Nonfiction: How Martin Luther King Persuaded John Kennedy to Support the Civil Rights Cause
In “Kennedy and King,” Steven Levingston tells the story of an ardent activist, a cautious President, and leadership of a curious nature.
Critic’s Take: The Joy of Reading About Cooking
Tejal Rao on the deep comfort of reading cookbooks.
'I Want The Pages To Turn': Librarian Nancy Pearl's Summer Reading List
Ahead of the July 4th weekend, the Seattle-based librarian shares a stack of eight recent favorites. She includes thrillers, mysteries, family sagas and an homage to the game rock, paper, scissors.
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Cultural Appropriation Is, In Fact, Indefensible
Recently, the New York Times published an essay defending cultural appropriation as necessary engagement. But that's a simplistic, misguided way of looking at appropriation, which causes real harm.
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Multiple Narratives Mean Non-Stop Action In 'The Child'
Fiona Barton's latest — a followup to last year's hit The Widow — picks up with journalist Kate Waters as she digs into another cold case, this one an infant skeleton found at a building site.
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Maria’s Picks: Board Books to Get Babies Talking
The Times’ children’s book editor, Maria Russo, picks 9 adorable books made for infants and toddlers that can help them make the leap to language.
Nonfiction: Tracing the Origins of the New York Police Department
In “Law and Disorder: The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD,” Bruce Chadwick reveals how incompetent constables, riots and rising crime convinced New Yorkers they needed an official police force.
Fiction: The Characters in Ann Beattie’s New Stories Are Boomers in a Millennial World
Ann Beattie’s latest story collection takes her familiar baby boomer characters and maroons them in 21st-century social and political disarray.
In 'Amatka,' A Warped And Chilling Portrait Of Post-Truth Reality
Karin Tidbeck's new novel is set in the mysterious city of Amatka, an agricultural colony ruled by a totalitarian government — but this is no standard dystopia. In Amatka, language has strange power.
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Books News: Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals First Book Acquisition, and Her A.L.A. Book Club Pick
Her first acquisition, by the debut novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza, follows an Indian-American family.
Nonfiction: A Life of Toscanini, Maestro With Passion and Principles
In his new biography, “Toscanini: Musician of Conscience,” Harvey Sachs presents a demanding but tenderhearted genius who stood up to fascism and hate.
The Shortlist: Four Timely Memoirs from the Halls of Medicine
Four doctors—a nephrologist, a pediatrician, a cardiologist and a psychiatrist—on what ails their patients and their profession.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: What Books Best Capture Science and Nature?
A book club focused on literature of the environment, from nature memoirs to natural history and science, seeks to expand its reading list.
Op-Ed Contributor: Why Grown-Up Muggles Should Read ‘Harry Potter’
On the 20th anniversary of J.K. Rowling’s series, a superfan explains why the books still make him cry.
Nonfiction: Why America’s Great Cities Are Becoming More Economically Segregated
In “The New Urban Crisis,” Richard Florida argues that the revival of central cities has made them more unequal and more segregated.
Fiction: From City to Jungle, a New Novel Summons the Politics and History of Two Islands
Northern Ireland and Papua New Guinea don’t seem so different in Nick Laird’s new novel, “Modern Gods.”
An Ancient Curse Awakens In 'The Suffering Tree'
A family curse, a resurrection and a vengeful witch are at the center of Elle Cosimano's Southern Gothic chiller The Suffering Tree. But the book elides its setting's history of racial violence.
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'Too Fat, Too Slutty' Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women
Anne Helen Petersen's new book is a thoughtful consideration of several public women — from Nicki Minaj to Hillary Clinton — who've run up against the invisible expectations our culture has of them.
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'The Force' Is Basically 'Game Of Thrones' With Cops — And That's Pretty Great
Don Winslow's new novel is packed with crooked cops and crookeder crooks, all defending their territories and trying to maintain a status quo where everyone earns, everyone eats and no wars break out.
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20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline
From “The Vagina Monologues” to “The End of Eddy,” here are 25 books by and about L.G.B.T.Q. individuals that have shaped the genre.
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