Books
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Infiltrating the Ultimate Boys’ Club — With Spycraft
In “The Sisterhood,” the journalist Liza Mundy chronicles the frustrations, triumphs and compromises of the women of the C.I.A.
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Helen Garner Keeps ‘Paradise Lost’ and a Bible Close at Hand
What books are on your night stand? “Urn Burial,” by Sir Thomas Browne, “Paradise Lost,” by John Milton, the King…
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A Country Where ‘Some People Need Killing’ Was State Policy
The new book by the Philippine journalist Patricia Evangelista recounts her investigation into the campaign of extrajudicial murders under former…
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Jacqueline Woodson and Amber McBride Look Backward to Look Forward
“Remember Us” recalls the fires of 1970s Bushwick. “Gone Wolf” begins in a 2111 Southern breakaway nation after a second…
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Is It a Moral Awakening or Just One Man’s Midlife Crisis?
In Rupert Thomson’s new novel, “Dartmouth Park,” the sound of a mundane beep triggers in one man what may be…
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A Historical Novel That Is Also a Mash-Up of the Centuries
Adam Thirlwell’s “The Future Future” follows a 19-year-old socialite through a prerevolutionary Paris that looks suspiciously like our present day.
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Did the C.I.A. Kill Patrice Lumumba?
In “The Lumumba Plot,” the Foreign Affairs editor Stuart A. Reid asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in…
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A Russian Journalist’s Love Letter to Her People
“I Love Russia,” a collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s reporting over the past 15 years, captures the lives of ordinary, often…
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A History of Chinese Food, and a Sensory Feast
Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” is a cultural investigation of an impossibly broad and often misunderstood cuisine.
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Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.
“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to…