Books
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The Complicated Artist Behind the Moomins
The Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson had a love-hate relationship with her most famous creations.
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Young, Cool, Coddled and Raised on the Internet
The best stories in Honor Levy’s “My First Book” capture the quiet desperation of today’s smart set. But there is…
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Inside MAGA’s Plan to Take Over America
“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to…
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These Books Might Make You Happier
Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.
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These 5 Black Ballerinas Blazed Their Own Trail
THE SWANS OF HARLEM: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History, by Karen…
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The Fashion Influencers of the French Revolution
“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who…
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Putting Sexual Assault on Trial, in a Fraught One-Woman Case
The actress Jodie Comer recasts her Tony-winning turn in Suzie Miller’s hit play “Prima Facie” for a new novelization.
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The Essential Joan Didion
The Joan Didion many people know is constructed from a few artifacts the real writer left behind when she died…
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Helen Vendler Believed Poetry Matters
She devoted her life to showing us how and why.
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Letter by Letter, Steve Gleason Typed His Memoir With His Eyes
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). I have always loved to read, and I read nearly anywhere.…