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The Saturday Profile: Greeted as the First Great Millennial Author, and Wary of the Attention
Sally Rooney, a funny, cerebral Marxist from Dublin, wrote a novel about people like her. She didn’t expect it to be a smash hit.
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Bobby Lynn Maslen, Who Found Young Readers’ Wavelength, Dies at 87
Ms. Maslen created Bob Books, simple stories simply illustrated, and thereby helped teach countless youngsters to read.
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The Book Review: The Uses and Misuses of Identity
“Very often, the identity labels we use tell you much less than you might think,” Kwame Anthony Appiah says.
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Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Emily Dickinson’s letters and poems.
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The Shortlist: A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead
Four new books — from Peter Mayle, Eric Hazan, Mark Greenside and the team of Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell — explore the riches of Gallic culture.
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Fiction: ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’: A Literary Tale of Love and Obsession
In Ceridwen Dovey’s new novel, a wealthy benefactor and his much younger protégée resume contact after a 17-year break.
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Nonfiction: Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat
In “Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods,” the usually scathing critic William Logan unearths the historical context behind some beloved poems.
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Fiction: ‘The Garden Party’ Is a Tale of Mismatched Families, a Wedding and Lots of Wine
When the Barlows — eccentric academics — and the lawyerly Cohens meet at their children’s rehearsal dinner in Grace Dane Mazur’s novel, polite chatter soon skids off the rails.
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Fiction: Are Ben Marcus’s Dark and Disturbing New Stories the Literary Answer to ‘Black Mirror’?
“Notes From the Fog” features the author’s trademark humor and a vision of society both devastatingly bleak and seemingly plausible.
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Inside the List: He Wrote a Memoir About Infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Then Spike Lee Turned It Into a Film.
Ron Stallworth joined the Klan as a black detective working undercover in 1978. Now his memoir, “Black Klansman,” is a best seller — and an acclaimed film.
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New in Paperback: ‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Improvement’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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By the Book: By the Book: Ben Macintyre
The author, most recently, of ‘The Spy and the Traitor’ is moved by ‘discretion and modesty’ in literature: ‘As a very British sort of Briton, I have an affection for the stiff upper lip, the emotion unvoiced, the desire undeclared.’
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Profile: In ‘The Piranhas,’ the Chronicler of Italy’s Mobsters Tries His Hand at Fiction. For a Change?
In hiding for 12 years, Roberto Saviano is starting to realize that he’s not so different from the people he writes about. He’s not afraid to die, he wants to live, but he wants vengeance.
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Review: Meet the New Jack Ryan, Same as the Old Jack Ryan
Amazon Prime’s reboot of the Tom Clancy spy hero is still a Boy Scout and he’s still determined to save the world the American way.
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Children’s Books: Picture Books Tell Children the Harsh Stories of Migrants and Refugees
The dark, dangerous realities are not glossed over, but they’re presented with a gentle touch by these storytellers and artists.
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Fiction: Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time
In both Lea Carpenter’s “Red, White, Blue” and Dan Fesperman’s “Safe Houses,” a daughter learns more about the death of a parent who worked for the C.I.A.
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Newsbook: Need a Quick Read for Labor Day Weekend?
Here are three short novels to enjoy before summer is over.
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Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Profile: In a New Book of Sketches, Françoise Gilot Clears Her Mind of the Past
Picasso’s former lover and muse has a philosophy formed by nine decades of living. And forgetting.
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