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How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal
Louis Hyman’s history describes the corporate forces that during the 20th century led to a gig economy of expendable and precarious labor.
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The Criminalization of Parenthood
In “Small Animals,” Kim Brooks examines why letting your kids walk alone to school or play in the park unsupervised means risking arrest — especially if you’re a mother.
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A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La
The Kingdom of Bhutan, tucked away in the Himalayas, just got TV. Now it’s home to ambitious young authors who are telling their country’s stories for the first time, usually in English.
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If You Could Add One Book to the High School Curriculum, What Would It Be?
We posed the question to a range of writers. Their answers may surprise you.
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Photo CreditBridgeman Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad
“The Husband Hunters” is Anne de Courcy’s glittering account of the Gilded Age wave of young women whose fortunes saved the British aristocracy.
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Books News
Photo CreditYoran Cazac (Beatrice Cazac) A James Baldwin Book, Forgotten and Overlooked for Four Decades, Gets Another Life
The novelist’s only children’s book is coming back into print, and it couldn’t be more timely.
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Editors’ Choice
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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The Book Review
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“We are composites of various creatures,” David Quammen says. “We are mosaics.”
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Preti Taneja’s “We That Are Young” layers Shakespeare’s story over a modern-day conflict between a billionaire from Delhi and his three daughters.
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In his posthumous book, “Fashion Climbing,” the Times’s onetime fashion and society photographer recalls his younger days as a hat maker and man about town.
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In “She Begat This: 20 Years of ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,’” Joan Morgan makes a case for Hill’s artistic and historical importance while also paying attention to the stickier parts of the star’s career.
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Photo Credit Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’
Olga Tokarczuk’s novel, the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize, is full of bizarre and harrowing stories that blend fiction and fact.
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Photo Credit A Case for the New Jazz Sound That Will Inspire Playlists
In “Playing Changes,” Nate Chinen argues that we’re living in a brilliant new phase of jazz, and offers an annotated guide to his favorite performers.
