Books
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A Stunning Visual Celebration of Black Rodeo
In several frames of the artist Arthur Jafa’s seminal 2016 video collage of Black America, “Love Is the Message, the…
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Spooks, Sleuths and the Nazi Origins of the War on Drugs
In the years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland,…
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Lord Byron Was Hard to Pin Down. That’s What Made Him Great.
This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase…
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Quick. Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum…
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Marjane Satrapi on Resistance in Iran: ‘A Real Revolution Is Cultural’
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired…
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This Poet Flirts With Sentimentality, but Averts It With Wit
In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the…
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Parenting in a Pandemic, and Other Tales of Woe
Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
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Hundreds of Small Presses Just Lost Their Distributor. Now What?
A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the…
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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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