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Tens of thousands of manuscripts were smuggled out of Timbuktu under jihadists’ noses, containing a wealth of knowledge about science, governance and peace-making. Now the public is getting a look.
Many fiction writers wind up wishing they could redraft their early works. Akhil Sharma actually did.
Damien Lewis makes the case that the legendary cabaret star was a daring World War II-era spy.
Poetry, she said, can help the nation “become whole again” in a fraught, divided moment.
The stories in K-Ming Chang’s “Gods of Want” are obsessed with the hungers and precarities of emigration and queer love.
In her new novel, “Any Other Family,” Eleanor Brown shows how nonstop togetherness can lead to tension, injury and, occasionally, joy.
Zain Khalid’s “Brother Alive” follows three brothers from Staten Island to Saudi Arabia, with plenty to say about the modern world.
The author and filmmaker Rebecca Miller plays with notions of convention, comfort and surprise in her latest collection, “Total.”
Dan Fesperman’s “Winter Work” is set amid confusion and moral compromise in East Germany as Communism fell.
Chinelo Okparanta’s second novel attempts to skewer white liberal solipsism.
In “Circus of Dreams,” the literary editor John Walsh writes about the bookish life in London when Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Jeanette Winterson and their generation were in the increasingly bright limelight.
Meenakshi Ahamed’s “A Matter of Trust” traces the tangled, complicated and difficult relationship between two allies that are not quite friends.
Stephanie Johnson went from burlesque nights in Times Square to internet stardom. “I did it my way and it worked,” she said.
Nada Alic’s debut story collection pierces superficial appearances to access deeper human connection.
Ken Auletta looks for Weinstein’s Rosebud in this dispiriting account of the former movie mogul’s life.
In “Roll Red Roll,” Nancy Schwartzman revisits a teenage girl’s 2012 assault by high school football players, and its aftermath.
More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”
More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”
It’s a hard world out there for the protagonist of Teddy Wayne’s novel “The Great Man Theory.”
Our critic recommends old and new books.
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