Books
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Holly Jackson’s Maximization of Google Maps
In her “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” series and “Five Survive,” this British author makes herself at home on…
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Jill McCorkle Is Getting Over Her ‘Henry James Phobia’
What books are on your night stand? “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s…
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Read Your Way Through Utah
Utah is a place of paradoxes, full of terrible beauty and complicated history. The writer Terry Tempest Williams recommends books…
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The Word That Undid Claudine Gay
The fate of Harvard’s president is the latest evidence of a deep crisis in American academia.
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16th-Century Beauty Secrets, Revealed
In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era — and…
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The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust
When the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk sat down for his profanity-laced interview at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit in…
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Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires?
This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket.
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The Saucy Polymath Who Scandalized 17th-Century London
PURE WIT: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish, by Francesca Peacock Margaret Cavendish was an intrepid and prolific writer of…
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A Hopeful Reminder: You’re Going to Die
Fifty years on, Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death” remains an essential, surprisingly upbeat guide to our final act on…
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Mightier — and Meaner — Than the Sword
Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.