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“Only then can I surrender to the spell of reading,” says the director of “Glory” and the author of “Hits, Flops and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”
The French president’s decision brought relief to the sellers who have long operated near the Seine, and avoided a standoff.
Dabbling in the Anne de Courcy extended universe.
A story collection from Diane Oliver, who died at 22, locates the strength in Black families surviving their separate but equal surroundings.
A devastating 2020 fire on the island of Lesbos is the springboard for a meditation on origin stories, borders and migration in Lauren Markham’s “A Map of Future Ruins.”
In her memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name,” the author reflects on her life and embarking on a gender transition in her late 60s.
In “Smoke and Ashes,” Amitav Ghosh sources the colonial roots of a crisis.
If you’re craving comfort — or connection — pick up one of these books.
“The Hammer” offers portraits of organizing efforts from around the country at a time when the future of union power has reached an inflection point.
His charming memoir “What Have We Here?” traces the path from a Harlem childhood to “Star Wars,” while lamenting the roles that never came his way.
Rae Giana Rashad imagines an alternate America in her first novel, “The Blueprint.”
“The Freaks Came Out to Write” is an oral history of America’s most important alternative weekly.
In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in the United States.
In “The Book of Love,” the Pulitzer finalist and master of short stories pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be.
In her novels and story collections, she took a sharp, lightly ironic look at the class from which she came, the Southern upper bourgeoisie.
With Burton and Taylor as stars and a writer and director feuding, adapting the scabrous play wasn’t easy. “Cocktails With George and Martha” pours out the details.
From England and France to the deepest Arctic and northern China, these stories will transport you.
Scrappy domestic novellas and a novel about the unhappy rich.
The “Aya” series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.
On the 25th anniversary of the director’s death, two film scholars have published “Kubrick: An Odyssey.”
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