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  1. The Essential Alice Munro

    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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  2. The Book Review’s Best Books Since 2000

    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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  3. 17 New Books Coming in May

    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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  4. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book

    Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.

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  5. Best-Seller Lists: May 26, 2024

    All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.

     

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  1. The Massacre America Forgot

    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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  2. 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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    Glenn Loury’s “Late Admissions” recounts his smash-and-grab life.
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  3. 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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  4. 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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    The political philosopher John Rawls in 1990. Rawls’s theory combined a liberal respect for individual rights and differences with an egalitarian emphasis on fairness.
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  5. 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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  3. Queen of the Book Club

    Sitting down for lunch with Reese Witherspoon, whose book picks have become a force in the publishing industry.

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  8. Children’s Books

    Whose Folk Tale Is It Anyway?

    A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.

    By Sabrina Orah Mark

     
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