50 Years Ago, ‘Jaws’ Hit Bookstores, Capturing the Angst of a Generation
The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.
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9 Picture Books About Moving
Sometimes we forget that moving is not just about goodbyes. It’s also about hellos.
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Book Review: ‘My Glorious Defeats,’ by Barrett Brown
In his picaresque memoir, “My Glorious Defeats,” the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.
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Who Is Elena Ferrante, Really?
The pseudonymous Italian author has become a worldwide phenomenon. But speculation about who she really is has followed her for years.
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Our Critic’s Take on the 100 List: Books That ‘Cast a Sustained Spell’
Dwight Garner writes that voters, who “seemed to want a break from contemporary social reportage,” looked for immersive reads.
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6 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Dan Collins, 80, Author Who Rejected View of Giuliani as a 9/11 Hero, Dies
A journalist and author, he helped write a revisionist account of Rudolph Giuliani’s role as mayor before and after the terrorist attacks.
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Reagan Arthur Returns to Hachette
Arthur, the former publisher of Knopf, is joining Hachette Book Group to start and run a new imprint.
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Book Review: ‘The Coin,’ by Yasmin Zaher
In Yasmin Zaher’s “The Coin,” a rich, chic Palestinian schoolteacher in New York City grapples with displacement and American consumerism.
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It Took 22 Years for Kevin Barry to Unlock His First U.S.-Set Novel
Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to me.”
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