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Utah is a place of paradoxes, full of terrible beauty and complicated history. The writer Terry Tempest Williams recommends books to help you explore the state’s many facets.
In “The Other Side,” the art critic Jennifer Higgie explores artists who found self-expression through different media — and mediums.
In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era — and just how they were achieved. (Recipes included.)
True to the promise of its title, “The Storm We Made” kicks up a weather system of epic proportions, ranging from military terror during World War II to domestic warmth.
The 33-year-old librarian from California has become popular on TikTok and Instagram with his upbeat take on libraries.
This bracing anthology of Christopher Hitchens’s work for The London Review of Books is just the ticket.
Elon Musk thinks a free market of ideas will self-correct. Liberals want to regulate it. Both are missing a deeper predicament.
In “Pure Wit,” Francesca Peacock makes a fresh case for the writer Margaret Cavendish’s place in the feminist canon.
With its beguiling octopus narrator, Shelby Van Pelt’s “Remarkably Bright Creatures” has notable staying power and is back on the best-seller list — a year and a half after its release.
Emily Cockayne’s “Penning Poison,” a history of anonymous letters, reveals the ways we’ve been torturing one another, verbally, for centuries.
In “Mercury,” Amy Jo Burns explores the conflicting loyalties and many secrets of a roofing clan in small-town Pennsylvania.
“Carnival of Dreams” collects surrealist photo collages by the Hong Kong artist who once designed graphics for “Monty Python.”
A look at the Trump-DeSantis rivalry, a witty tribute to “Murder on the Orient Express,” a memoir of open marriage and an epic Swedish novel in verse, among others.
From the pop supernova Olivia Rodrigo to a memoirist whose long-held ballet aspirations stalled at the barre, young women gave voice to their longing this year in memorable ways.
In “The Coming Wave,” the British social activist turned tech entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman explores the existential risks of our new digital age.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A 1960s crime caper, a biography of the man who created the modern F.B.I., Sinead O’Connor’s memoir: Reporters, writers, editors and bureau chiefs describe their favorite reads of the year.
Mary Augusta Ward’s “Lady Rose’s Daughter” was the blockbuster best seller of its day.
Fifty years on, Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death” remains an essential, surprisingly upbeat guide to our final act on Earth.
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