Books
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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A Dazzling Humorist Returns With a Deep Dive Into Loss
In her new memoir, “Grief Is for People,” Sloane Crosley works through the death of a beloved friend and mentor.
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Billy Dee Williams Is the Best Kind of Name-Dropper — a Bookish One
In his memoir, “What Have We Here?,” the actor writes about his friendships with Hollywood icons and literary lions.
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Publishing Pledged to Diversify. Change Has Been Slow.
A new survey shows that more people of color are working in the book business, but the industry remains overwhelmingly…
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The Essential James Baldwin
James Baldwin would have turned 100 on Aug. 2 this year. His final works were published almost 40 years ago,…
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In a Novelist’s Hands, a Herstory of England Is Delicious — but Not Sweet
In “Normal Women,” Philippa Gregory gives us nine centuries of real-life heroines, murderers, boxers and brides.
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The War Orphan and the Warmongering Alien
New books by Seth Dickinson, Heather Fawcett and Ray Nayler.
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The Authorities Don’t Need A.I. When Your Neighbors Will Narc on You
In “Means of Control” and “The Sentinel State,” modern governments wield high-tech snooping gear while relying on old methods of…
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High-Stakes Capers Starring Low-Wage Workers
HELP WANTED, by Adelle Waldman GREEN DOT, by Madeleine Gray The modern workplace contains and fuels so much of our…
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He Rescued 1.5 Million Yiddish Books. Now He Will Have Time to Read Some.
Aaron Lansky was a young graduate student in Montreal in the late 1970s when he had an epiphany that changed…