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Angela Flournoy’s 'The Wilderness' focuses on a Black, female ‘chosen family’

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Former senator Joe Manchin makes the case for the middle in the memoir 'Dead Center'

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Ian McEwan’s latest novel ‘What We Can Know’ is science fiction without the science

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‘Peacemaker’ and ‘Tomorrow Is Yesterday’ are personal histories of diplomacy

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Ken Jaworowski’s new crime novel ‘What About the Bodies’ has a surprising tender side

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‘Dark Renaissance’ historian on how Christopher Marlowe paved the way for Shakespeare

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‘Beyond Fast’ chronicles one coach’s unlikely revolution in high school cross-country

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In his new novel ‘The Secret of Secrets,’ Dan Brown takes on human consciousness

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‘Long Way Down’ and ‘The Hate U Give’ are modern classics about gun violence

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What Toni Morrison learned from revisiting five of her most-read novels

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Sandra Cisneros’ ‘The House on Mango Street’ was born from a feeling of displacement

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In her translation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Emily Wilson aimed for ‘a crystalline clarity’

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Jhumpa Lahiri says the phrase ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ came to her in grad school

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‘2024’ and ‘From the Clinics to the Capitol’ dissect opposing political movements

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In Meg Medina’s new young adult novel, a 13-year-old girl becomes a sea ghost

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‘Misbehaving at the Crossroads’ is a lesson in the complexity of reconciliation

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In Rabih Alameddine’s new novel, a mother and son share a tiny Beirut apartment

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Tamara Yajia’s memoir recounts a chaotic upbringing between the U.S. and Argentina

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‘Papilio’ and ‘Chooch Helped’ are children’s books brought to life by friendship

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In ‘The Sunflower Boys,’ a 12-year-old boy comes of age during war in Ukraine

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‘Friends with Words’ is a book about language, from word origins to regional dialects

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Kate Riley’s novel ‘Ruth’ was inspired by her year in an insular religious community

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In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of ‘deaf gain’ instead of hearing loss

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‘Your Favorite Scary Movie’ and ‘Ready for My Close-Up’ are histories of iconic films

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Eighty years after Hiroshima, a new book narrates the history of the atomic bomb

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In the novel ‘Loved One,’ an ambiguous friendship is further complicated by loss

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‘Dinner with King Tut’ follows experimental archaeologists as they recreate the past

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For her 25th book, Karin Slaughter wanted to capture life in small-town Georgia

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‘Cook Once, Eat Twice’ and ‘Accidentally on Purpose’ are new books from cooking stars

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‘Atlantic’ writer James Parker says his odes are exercises in gratitude and attention

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In ‘The Hounding,’ rumors swirl around five sisters living in 18th-century England

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Alexis Okeowo’s ‘Blessings and Disasters’ is an ode to Alabama’s complicated history

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‘Dwelling’ fictionalizes the American housing crisis with elements of fairy tale

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For the authors of ‘Reading Van Gogh,’ ‘Black in Blues,’ art opened a door to meaning

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In ‘Human Nature,’ Kate Marvel bridges the gap between climate science and emotions

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Jason Mott’s new novel ‘People Like Us’ is metafiction that was almost memoir

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‘Sloppy’ author Rax King says she’s inspired by writers who did their best work sober

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A new mystery novel by Liza Tully pairs a green assistant with a seasoned detective

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2 new books were inspired by dark moments in Japanese and Japanese American history

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‘The Feather Detective’ is a biography of Roxie Layboune, forensic ornithologist

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In Lisa Smith’s ‘Jamaica Road,’ a young girl searches for belonging in 1980s London

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‘Algospeak’ looks at algorithms' transformative impact on how we speak on and offline

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Katie Yee's 'Maggie' approaches a tough diagnosis - and a marriage's end - with humor

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New books by Irene Vega, Tim Weiner chronicle changes to federal agencies under Trump

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'On Her Game' is Christine Brennan's portrait of basketball star Caitlin Clark

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Short story collection 'Heart Lamp' is the winner of the International Booker Prize

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In Sophie Elmhirst's 'A Marriage at Sea,' a couple tries to keep themselves afloat

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Through politics, fiction and her latest novel, Stacey Abrams aims to inspire action

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'No Sense in Wishing' and 'Hit Girls' consider the way culture shapes identity

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After 20 years, Mary Jo Bang has completed her translation of Dante's 'Divine Comedy'

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Mark Kurlansky's novel 'Cheesecake' was inspired by a recipe from ancient Rome

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In her new memoir, Hala Alyan searches for home amid a family history of exile

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Aisling Rawle's 'The Compound' follows characters on a semi-dystopian reality TV show

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New biographies look at the careers of designers Claire McCardell and Virgil Abloh

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Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

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'Trailblazer' is a memoir by Carol Moseley Braun, first Black woman elected to Senate

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Liane Moriarty on her novel 'Here One Moment' and on writing 'women's fiction'

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'The Last Sweet Bite' is a cookbook that documents the way conflict changes cuisine

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In Ann Patchett's latest, a mother tells her daughters about a seminal summer

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New books ask how we can protect threatened land in the Amazon rainforest and Hawaii

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With novel 'Among Friends,' Hal Ebbott says he wanted to take friendship seriously

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David Litt's new memoir is about finding common ground through surfing

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In the new speculative novel 'Weepers,' mourning is outsourced to professionals

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Ten years later, Ta-Nehisi Coates says 'Between the World and Me' is no longer his

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Kevin Kwan explores race and identity in 'Sex and Vanity' and 'Lies and Weddings'

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In Emma Straub's novel 'All Adults Here,' family is messy

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In 'Lessons in Chemistry' a chemist is the star of... a cooking show?

