2009), the first volume of an astonishing trilogy…
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7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
🎧 Uncultured: A Memoir By Daniella Mestyanek Young, with Brandi Larsen. Read by the author. Raised in the Children of…
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Read Your Way Through Helsinki
Credit...Raphaelle MacaronFinns love to read: It’s their favorite thing to do in their time off. The country is a little…
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Ian McEwan Returns With a Tale of Adolescent Lust and Adult Lassitude
LESSONSBy Ian McEwan431 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Nobody is better at writing about entropy, indignity and ejaculation — among…
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In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness
STRANGERS TO OURSELVESUnsettled Minds and the Stories That Make UsBy Rachel Aviv276 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28. Rachel Aviv…
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Agatha Christie’s Latest Biographer Plumbs a Life of Mystery
AGATHA CHRISTIEAn Elusive WomanBy Lucy Worsley415 pages. Pegasus Crime. $29.95. Agatha Christie’s best books have crisp dialogue and high ...
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Sex and Murder in Maggie O’Farrell’s Overwrought Historical Drama
THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, by Maggie O’Farrell Does great sex yield great children? Norman Mailer thought so (of course), but other…
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The ’90s Partisans Who Fueled the Rise of Grievance Conservatism
PARTISANSThe Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990sBy Nicole Hemmer358 pages. Basic Books. $32. Even for those of…
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Jared Kushner’s ‘Breaking History’ Is a Soulless and Very Selective Memoir
BREAKING HISTORYA White House MemoirBy Jared Kushner492 pages. Broadside Books. $35. The United States Secret Service isn’t known for its…