Books
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A Picture Book Paean to the Golden Age of LPs
Kids don’t need to know what zydeco is, or that Mandy and the Meerkats are a nod to Diana Ross…
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Sex, Money and Séances: This 1922 Murder Had It All
A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have…
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R.O. Kwon: ‘I Want More of People’s Bodies, Especially in Fiction’
What books are on your night stand? If a big earthquake hits San Francisco, the pile on my night stand…
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How Conservatives Plotted Roe’s Downfall for Years, in Plain Sight
In “The Fall of Roe,” Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer explain exactly how Roe v. Wade was made — and…
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The 1990s Were Weirder Than You Think. We’re Feeling the Effects.
In “When the Clock Broke,” John Ganz shows how a decade remembered as one of placid consensus was roiled by…
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Witch Hunts, Wartime and Mysterious Murders
This trio of novels ushers readers into three different but equally mesmerizing long-ago worlds.
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Welcomed Into Joan Didion’s Home, if Not Her Inner Circle
In “The Uptown Local,” Cory Leadbeater describes his years as the late writer’s assistant and companion. Yet the fond portrait…
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She Moved Her Family to a Black Utopia. Then Things Got Weird.
In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is…
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Trump Nephew to Publish Memoir in July
Fred C. Trump III’s “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way” will hit shelves months…
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Get an Online Sex Account
Young, single and broke, a new mom finds creative ways to stay afloat in Rufi Thorpe’s deft comic novel “Margo’s…