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When a Father Gets Kidnapped, His Family Pays the Price
“Long Island Compromise,” the new novel by the author of “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” fictionalizes a true story.
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CreditKlaus Kremmerz Romance Bookstores Are Booming, Dishing ‘All the Hot Stuff You Can Imagine’
Bookstores once shunted romance novels to a shelf in the back. But with romance writers dominating the best-seller lists, a network of dedicated bookstores has sprung up around the country.
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Beach Reads That Stand Up to Sand, Salt and SPF
Want to indulge in juicy, page-turning escapism? We’ve got some recommendations.
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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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CreditThe New York Times New novels from J. Courtney Sullivan and Liz Moore, a memoir by a “hacktivist” member of Anonymous — and more.
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Looking for your next great read? We’ve got 3,228. Explore the best fiction and nonfiction from 2000 - 2023 chosen by our editors.
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More in Books of The Times ›Back When Women Were Told to ‘Write Like a Man’
For the midcentury New York intellectuals, Ronnie Grinberg writes in a new book, a particular kind of machismo was de rigueur — even for women.
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Creditvia Riverside Films The Angel of Death Has Some Reservations About His Job
Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your soul.
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CreditJay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times, via Contour RA Jailhouse Correspondence Gives Bernie Madoff the ‘Final Word’
The journalist Richard Behar communicated extensively with the disgraced financier. His rigorous if irreverent book acknowledges his subject’s humanity.
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CreditRuby Washington/The New York Times Who Was Harriet Tubman? A Historian Sifts the Clues.
A brisk new biography by the National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles aims to restore the iconic freedom fighter to human scale.
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CreditNational Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Have You Heard the One About the School for Stand-Up Comedy?
In “The Material,” Camille Bordas imagines the anxious hotbed where the perils of being a college student and the perils of being funny meet.
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FictionA Novel of Romance, Secrets and Many Crises
With “Husbands & Lovers,” Beatriz Williams delivers a multigenerational yarn and a memorable ending.
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Can You Uncover the 12 Hidden Book Titles in This Puzzle?
This week’s Title Search puzzle challenges you to find a dozen works of fiction that were published during the last years of the 20th century.
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Jane F. McAlevey, Who Empowered Workers Across the Globe, Dies at 59
An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”
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Weeks After Alice Munro’s Death, Daughter Tells of Dark Family Secret
Andrea Skinner said in The Toronto Star that her stepfather sexually abused her at age 9, and that her mother stayed with him after she learned of it.
By Elizabeth A. Harris
Stanley Moss, Poet Who Evoked a Troubled World, Dies at 99
His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.
By Robert D. McFadden
The Authors Call It Fiction, but in These 2 Novels the Facts Don’t Lie
A philandering father; a literary affair.
Roving EyeIn “Russian Gothic,” a Veteran’s Paranoia and Delirium Reflect a Nation’s
The 1991 novel turns a private disturbance into bracing social commentary.
By Boris Fishman
FictionReality Is Imploding in This Post-Pandemic, Fever-Dream Novel
Laura van den Berg’s new book, “State of Paradise,” sends readers down surreal portals to ask: How do we distinguish reality from its opposite — whatever that might be?
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Paperback Row6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Jhumpa Lahiri, Kerry Howley, Djuna and more.
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