Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
By Molly Young and
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
By Molly Young and
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini.
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In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the ending that seems to be coming.
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Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There’s no telling where you’ll find the next story in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.
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Parenting in a Pandemic, and Other Tales of Woe
Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
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Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.
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17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring
Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.
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27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring
Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.
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Best-Seller Lists: April 28, 2024
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Long Before Trump, Immigrant Detention Was Arbitrary and Cruel
“In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.
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Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Stabbing in a New Memoir
“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.
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For Caleb Carr, Salvation Arrived on Little Cat’s Feet
As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a new memoir, “My Beloved Monster.”
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Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?
In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.
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Delmore Schwartz’s Poems Are Like Salt Flicked on the World
A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.”
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“I don’t want other people to miss out on the wisdom and joy this genre has to offer, the way I did for so long,” says the best-selling novelist. “Funny Story,” about a heartsore librarian and the new man in her life, is out next week.
Boots Riley, Earl Sweatshirt, Jennifer Egan, Amaarae and more tell us about their new projects.
Interviews by Kate Guadagnino
Six people, from Lorraine O’Grady to Wallace Stevens, who found a new creative calling – or received long-overdue recognition — later in life.
By Jason Chen
Marina Abramović, David Henry Hwang and others reveal their juvenalia.
Interviews by Julia Halperin, Kate Guadagnino and Juan A. Ramírez
From Ralph Ellison to Harper Lee, those who made great work in one field — before their creative lives went in a different direction.
By John Wogan and M.H. Miller
The author of nine suspense books also finds time to foster kittens from a Chicago-area shelter.
By Elisabeth Egan
Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that started it all for them, and what (if anything) they might have done differently.
Interviews by Lovia Gyarkye and Nicole Acheampong
It takes courage to start. And far more to continue.
By Aatish Taseer
We spoke to 150 artists, some planning retrospectives and others making their debut, to ask about the process of starting something.
In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women bikers.
By Alex Williams
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