Books
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Eat the Rich? How About Dine With Them Instead.
In “Flight of the WASP,” the inveterate dirt-digger Michael Gross gives America’s elite families the white-glove treatment.
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A Wine Guide for a Changing World (for Better and for Worse)
Ray Isle’s “The World in a Wineglass” is a broad survey of vintners with a focus on sustainability and organic…
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In the Middle of a War With No End in Sight
In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of…
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My First Trip to ‘Rubyfruit Jungle’
Molly Bolt may not be as renowned as Holden Caulfield, but to those who know her name, she is as…
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Mick Herron Has Made a Blockbuster Career Writing About Foul-Ups and Has-Beens
The author of the “Slow Horses” series says he relates more with failures. With millions of books sold and the…
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Why Do Evil and Suffering Exist? Religion Has One Answer, Literature Another.
In the church of my childhood, we believed God’s angels battled demons in a war for our souls. This was…
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‘Murder’s Easy. We Did Something Much Worse.’
There’s a mordant theme to this month’s column; in three of the four books, dark humor undercuts despair and sardonic…
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A Masterpiece About a Masterpiece, for All Ages
An enchanting work by Italy’s foremost living children’s author is finally available in English.
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Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief
“I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking,” the painter Kerry James Marshall wrote in 2018. “Material…
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Justin Torres, Author of ‘Blackouts,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction
Ned Blackhawk received the nonfiction award, with “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.”