Books
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A Tale of Four Troubled and Talented Sisters, Told With Irish Flair
There’s more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes’s riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.
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When a Family’s Dysfunction Mirrors a Nation’s
“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.
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Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Stabbing in a New Memoir
“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.
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Three Daughters, Three New Memoirs About Mothers
Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.
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He Was Blinded in One Eye, but Salman Rushdie’s Vision Is Undiminished
Last May, nine months after the knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie made a surprise appearance at the…
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For Caleb Carr, Salvation Arrived on Little Cat’s Feet
As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a…
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A Child’s-Eye View of One Black Family’s Covered-Wagon Journey
Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.
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Audiobooks to Lull You to Sleep
No, they’re not boring. But the charm and magic of these audiobooks make them the ideal bedtime stories for adults.
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Does It Seem Like the End Times Are Here? These Novels Know Better.
On the day my mother died, I sat by her bedside and read the Psalms. The room was quiet —…
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Doris Kearns Goodwin Wasn’t Competing With Her Husband
Describe your ideal reading experience. The early hours before dawn have always been best. I have all that is necessary:…