Books
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A Child’s Island of Wonder, as Fascism Rises
THE WILDCAT BEHIND GLASS, by Alki Zei. Translated by Karen Emmerich. Of all the genres of the past century of…
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One Man’s Quest for ‘Photographic Justice’
A new book from the legendary lensman Corky Lee captures both struggle and celebration across several decades of Asian American…
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In a Poem, Just Who Is ‘the Speaker,’ Anyway?
Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so…
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Neil Gaiman Has a Hero Out of Step in a Book Out of Time
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a…
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Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the…
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Uncovering What Audubon Missed, and What He Made Up
In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
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The Teenage Witches Are Growing Up
New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.
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Pulitzer Prizes 2024: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.
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Brittney Griner, in Her Own Words
COMING HOME, by Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford If you weren’t following women’s basketball, you probably hadn’t heard of Brittney…
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The Plucky Irish Heroine of ‘Brooklyn’ Is Back — and in Crisis
Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in “Long Island,” Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his…