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Penguin Random House/Award-winning writer Colson Whitehead's latest novel is a comic crime caper set in 1960s Harlem. -
Courtesy Yale University Press/Yale University Press has published the new edition of its Book of Quotes. This latest version sets the record straight on who really said what.
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It can’t be easy writing a new book in a series because you have to consider readers who may be coming to you for the first time, as well as keep up with… -
There are books galore about American presidents — biographies, memoirs, analyses by colleagues, family members, scholars, journalists, by presidents…
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Here’s a book that’s well named: “Bald.” To emphasize the point, the cover contains an illustration of a man in profile, his pate as smooth as stone, and…
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Erik Larson is so good a storyteller that as you read through The Splendid and the Vile, his magnificent saga of Winston Churchill during the bombing of…
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Though Amagansett-based author Ellen Feldman’s compelling new novel The Living and the Lost is set in Berlin shortly after World War II, with flashbacks…
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A new and expanded edition of a book first published 58 years ago about a man said to have been the world’s greatest conductor shows why the myth took…
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You know how writers are sometimes asked whom they would like to have over for a small dinner party? Well, historian, biographer and academic Walter…
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What could seem further from our polarized, diverse world and abbreviated social-media discourse than Virginia Woolf’s 1925 stream-of-consciousness novel…
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101 Arabian Tales: How We All Persevered in Peace Corps Libya should be required reading for all Peace Corps volunteers and administrators once the…
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Nemesis by Philip Roth, published in 2010, eight years before he died, has got to be one of the most subtly instructive elegiac novels written about a…
