Domination Meets Inspiration in a Consuming Affair Between Artists
R.O. Kwon’s second novel, “Exhibit,” sees two Korean American women finding pleasure in a bond that knits creative expression and sadomasochism.
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R.O. Kwon’s second novel, “Exhibit,” sees two Korean American women finding pleasure in a bond that knits creative expression and sadomasochism.
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Three new books show us why the United States should do everything it can to nip the possibility in the bud.
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When her career hit a wall, the Oscar-winning actor built a ladder made of books — for herself, and for others.
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In “Wait,” Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.
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The only prerequisite for reading the Nobel laureate, a master of short stories, is: having lived. Here’s where to start.
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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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New novels from R.O. Kwon, Kevin Kwan and Miranda July; a reappraisal of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy; memoirs from Brittney Griner and Kathleen Hanna — and more.
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In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
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Sex, Drugs and Economics: The Double Life of a Conservative Gadfly
The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.
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Adultery Gets Weird in Miranda July’s New Novel
An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.
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Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
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A Portrait of the Art World Elite, Painted With a Heavy Hand
Hari Kunzru examines the ties between art and wealth in a new novel, “Blue Ruin.”
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An assault led to Chanel Miller’s book, “Know My Name.” But she had wanted to write children’s books since she was a child. She’s done that now with “Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All.”
By Elizabeth A. Harris
If you love stories about beautiful losers, consider Brian Moore’s novel about an alcoholic virgin or Benjamin Anastas’s tale of an inferior twin.
Sitting down for lunch with Reese Witherspoon, whose book picks have become a force in the publishing industry.
By Elisabeth Egan
In Frankie Barnet’s novel, “Mood Swings,” two young women work to craft meaningful lives as society collapses around them.
By Sarah Rose Etter
Adam Higginbotham discusses his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.”
She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.
By Penelope Green
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Anne Berest, Brandon Taylor and more.
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A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.
By Sabrina Orah Mark
The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.
By Jennifer Schuessler
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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