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Nonfiction: What Makes a City: A Highly Subjective, Idiosyncratic New York Atlas
New York’s history, languages and people are communicated through maps in “Nonstop Metropolis,” edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
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Nonfiction: Arianna Huffington on a Book About Working Less, Resting More
In “Rest,” Alex Soojung-Kim Pang explains that quality downtime is crucial to productivity and fulfillment.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Normal’ Looks Into the Abyss and Finds the Future
This Warren Ellis novel about a sanitarium of futurologists is efficient and alive, but at times clichéd.
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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
The musician, who did not attend the ceremony, said he was honored and recognized that he was “in very rare company.”
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Bob Dylan Sends Warm Words but Skips Nobel Prize Ceremonies
The musician’s statement, read in Stockholm by the American ambassador to Sweden, explained his two-week silence after the honor was announced in October.
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Dylan, Polite? It Ain’t Him, Babe
Bob Dylan’s Nobel no-show leaves the Swedish Academy to deny that it’s insulted.
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High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs
A German writer tells how he unearthed a startling fact about the Third Reich for his best-selling book, “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany.”
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Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast: Inside The New York Times Book Review: The 10 Best Books of 2016
Editors at the Book Review talk about the year’s best books; Stefan Hertmans talks about “War and Turpentine”; and Ian McGuire discusses “The North Water.”
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Up Next: Meet Fabiola Alondra, a Fashionable Art Book Publisher on the Rise
The 32-year-old is the director of 303 in Print, a publishing imprint from 303 Gallery that commissions and produces limited-edition printed matter.
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R.L. Stine to Write Man-Thing Series for Marvel
Mr. Stine says that writing stories about this swamp monster is something of a lifelong dream and that readers should expect violence and creepy fun.
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Fiction: ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’: Fiction by an Author Who Died Young
Reclaiming the short fiction of Kathleen Collins.
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Nonfiction: Empire of Tolerance
In “Genghis Khan and the Quest for God,” the anthropologist Jack Weatherford argues that the separation of church and state is, at its root, a Mongol notion.
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Nonfiction: Neither War Nor Peace: A New Look at the Aftermath of World War I
Robert Gerwarth’s “The Vanquished” is about the continuing conflict in the years following the end of World War I.
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Nonfiction: A Free-Spirited Family Gave Rise to Oscar Wilde
“The Fall of the House of Wilde,” by Emer O’Sullivan, asks if Oscar’s apple fell far from the family tree.
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Nonfiction: In Defense of the Analog
David Sax’s “The Revenge of Analog” is about how digital and analog can get along.
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Nonfiction: French Lessons: Seminal Works by Mallarmé and Camus
Seminal works by Camus and Mallarmé receive full-length treatments in Alice Kaplan’s “Looking for ‘The Stranger’” and R. Howard Bloch’s “One Toss of the Dice.”
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Nonfiction: Found: 148 Diaries. But Who Wrote Them?
In “A Life Discarded,” the biographer Alexander Masters sets out to learn who wrote scores of journals found in a trash bin.
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Nonfiction: How a Boxer Fought Free After Years of Wrongful Imprisonment
“Stand Tall,” written by Dewey Bozella with Tamara Jones, is the memoir of a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder.
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Nonfiction: The Complicated Life of Beryl Bainbridge
Brendan King’s biography of the British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, whose life was full of romantic drama.
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Nonfiction: When Pushkin Came to Shove: How Nabokov and Edmund Wilson Fell Out Over a Poem
Alex Beam’s amusing “The Feud” tells the story of how a literary friendship ended over a translation of Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin.”
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