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Reintroducing Captain America and Dr. Manhattan
Comic books are gaining two new villains on Wednesday, though they are both familiar faces.
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Talk: B.J. Novak Thinks Actors Are Bad at Playing Writers
The actor and app developer on democratizing writing, why Ethan Hawke is too hot to be a writer and avenging his ghostwriter father’s anonymity.
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Books of The Times: Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia
This oral history by Svetlana Alexievich, the Nobel laureate, examines life after the Soviet Union’s collapse led to the rise of a feral capitalism.
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More Than 400 Writers Sign Petition Protesting Donald Trump
Stephen King and Amy Tan were two of the bigger names on a letter saying Mr. Trump was appealing to the darkest elements in American society.
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Fiction: ‘Sweetbitter,’ by Stephanie Danler
A hard-partying woman reinvents herself in the world of New York fine dining.
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Nonfiction: ‘Jane Doe January’ and ‘I Will Find You’
Two women write books piecing together decades-old sexual attacks.
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Bookends: Who Gets to Tell Other People’s Stories?
Anna Holmes and James Parker debate the line between empathy and exploitation.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘The Morning They Came for Us’ Reports on the Hell of Syria
Janine di Giovanni describes the horror and terror Syrians have endured in the five years since a government crackdown on protests erupted into a civil war.
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Nonfiction: ‘East West Street,’ by Philippe Sands
The story of two ideas about international justice and the men who brought them to life.
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Timothy Garton Ash Puts Forth a Free-Speech Manifesto
Mr. Garton Ash’s book “Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World” offers his thoughts on activism, limits and defying threats.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘We Were Feminists Once,’ on a Movement Co-Opted
Andi Zeisler’s book looks at the “mainstream, celebrity, consumer embrace of feminism” and fears that fake issues are diverting women from real ones.
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Nonfiction: ‘Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World,’ by Timothy Garton Ash
Ten guiding tenets frame a call for “more and better free speech.”
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Fritz Stern, a Leading Historian on Modern Germany, Dies at 90
German-born and a longtime professor at Columbia University, Mr. Stern identified themes and intellectual currents that led to Germany’s drift toward totalitarianism.
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Sunday Routine: How Emma Straub, Novelist, Spends Her Sundays
Ms. Straub, whose book “Modern Lovers” comes out this month, wakes up early with her husband and two young kids, watches cheesy television and always keeps a good mozzarella on hand for pizza.
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Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone
The writer Svetlana Alexievich, the author of oral histories who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, has given voice to thousands of ordinary Russians.
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Book Entry: Review: The Rise of the ‘Matchmakers’ of the Digital Economy
Three books explore the business models of companies that serve as multisided platforms that connect advertisers to consumers.
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Books of Style: Excavating Family Histories, in Two New Memoirs
A peek at “The Bridge Ladies” and “Finding Fontainebleau.”
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Podcast: Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast: ‘The Romanovs’
Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses his new history of the Romanovs, and Laura Miller talks about new audiobooks of childhood favorites.
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My Bookshelf, Myself: My 10 Favorite Books: Bill Gates
The businessman and philanthropist shares the titles he’d most want with him on a desert island.
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Fiction: ‘A Country Road, a Tree,’ by Jo Baker
Jo Baker’s novel focuses on Samuel Beckett’s years in wartime France, on the run from the Gestapo.
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