Books
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A Horror Story Starring the Monstrous Men of Camelot
Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.
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A Summer Home in Maine With Centuries-Old Secrets — and a Ghost
J. Courtney Sullivan’s “The Cliffs” is a haunted house mystery steeped in historical context.
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4 Great Fictional Detectives
You’d think that one of crime fiction’s prevailing ideas — that chaos can be transformed into order — would mesh…
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16 New Books Coming in July
The Cliffs, by J. Courtney Sullivan A dilapidated lavender mansion, perched high on a craggy bluff in Maine, turns out…
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Hoot, Howl and Sneeze: 6 Picture Books for Maximum Read-Aloud Joy
From silly rhymes to lively sound effects to stealthily-building suspense, these old standbys and new classics have something for everyone.
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Ghosts, Haunted Dreams and the Devil Himself in 4 New Horror Books
Our columnist reviews June’s horror releases.
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6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Emily Henry on Writing Best-Sellers Without Tours and TikTok
Emily Henry has never been on a book tour or done a traditional bookstore reading. She’s not on TikTok. Her…
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Gabrielle Zevin Loves Edith Wharton, but Not ‘Ethan Frome’
What books are on your night stand? This is a terribly personal question! As an author, I’ve brazenly talked about…
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Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.
A brisk new biography by the National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles aims to restore the iconic freedom fighter to…