Book Review: ‘Stone Blind,’ by Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes’s new novel, “Stone Blind,” continues her retellings of Greek legends, this one featuring the snake-haired Gorgon, long a symbol of female monstrosity.
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Book Review: ‘A Spell of Good Things,’ by Ayòbámi Adébáyò
In Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s “A Spell of Good Things,” the lives of a working-class boy and a wealthy young doctor converge to expose the precarity of the social order.
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What Does It Mean to Be Liberal?
In his new book, “The Struggle for a Decent Politics,” the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition.
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Book Review: “B.F.F.,” by Christie Tate
In her new memoir, “B.F.F.,” Christie Tate looks at her history of failed platonic relationships and learns something about herself.
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Book Review: ‘Someone Else’s Shoes,’ by Jojo Moyes
In “Someone Else’s Shoes,” Jojo Moyes puts a fresh spin on the classic plot where characters swap circumstances.
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As Wallace Stevens Once Put It: Hi!
Poetic beginnings — first lines, or first poems in collections — do a lot of work in setting the tone and the reader’s expectations.
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Book Review: ‘Big Swiss,’ by Jen Beagin
In Jen Beagin’s “Big Swiss,” a sex therapist’s transcriptionist fantasizes about sleeping with a married female patient, who also happens to go to her dog park.
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A Look Ahead at the Season’s Big Books
Gilbert Cruz and Tina Jordan discuss the upcoming books they’re most excited to read in the next few months.
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Review: ‘An Assassin in Utopia,’ by Susan Wels
Susan Wels’s “An Assassin in Utopia” links President Garfield’s killer to the atmosphere of free love and religious fervor that gripped Oneida, N.Y., in the late 1800s.
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Brazil’s Lula Promised ‘More Books in Place of Guns.’ Can He Deliver?
In his first terms as president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expanded the scope of who could get published in the country, and who could access books. His return to the presidency comes with expectations, and hurdles.
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