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Nonfiction: A Biography Reveals Surprising Sides to Haiti’s Slave Liberator
Philippe Girard’s “Toussaint Louverture” is a sophisticated and anti-mythological biography.
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Nonfiction: Looking to the Future of Our Humans-First World
In “The Unnatural World,” David Biello scouts for ideas on how we might now live on a planet that our grandparents won’t recognize for long.
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The Shortlist: Literatura
New books by Mauro Javier Cardenas, Carlos Fonseca, Claudia Salazar Jiménez and Gonzalo Torné.
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The Story Behind This Week’s Best Sellers
Lauren Graham, the “Gilmore Girls” actress whose new memoir is No. 3 on the hardcover nonfiction list, says she has carefully calibrated just how revealing she wants to be.
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Open Book: Top of the Class
We cap a tumultuous year with some good news: our 10 Best Books of 2016.
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading by book critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Kathleen Collins’s Short Stories Were Almost Lost to History
In a traveling trunk, a daughter discovered her mother’s lost literary legacy. Now, nearly 30 years after Ms. Collins’s death, a collection has been published.
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Books of The Times: Review: In ‘The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma,’ a Search for Release
A woman in Delhi whose brain has been annexed by worry craves an escape.
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Cookbooks: The Year’s Best Baking Cookbooks: Radical Ideas, Classic Treats
Six dessert books push the genre into new territory.
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Libraries Become Unexpected Sites of Hate Crimes
The president of the American Library Association said there had been “startling increases” in vandalism, including hateful messages, at libraries in 2016.
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By the Book: Dava Sobel: By the Book
The science writer says that while researching her new book, “The Glass Universe,” she read fiction about the time period, such as “The Custom of the Country” and “O Pioneers!”
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Nonfiction: What Does Netanyahu Really Want?
“The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu,” by Neill Lochery, looks at Netanyahu’s leadership of Israel.
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Nancy Mairs, Who Wrote About Her Mental Illness and Multiple Sclerosis, Dies at 73
Ms. Mairs chronicled her fears and hopes in intensely personal essays and memoirs, looking at her life, and her infirmities, with an unblinking eye.
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Robert A. Wilson, 94, Whose Bookshop Was Poets’ Sanctuary, Dies
Among the figures he knew as owner of the Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village were Gertrude Stein, W.H. Auden, William S. Burroughs, Edward Albee, Allen Ginsberg and Patti Smith.
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She Brings Comic Book Characters to Life
How a comic book aficionado uses her own body as a canvas.
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Nonfiction: George J. Mitchell on Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy
In “A Path to Peace,” two American officials, George J. Mitchell and Alon Sachar, recall Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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List of Five: The Straightforward Style of the Polymathic B.J. Novak
He writes. He acts. He developed an app. And he wears clothes.
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Fiction: Judas, Jesus and Politics: Amos Oz’s New Novel
Amos Oz’s “Judas” reconsiders the label of “traitor.”
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