Adventures in Comics and the Real World
America Chavez, a gay, Latina Marvel superhero written by a gay Latina writer, joins a growing list of diverse comic characters.
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It’s Not Just Unfair: Inequality Is a Threat to Our Governance
In “The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution” Ganesh Sitaraman examines inequality not only as an economic problem but also as a threat to American democracy.
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The Best of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy, From an Intergalactic Love Story to New York City Under Water
A graphic novel, a story collection, an apocalyptic novella and New York City under water: N.K. Jemisin reviews the latest in science fiction and fantasy.
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Fran Lebowitz: By the Book
The humorist and social commentator says her ideal literary dinner party is one that nobody is invited to: “My idea of a great literary dinner party is Fran, eating alone, reading a book.”
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Books of The Times
Photo CreditMichael Lionstar From Camille Paglia, ‘Free Women, Free Men’ and No Sacred Cows
This essay collection finds a firebrand author railing against modern feminism and groupthink at American universities.
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Q. & A.
Photo CreditEva Deitch for The New York Times Sarah Dunn on the Anatomy of an Open Marriage
In “The Arrangement,” a couple devise a “six-month-long adultery program.”
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Nonfiction
Photo CreditHulton Archive/Getty Images On the Trail With a Biographer Bringing Lost Lives to Light
“This Long Pursuit” puts us on the ground with the master biographer Richard Holmes and the elusive lives he inhabits.
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Fiction
Photo Credit Domenico Starnone’s New Novel Is Also a Piece in the Elena Ferrante Puzzle
Domenico Starnone’s novel is a sort of sequel to Elena Ferrante’s ‘Days of Abandonment.’
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Best Sellers
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All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Photo CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times ‘Cork Dork’ Sniffs, Swills and Spits Through the World of Wine Experts
A journalist sets her sights on becoming a sommelier, and learns that the training can be grueling for these “masochistic hedonists.”
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Photo CreditAlessandra Montalto/The New York Times ‘The Death of Expertise’ Explores How Ignorance Became a Virtue
Tom Nichols examines how the information age has helped fuel a resistance to authoritative knowledge and a disdain for experts.
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Photo CreditAlessandra Montalto/The New York Times ‘The Stranger in the Woods’ for 27 Years: Maine’s ‘North Pond Hermit’
Michael Finkel’s new book investigates the account of a man who says he escaped civilization. How did he do it? And why would he want to?
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Photo CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors
Molly McCully Brown’s first book of poems, about a government-run hospital, is part history lesson, part séance, part ode to dread.
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Photo CreditAlessandra Montalto/The New York Times When Marilyn Took Manhattan
Elizabeth Winder’s new book takes a close look at a year Marilyn Monroe spent in New York, trying to escape the movie industry.
