Betty Rollin, Who Wrote Candidly About Her Breast Cancer, Dies at 87
Her coping with illness was the subject of a popular memoir, “First, You Cry.” In “Last Wish,” a best seller, she wrote about helping her mother end her life.
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Book Review: Children’s Books About Eyesight, Hearing and Literacy Challenges
What children who face eyesight, hearing and literacy challenges can decipher may be limited, but what they appreciate and celebrate knows no bounds.
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Book Review: ‘The Bars Are Ours,’ by Lucas Hilderbrand
In “The Bars Are Ours,” Lucas Hilderbrand offers a transcontinental look at a half-century of queer nightlife in America.
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Book Reviews: ‘Julian,’ by Philip Freeman; ‘Touch the Future,’ by John Lee Clark; and ‘Son of the Old West,’ by Nathan Ward
New books detail the lives of a politicking Roman emperor, people who communicate through touch and a man who helped make the American West into legend.
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Audiobook Review: ‘Worthy,’ by Jada Pinkett Smith
In “Worthy,” the actor recalls her gritty Baltimore upbringing, her early stardom, her marriage and her mental health.
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Charles Peters, Neoliberal Founder of The Washington Monthly, Dies at 96
His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades and added an important perspective for Washington’s cognoscenti.
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94
He led a movement that rejected historiography’s traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the “mental universe” of peasants, merchants and clergymen.
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Janet Evanovich Can Laugh at Her Own Mistakes
As her Stephanie Plum series hits a milestone with “Dirty Thirty,”, the prolific octogenarian looks back on a few bloopers.
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Interview: Mark Kurlansky
“There are too many books celebrating it,” says the author, whose new book is “The Core of an Onion.”
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