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This sweetly romantic YA romp isn’t as subversive as its predecessor. It’s still enormous fun.
Coates’s debut novel has exquisite sentences and ideas, but the rest is a mess.
The Year of the Monkey is about 2016, and the intertwining of personal and national grief.
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Oprah who?
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Tamsyn Muir’s debut novel is sharp, unsettling, and so much fun.
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Mattis shunned the press as Pentagon chief. He loves it now that he’s selling a book.
The online retailer broke a giant publishing embargo, but it probably won’t face consequences.
The Testaments is enormous fun to read. But it’s not great the way The Handmaid’s Tale is.
A Handmaid’s Tale sequel and an anticipated debut: Here’s your fall reading, chosen by Goodreads.
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His recommendations include the works of Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys and Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women.
Gerwig reunites with her Lady Bird stars Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet in the upcoming film.
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The adaptation of a classic tween book series is also about ... Vietnam.
It’s an American horror story.
“No one was surprised.”
In her debut essay collection, New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino looks for ways to live ethically in the world of the scam.
Morrison built the black American canon, both as a novelist and as an editor.
Through masterworks like Beloved, Morrison explored America’s fractured identity.
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Gretchen McCulloch uncovers the secret rules behind keyboard smashes and what we mean when we say “lol.”
On the latest Recode Decode, John Fallon explains why the education company is pivoting to digital textbooks.
The most well-known passage Marianne Williamson wrote has some disconcerting implications.
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Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists, talks to Ezra Klein about the power and purpose of utopian thinking.
A face-perfecting app only widens the gap between our digital and real selves.
It took author Lisa Taddeo a decade to write it.
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Whitehead’s follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning Underground Railroad exhumes the unmarked graves of a hellish Florida reform school.
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An excerpt from Last Witnesses, an oral history of World War II in Russia.
Our panel debates Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel, from dating apps to Presidentrix.
E. Jean Carroll’s oeuvre shows us how dramatically the way we talk about women’s pain has changed.
Critic Emily Nussbaum on the charms of modern television-watching.