Books
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Beguiling Photos That Lift the Curtain on North Korea
The photographer Tariq Zaidi captures everyday images of a hidden society at work and at play.
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17 New Books Coming in June
Fire Exit, by Morgan Talty In Talty’s novel, Charles — who was raised on a Penobscot reservation in Maine before…
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Craig Johnson Wants to Give Longmire Fans the ‘Best 3 Minutes’ He Can
How do you organize your books? Like everything in my life, it’s kind of random. I’ve got reading stations all…
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Congress Signed the Checks, but Artists Paid the Price
In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work…
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Why Are Divorce Memoirs Still Stuck in the 1960s?
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
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Feeling Lonely? Grouchy? Murderous? There’s a Spell for That.
In “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore takes us back to a time when the use of “service magic” was an everyday…
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The Brilliant Comic Who Shined Brightest Out of the Spotlight
A new biography of the performer, writer and director Elaine May has the intensity to match its subject.
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Divorced, Disheveled and Hiking Toward Love
In David Nicholls’s “You Are Here,” a boggy trek through the English countryside becomes an unlikely impetus for midlife romance.
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An Erotic Story of Love and Obsession in 1960s Amsterdam
An unlikely romance blooms in Yael van der Wouden’s tricky, remarkable novel, “The Safekeep.”
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The Women of Greek Myths Are Finally Talking Back
Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets…