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Books of The Times: Review: Bresson and the Elliptical Economies of a Master Filmmaker
A look at the collection “Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983” and Robert Bresson’s own “Notes on the Cinematograph.”
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‘Ferrante Fever’ Continues to Spread
The latest figures from Elena Ferrante’s publisher show that her Neapolitan novels have now sold some 5.5 million copies worldwide.
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Egos: All in the Family
What to do if your father is the Super Mario Brothers bandit, or a narcissistic biologist who collects scorpions? Or if your blind black parents join a white-supremacist church?
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Critic’s Take: Why There’s No ‘Millennial’ Novel
As the oldest of us millennials begin to flee screaming from our 20s, where’s our “voice of a generation” novel?
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BookCourt, a Literary Cornerstone in Brooklyn, Is Closing
Bookstore owners, who invested 35 years in the literary community and the Cobble Hill neighborhood, will close its doors at the end of the month.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain
Paul Bloom is by no means making the case for heartlessness in his new book. He prefers a mixture of caring and detached cost-benefit analysis.
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Ryan Holiday Sells Stoicism as a Life Hack, Without Apology
Mr. Holiday, who was an aggressive marketer for Dov Charney’s American Apparel, has repackaged a 2,300-year-old philosophy as a self-help strategy for athletes, entrepreneurs and hip-hop artists.
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Rites of Passage: Ode to Leonard Cohen, From a Fellow Zen Monk
His monk’s name was Jikan, which means “noble silence.” That’s what we hear from him now.
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Pursuits: Ann Patchett’s Guide for Bookstore Lovers
If bookstores are a must on your travel itinerary, Ann Patchett has a road map for you.
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Nonfiction: From Michael Lewis, the Story of Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About the Way We Think
In “The Undoing Project,” Michael Lewis tells the story of the friendship and work of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, and how they changed our understanding of human rationality.
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Books of The Times: ‘The Revenge of Analog’: See It. Feel It. Touch It. (Don’t Click)
David Sax asserts that analog isn’t going anywhere, but is, in fact, experiencing a bracing revival. And it’s not just a case of nostalgia.
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Nonfiction: Two New Books Shed Light on the Kennedy Mystique
“Twenty-Six Seconds,” by Alexandra Zapruder, and “JFK and the Masculine Mystique,” by Steven Watts are more instructive about our own era than Kennedy’s.
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Bob Dylan Speech Will Be Read at the Nobel Prize Ceremonies
The musician Patti Smith will perform a song by Mr. Dylan, who will not be attending the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for literature.
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Nonfiction: Pondering Our Mad Futures With the British Columnist Caitlin Moran
“Moranifesto” is a collection of columns by Caitlin Moran, one of Britain’s most recognizable print and broadcast personalities.
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Turkey’s Crackdown Curiously Spares the Literary World
Journalists, teachers, lawyers and intellectuals have been jailed and thrown out of work, but book authors have been largely untouched.
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Books of The Times: ‘How to Speak Midwestern,’ a Heartland Dialect Guide
Edward McClelland’s book offers a sweeping consideration of forces that shaped the speech of Yinzers, Baja Minnesotans, Michiganders and their neighbors.
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From Michael Lewis, a Portrait of the Men Who Shaped ‘Moneyball’
The best-selling author studied the work of two psychologists and chronicled their unusual partnership of ideas in the book “The Undoing Project.”
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Night Out: Anne Rice Finds Inspiration Amid Taxidermied Animals
On the eve of her latest book release, the author of “Interview With the Vampire” examined taxidermied animals at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn.
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Roundup: The Season’s Best New Graphic Novels
New graphic novels include the Norwegian artist Hariton Pushwagner’s astonishing cartoon treatise “Soft City,” which has finally arrived in the United States.
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Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast: Inside The New York Times Book Review: 100 Notable Books of 2016
Editors at the Book Review discuss this year’s 100 Notable Books; Ronald H. Fritze talks about “Egyptomania”; and Matthew Schneier discusses “Vanity Fair’s Writers on Writers.”
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