Books
Book Deal for Pantsuit Nation, Facebook Page Supporting Hillary Clinton
The group was started in late October by a 33-year-old woman. The book will maintain the random feel of scrolling through a Facebook feed.
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Books of The Times: ‘Ethics in the Real World,’ Peter Singer’s Provocative Essays
Mr. Singer ruminates on sports doping, poverty, incest, religion and dozens of other topics in this collection of writings.
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Open Book: My Year in Reading
Highlights included four novels by Anita Brookner and two classics I neglected to read in school.
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How the ‘War on Christmas’ Controversy Was Created
The idea that the Christian holiday was under attack took hold among conservatives, inspiring political speeches, books and boycotts. Is the war over?
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57 Years Later, Even the Library Had Stopped Counting the Fines
A Brooklyn native checked out “Gone With the Wind” in 1959. After cross-country moves and raising four children, she returned the book to an amused and thankful branch.
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With Comic Book, Celebrities Pay Tribute to Orlando Victims
Proceeds from the book, which will be available next week, will benefit a fund for the victims of the shooting and their families.
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Forget ‘Pat the Bunny.’ My Child Is Reading Hemingway.
Some publishers are repurposing modern classics, making simplified picture books of them for children and cutting out the R-rated details.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Debriefing the President’ Tears Into the C.I.A.
This book by John Nixon, an analyst who interrogated Saddam Hussein, heavily criticizes the White House and the workings of the C.I.A.
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On Work: When a Writing Opportunity Knocks, Answer
A budding novelist learns the wisdom of taking a chance on wacky opportunities.
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The Shortlist: Essays
New books by Jace Clayton, Eliot Weinberger, Mary Oliver and Benjamin Percy.
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Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast: Inside The New York Times Book Review: Michael Lewis and Arianna Huffington
Michael Lewis discusses “The Undoing Project”; and Arianna Huffington talks about “Rest,” by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang.
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Children’s Books: Two New Chapter Books for Rookie Readers
In two books for early readers, lessons on the necessity and rewards of communication.
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Children’s Books: Four Exceptional Picture Books Bring On the Snow
Wintry weather sets the scene for the adventures of children and animals in four picture books.
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Roving Eye: After Brexit, Will the Novel Suffer?
Why should we suppose that literature and political liberalism are mutually sustaining? Four authors discuss.
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Crime: The Best and Latest in Crime Fiction
There’s a perverse symmetry to the way things work in Federico Axat’s mind-bending psychological thriller “Kill the Next One.”
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Fiction: A Historical Novel Recounts the Agony of Queen Anne
Joanne Limburg’s “A Want of Kindness” is built on a monarch’s letters and 18 stillbirths.
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Fiction: Edward Hoagland’s New Novel Draws on His Own Blindness
A soaring protagonist is brought low by degenerating vision in Edward Hoagland’s “In the Country of the Blind.”
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Nonfiction: Siri Hustvedt Views the Human Condition Through Art and Science
In the essays in “A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women,” Siri Hustvedt contemplates art, sex and science.
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Nonfiction: A New History Looks at a Time When Europe Came Together
Richard J. Evans’s “The Pursuit of Power” argues that nineteenth-century Europeans shared similar experiences but with strong local variations.
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