Books
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What Can’t You Say These Days?
THE INDISPENSABLE RIGHT: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, by Jonathan Turley Conservative voices are being silenced. We know…
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Writers, the Wretched of the Earth
In Munir Hachemi’s novel “Living Things,” four young men seek adventure for “literary capital” and find exploitation.
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How Did We Learn to Talk? We Can’t Say for Sure.
In “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking.
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Anthony Fauci, a Hero to Some and a Villain to Others, Keeps His Cool
In a frank but measured memoir, “On Call,” the physician looks back at a career bookended by two public health…
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How Lesbians Found One Another, From the Softball Field to the Sex-Toy Shop
In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”
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A Hot, Fraught Cape Cod Family Drama
In her new novel, “Sandwich,” Catherine Newman explores the aches and joys of midlife via one family’s summer week at…
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Infidelity, Dysfunction, Secrets — This Family Novel Delivers
“Same as It Ever Was,” by Claire Lombardo, is a 500-page, multigenerational examination of the ties that bind.
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3 High-Octane Summer Thrillers
You’re not going to like Dr. Caroline Strange, the psychiatrist in Louisa Luna’s constantly surprising TELL ME WHO YOU ARE…
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He’s an Emergency Medical Worker Fighting to Save People From His Own Life
Joseph Earl Thomas’s new novel, “God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer,” follows a health care worker on a tumultuous shift where…
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A Proud Texan Reckons With Her State’s Complicated Past
In her new book, Jessica Goudeau confronts a history of racism and violence in Texas through an investigation of her…