Books
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Deal to Merge Two Publishing Giants Is on the Verge of Collapse
Penguin Random House’s deal to buy Simon & Schuster, a rival publisher, is close to collapsing after Simon & Schuster’s…
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In ‘G-Man,’ a J. Edgar Hoover as Complex as the Country He Served
G-MAN: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage J. Edgar Hoover, who served as…
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‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40
In 1981, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez were living in Oxnard, Calif., working as janitors to fund the trips they took…
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Sent From David Hockney’s iPad
A continent away from his perennially sunny Los Angeles poolscapes of the 1960s and ’70s, the British artist David Hockney,…
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What Books Does Haruki Murakami Find Disappointing? His Own.
What books are on your night stand? Michael Connelly’s “The Brass Verdict.” It’s a hard-bound copy I bought for a…
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Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll
THE WHALEBONE THEATRE, by Joanna Quinn Whales loom large not just in the ocean but in landlocked imaginations: these mysterious…
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A Formative Friendship Cut Short by Tragedy
STAY TRUE: A Memoir, by Hua Hsu. One of the funny things about adolescence is that the world can seem…
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She Lost Her Brother Years Ago. Why Does She Keep Seeing Him?
THE FURROWS: An Elegy, by Namwali Serpell “Have you ever walked between two great big airplane hangars and it made…
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A Writer Who Stared Down Her Past, and the World’s, With Steely Resolve
For many readers, the portal into Hilary Mantel’s work was “Wolf Hall” (2009), the first volume of an astonishing trilogy…
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7 Audiobooks to Listen to Now
🎧 Uncultured: A Memoir By Daniella Mestyanek Young, with Brandi Larsen. Read by the author. Raised in the Children of…