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"Berlin" is a witty and unsettling romp about a narrator who might be lying not just to the reader but to herself.
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Bea Setton’s debut novel, "Berlin," is a highly entertaining coming-of-age story.
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"At first, I was leading him because I’d done the walk. At the end he was charging ahead of me, and isn’t that what life is supposed to be?" Andrew McCarthy on a 500-mile walk with his son.
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In an interview, ’80s movie star Andrew McCarthy talks about walking the Camino de Santiago with his son, the subject of his new book, “Walking With Sam.”
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"At just 192 pages, 'The Three of Us' is as short and sharp as a paring knife — perfect for carving up this marriage." @RonCharles reviews the debut novel by Ore Agbaje-Williams.
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"The Three of Us," by Ore Agbaje-Williams, is a short comic novel about a woman determined to ruin her best friend's marriage.
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Penguin Random House and PEN America have filed suit against a Florida school district over that district's decisions to restrict or remove books from school libraries .
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The lawsuit challenges decisions by Escambia County Public Schools to restrict or remove over 100 books from its school libraries.
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“Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Emily Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible.
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‘Happy Place’ by Emily Henry delivers the kind of satisfying love story her readers have come to expect.
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"Stalking Shakespeare" is "a captivating account of how a hobby became an obsession."
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In his lively new book “Stalking Shakespeare,” Lee Durkee chronicles his adventure seeking answers about the Bard’s identity
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For the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, and to mark his birth and death month, three new books offer perspectives on his work and life
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For the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s First Folio, and to mark his birth and death month, three new books offer perspectives on his work and life
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Kyung-Sook Shin is one of South Korea’s most acclaimed novelists. Her new book is a close counterpart to her breakout in the West, “Please Look After Mom.”
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Kyung-Sook Shin’s “I Went to See My Father” is a tale of guilt, regret and filial piety.
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Dennis Lehane’s sociological precision gives “Small Mercies,” set in 1970s Boston, a gravitas seldom found in crime novels.
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In ‘Small Mercies,’ Dennis Lehane takes readers back to racially tense Boston in the 70s, where a fearless mother searches for her missing daughter
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“Happy Place” is funny at points, but it is also the closest that Emily Henry has come to writing an old-school melodrama, a heart-rending plot that struggles to express the inexpressible.
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‘Happy Place’ by Emily Henry delivers the kind of satisfying love story her readers have come to expect.
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"‘Steal This Book’ and ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ are still on the shelves, even though those books broadly advocate all sorts of unlawful activity and provide some instruction on how to do it."
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Neither the 2021 book, nor the feature film adaptation, are an instructional manual.
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“Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy” is "urgent, messy and unsettling."
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In "Seventy Times Seven," journalist Alex Mar explores a 1985 murder case and the complicated questions it raises about justice and mercy.
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A close look at Jean Twenge and her new book, "Generations," which has already sparked heated arguments about its claims.
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Jean Twenge returns with another argument-starting book about American generations and how they are defined.
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Like “1984” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s new novel is "so upsetting and illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we’re capable of doing." @RonCharles reviews "Chain-Gang All-Stars."
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's "Chain-Gang All-Stars" is a shocking dystopian satire that imagines inmates used for gladiator-style entertainment.
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Netflix announced that the fifth season of “You,” out in 2024, will be the show’s last. With “For You and Only You,” Caroline Kepnes has made her case that Joe and his bloody romances could easily go on in book form.
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"For You and Only You," the fourth installment of Caroline Kepnes’s Joe Goldberg novels, delivers everything a fan could want.
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"This was not merely a business rivalry but an ideological battle: irony vs. earnestness, criticism vs. civility, snark vs. smarm." Max Read on Ben Smith's "Traffic," a history of BuzzFeed and Gawker.
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Ben Smith's "Traffic," about the early battle for supremacy between BuzzFeed and Gawker, sheds fresh light on the fate of digital news companies.
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In "Affinities," Brian Dillon "zooms in on everyday images to reveal their secret succulence," Becca Rothfeld says.
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In "Affinities," the critic Brian Dillon illustrates the hold that images have on us.
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In "Affinities," Brian Dillon "zooms in on everyday images to reveal their secret succulence," Becca Rothfeld says.
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In "Affinities," the critic Brian Dillon illustrates the hold that images have on us.
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Like “1984” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s new novel is "so upsetting and illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we’re capable of doing." @RonCharles reviews "Chain-Gang All-Stars."
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's "Chain-Gang All-Stars" is a shocking dystopian satire that imagines inmates used for gladiator-style entertainment.
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