Books
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The Sound of Sonny
Aidan Levy has written a revealing, comprehensive biography of the improviser-hero Sonny Rollins.
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A Belarusian Writer Who Calls for Poems Made of Barbed Wire
In “Motherfield,” her first collection to appear in English, Julia Cimafiejeva grapples with questions of language, nationalism and oppression.
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A Biracial Family Risks Persecution in 1920s Cape Town
Resoketswe Manenzhe’s debut novel, “Scatterlings,” witnesses the dissolution of a young family in the wake of South Africa’s Immorality Act,…
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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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Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted to Books
Launched in 1994, the magazine published reviews, essays and interviews, and was an important outlet for book reviewers and for…
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When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others
Jefferson Cowie’s powerful and sobering new history, “Freedom’s Dominion,” traces the close association between the rhetoric of liberty in an…
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A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’
This new collection from Britain’s Daily Telegraph is full of oddballs, mavericks and cranks.
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2022 Reading Picks From Times Staff Critics
The books they read this year that have stayed with them.
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No John, No George, No Ringo, but Still a Lot to Say
“The McCartney Legacy” follows the superstar from the last gasp of the Beatles to “Band on the Run.” It’s 700…
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The Best Crime Novels of 2022
Our columnist, who’s read dozens of books this year, selects her favorites.