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For fiction writers, keeping up with technological and political change in their work is a risky proposition. But nowadays it is more essential than ever.
An illustrated history of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s failed attempt to garner the support of the intelligentsia for his impending war.
In “The Only Girl in the World,” Maude Julien describes a series of horrors growing up the daughter of a man who believed he was sculpting her into a superior being.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to reviews in previous issues.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: What will the end of the world look like?
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
How the monologuist inspired a best-selling paint. A dog is also involved.
Daniel Ellsberg’s “The Doomsday Machine” is a passionate call for reducing the risk of total destruction.
In “Windfall,” Meghan O’Sullivan offers a tour of the world and how the rise of cheap gas and fracking are causing shifts in power.
At the beginning of his career, James Rollins, author of ‘The Demon Crown,’ stole Samuel Clemens’s pen name.
In “The Great Quake,” Henry Fountain recounts what we learned from North America’s biggest temblor. In “Quakeland,” Kathryn Miles takes a fault-eye view of the continent.
Three books examine our fascination with the ancient pachyderms and their extinction.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around The Times are reading.
New releases in speculative fiction include a viral dystopia, a fantasy kingdom ruled by magic, a lesbian pulp noir satire and a classic revisited.
In “Ghosts of the Tsunami,” Richard Lloyd Parry probes the emotional effects of the catastrophe that killed thousands of men, women and children.
From the humorous to the mysterious, dystopian to sorrowful, novels and stories that reveal the wide range of literary theology.
How James Baldwin’s incendiary work illuminated his era, as well as ours.
A new class of editors is quietly reshaping children’s literature, vetting books for cultural and racial stereotypes before they reach readers.
Worried that he couldn’t work as an illustrator, Loren Long hid his “obstacle.” Now it’s out in the open.
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