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'The Rachel Incident' looks back on early-20s friendships, love and mistakes

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Emily Henry's 'Funny Story' centers a new character in rom-com tropes

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New books by Damon Young and Dennard Dayle take different routes to humor

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'The Pretender' centers on a real peasant who learns he is heir to England's throne

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In 'The Science of Revenge,' an expert explains why humans are hardwired for payback

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'Great Black Hope' is a character study of a young, Black, queer man in high society

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'Fatherhood' traces a history of masculinity, from Aristotle to Sigmund Freud

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New books by Carl Hiaasen and John Seabrook tell distinctly American stories

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Evan Osnos' 'The Haves and Have-Yachts' is a book of essays about the new Gilded Age

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Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig reflect on 'The L Word' in memoir 'So Gay For You'

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For a novel on the first women astronauts, Taylor Jenkins Reid studied old NASA PDFs

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As prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern juggled leadership and motherhood

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In 'The Dry Season,' Melissa Febos chronicles a transformative year of celibacy

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Susan Choi's 'Flashlight' is about an alternate-universe version of her own family

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'Sea of Grass' chronicles the disappearance of the North American prairie

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In 'The Catch,' estranged sisters confront a mystery surrounding their mother's death

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Madeleine Thien's new novel 'The Book of Records' is a story that traverses centuries

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'What Will People Think?' and 'Climbing in Heels' star women trying to make it big

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'Theater Kid' is a memoir from the producer of 'Rent,' 'Avenue Q,' and 'Hamilton'

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'Freedom Season' argues the events of 1963 transformed the civil rights movement

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In new memoir, women's college basketball coach Dawn Staley says she's a 'sore loser'

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In debut novel 'Food Person,' a food writer ghostwrites a celebrity cookbook

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Two authors consider how being a daughter shaped their relationship to motherhood

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In 'Anima Rising,' Gustav Klimt encounters a young woman under strange circumstances

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'Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows' restores a lost chapter of comic book history

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Honor Jones' 'Sleep' explores how our childhoods influence who we are as parents

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Karen Hao's new book is a skeptical look at Sam Altman and Elon Musk's AI empire

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With new novel, Ocean Vuong says he wants to reframe America as a place of salvage

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'Little Bosses Everywhere' looks into the Wild West of multilevel marketing

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A new biography of Rafael Nadal focuses on the tennis star's domination on clay

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'Original Sin' argues Biden aides enabled his reelection bid, despite mental decline

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Two new history books use the past to explain what’s important now

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'F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!' makes the case against ‘people pleasers’

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Angela Flournoy’s 'The Wilderness' focuses on a Black, female ‘chosen family’

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Former senator Joe Manchin makes the case for the middle in the memoir 'Dead Center'

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Ian McEwan’s latest novel ‘What We Can Know’ is science fiction without the science

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‘Peacemaker’ and ‘Tomorrow Is Yesterday’ are personal histories of diplomacy

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Ken Jaworowski’s new crime novel ‘What About the Bodies’ has a surprising tender side

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‘Dark Renaissance’ historian on how Christopher Marlowe paved the way for Shakespeare

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‘Beyond Fast’ chronicles one coach’s unlikely revolution in high school cross-country

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In his new novel ‘The Secret of Secrets,’ Dan Brown takes on human consciousness

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‘Long Way Down’ and ‘The Hate U Give’ are modern classics about gun violence

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What Toni Morrison learned from revisiting five of her most-read novels

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Sandra Cisneros’ ‘The House on Mango Street’ was born from a feeling of displacement

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In her translation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Emily Wilson aimed for ‘a crystalline clarity’

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Jhumpa Lahiri says the phrase ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ came to her in grad school

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‘2024’ and ‘From the Clinics to the Capitol’ dissect opposing political movements

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In Meg Medina’s new young adult novel, a 13-year-old girl becomes a sea ghost

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‘Misbehaving at the Crossroads’ is a lesson in the complexity of reconciliation

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In Rabih Alameddine’s new novel, a mother and son share a tiny Beirut apartment

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Tamara Yajia’s memoir recounts a chaotic upbringing between the U.S. and Argentina

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‘Papilio’ and ‘Chooch Helped’ are children’s books brought to life by friendship

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In ‘The Sunflower Boys,’ a 12-year-old boy comes of age during war in Ukraine

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‘Friends with Words’ is a book about language, from word origins to regional dialects

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Kate Riley’s novel ‘Ruth’ was inspired by her year in an insular religious community

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‘Your Favorite Scary Movie’ and ‘Ready for My Close-Up’ are histories of iconic films

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Eighty years after Hiroshima, a new book narrates the history of the atomic bomb

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‘Cook Once, Eat Twice’ and ‘Accidentally on Purpose’ are new books from cooking stars

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‘Atlantic’ writer James Parker says his odes are exercises in gratitude and attention

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Alexis Okeowo’s ‘Blessings and Disasters’ is an ode to Alabama’s complicated history

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