Books
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Read Your Way Through Missoula
Montana calls to storytellers: The cold clear waters of its rivers have carried the voices of its inhabitants from time…
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1960s London Comes Alive in a Fierce, Funny Coming-of-Age Novel
In “The Halt During the Chase,” by Rosemary Tonks — first published in 1972, and newly reissued — a young…
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The Forrest Gump of Data Mining Saw It All
McKenzie Funk’s “The Hank Show” follows the improbable career of one man, and the surveillance state he helped create.
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Here Are the Finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Paul Harding and Cristina Rivera Garza are among the honorees. Winners will be announced next month.
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Even Michael Lewis Can’t Make a Hero Out of Sam Bankman-Fried
“Going Infinite,” Lewis’s new book about the disgraced crypto billionaire, defies the author’s winning formula of upbeat narratives and unsung…
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Conjuring Mary Shelley’s Outrageous Imagination
A Dutch novelist envisions the creation of “Frankenstein,” Shelley’s most famous work.
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The Most Important Eight Hours of Your Day? They Weren’t Always.
Kenneth Miller’s “Mapping the Darkness” takes on the turbulent study of sleeping, its heroes and villains and its ongoing fight…
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A Fitting — and Frightening — Homage to ‘The Haunting of Hill House’
A HAUNTING ON THE HILL, by Elizabeth Hand As Holly, the protagonist of Elizabeth Hand’s “A Haunting on the Hill,”…
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Ferrante Before Ferrante
Elsa Morante’s propulsive 1940s saga of women’s lives, “Lies and Sorcery,” brings its penetrating insight to a new generation.
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The Deadly Red Tape of Israel’s Occupation in Palestine
In “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,” Nathan Thrall untangles the political and personal story of a bus…