Books
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Patricia Engel’s Enduring Friendships Always Include Books
What books are on your night stand? “The Easy Life,” by Marguerite Duras, “Small Things Like These,” by Claire Keegan,…
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R.F. Kuang Is Curious About Something …
The author of “Babel” likes to raise questions that bother her — ones she hopes will bother her readers too.
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Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’
Nearly six months after he was brutally attacked, Rushdie is recovering and releasing a new novel, with the literary world…
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In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost
In his latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding reimagines the history of a small mixed-race community’s devastating eviction…
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John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now
Martin Riker’s novel “The Guest Lecture” details a tortured night inside the head of a young economist.
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The Thrill of Plot or the Richness of Detail? Try Both.
Laurent Mauvignier’s “The Birthday Party” is a thriller with an intense focus on its characters’ interior worlds.
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Closing the Book on Promises to Myself
This year’s resolution: No more worrying about all the volumes I know I’ll never read.
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Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors.
In Kathryn Ma’s new novel, “The Chinese Groove,” an overly optimistic Chinese man migrates to America to find connection and…
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Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic
BLACK AND FEMALE: Essays, by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s oeuvre has been defined by her…
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Hilderbabes Take Nantucket
On a Friday night in January, Elin Hilderbrand strode into the ballroom of the Nantucket Hotel wearing a fuchsia sundress,…