Books
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A Punk Rocker Searches for His Bass and the Friend Who Stole It
Sam Lipsyte’s new novel, “No One Left to Come Looking for You,” centers on the 1990s music scene in downtown…
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How America Became Addicted to Exercise
In “Fit Nation,” Natalia Mehlman Petrzela charts the evolution of our national attitudes toward fitness.
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John le Carré’s Letters Show the Author at His Witty, Erudite and Pugilistic Best
“A Private Life,” a collection of correspondence spanning much of his life, offers a fresh look at his brilliance —…
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The 10 Best Books of 2022
Fiction The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan You don’t need to have read Egan’s Pulitzer-winning “A Visit From the Goon…
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Cormac McCarthy’s Unsettling Dream of a Novel
“Stella Maris” is the second of McCarthy’s two new books about grief, math and the nature of knowledge.
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Read Your Way Through Tangier
Credit...Raphaelle MacaronFirst, a warning: Tangier is not a place you visit only once. It will charm you, surprise you, make…
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Where Words Fail, Humor Glimmers
A HEART THAT WORKS, by Rob Delaney In his new memoir, “A Heart That Works,” the writer, actor and comedian…
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From Marguerite Duras, an Uncovered Tale of Young Womanhood
THE EASY LIFE, by Marguerite Duras, translated by Emma Ramadan and Olivia Baes Remember boredom? The first English translation of…
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Douglas Brinkley Would Like to Invite Thoreau to Dinner
What books are on your night stand? Two of Cesar Chavez’s favorites: “Loaves and Fishes,” by Dorothy Day, and “Faith…
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Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries
EAT YOUR MIND: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker, by Jason McBride Kathy Acker — proto-punk, tough-stemmed flower,…