Book Review: ‘Enough Is Enuf,’ by Gabe Henry; ‘Pronoun Trouble,’ by John McWhorter
Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.
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Book Review: ‘The Imagined Life,’ by Andrew Porter
In “The Imagined Life,” a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.
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Brad Holland’s Disruptive Cartoons and Illustrations
His work pushed the boundaries of political cartoons, expanding the possibilities of illustration everywhere.
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Book Review: ‘Searches,’ by Vauhini Vara
“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.
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Book Review: ‘Vanishing World,’ by Sayaka Murata
Sayaka Murata’s novel “Vanishing World” envisions an alternate universe where artificial insemination is the global norm, and sex takes a back seat.
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Book Review: ‘Lower Than the Angels,’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch
In “Lower Than the Angels,” the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration.
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Book Review: ‘The Proof of My Innocence,’ by Jonathan Coe
“The Proof of My Innocence” starts as a political whodunit but soon expands into a collage of literary genres.
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89
Mr. Vargas Llosa, who ran for Peru’s presidency in 1990 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, transformed episodes from his personal life into books that reverberated far beyond the borders of his native country.
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Mario Vargas Llosa: An Appreciation
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the world’s savviest and most accomplished political novelist.
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Book Review: ‘The Fact Checker,’ by Austin Kelley
Austin Kelley gently lampoons high-minded magazines and the fragile men who work at them in his debut novel, “The Fact Checker.”
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