Books
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How Poetry and Performance Combined to Become a New Genre
In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to…
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Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris
As Annie Cohen-Solal shows in “Picasso the Foreigner,” the Spanish master was always under suspicion in France, simply for being…
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The Things They Left Behind: How the U.S. Laid Waste to Southeast Asia
George Black’s new book, “The Long Reckoning,” describes the environmental devastation of the Vietnam War.
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Real People, Reincarnated in the Pages of New Novels
One of the great attractions of historical fiction is its ability to approach the past from unexpected angles, allowing us…
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The Lonely Librarian, the Color of Melancholy, and Tangerines
An editor recommends old and new books.
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22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring
Watch for reality-bending explorations of time and space, a Western horror novel from Victor LaValle and new fiction from Han…
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19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring
New memoirs, a landmark biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a look at the woman who helped halt the rise…
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The Prophetic
I am a child of the church. In an early memory, I am 6 years old, half-asleep in the back…
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A Sculptor’s Disappearance, Narrated by Her ‘Less Beautiful’ Sister
Joyce Carol Oates’s overarching thematic obsession is violence and its ripple effects, treated brilliantly in novels like “A Book of…
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Learning to Hear What the Dead Have to Say
In “Still Life With Bones,” Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites…