Now More Than Ever, Brandon Stanton Makes People Feel Less Alone
The creator of Humans of New York went global in his new best seller. Now that we have to stay local, his perspective is more galvanizing than ever.
In 'This Is Not My Memoir' André Gregory Recounts Tales Of Childhood And The Theater
The avant-garde theater director and actor pairs up with writer-director Todd London to present the story of his multi-faceted life, full of dramatic ups and downs — and celebrities.
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The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction
In the third installment of “The Americans,” his series on overlooked or under-read writers, A.O. Scott considers the idiosyncratic originality of an author whose influences extend from Hawthorne to Carver but whose imagination is wholly her own.
How Richard Linklater’s ‘Dazed and Confused’ Came to Exist
Patton Oswalt reviews “Alright, Alright, Alright,” an oral history by Melissa Maerz.
Characters Protesting the Times, When the Real Problem Is Time Itself
In Charles Baxter’s new novel, “The Sun Collective,” an aging couple‘s search for their missing son leads them to a quasi-anarchist group.
New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Rebel Girls to Rachel Bloom
A selection of recent audiobooks of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
'The Book Collectors' Opens The Door To A Secret Library Amidst Syria's Civil War
Delphine Minoui's slim new book tells the true story of a group of Syrian resistance fighters who founded a 15,000-volume library in the basement of an abandoned building.
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In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets
Simon Han’s “Nights When Nothing Happened” exposes the tedium and tension of life as a foreigner in America.
In 'Fevers, Feuds And Diamonds,' Paul Farmer Breaks Down Assumptions About Ebola
The anthropologist and physician teaches that the world needs not only medicine, but something more — a rejection of global racial inequalities and serious investment in the care of all people.
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Book Review: ‘V2,’ by Robert Harris
“V2,” Robert Harris’s new World War II novel, follows a German engineer of the feared rockets and a British woman sent to stop them.
‘Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West,’ by Lauren Redniss: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West,” by Lauren Redniss
‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State,’ by Declan Walsh: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State,” by Declan Walsh
Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between
“Maybe the People Would Be the Times,” “The Age of Skin,” “Mobile Home” and “The Best of Brevity” break down a complicated world.
Dissecting Black Love, White Tears and Racialized Sexual Panic
Three new books on race and relationships explore how white attitudes about sex and emotions have shaped our history.
In the Caribbean and Beyond, Aunties Are So Much More Than Just Family
In Alecia McKenzie’s new novel, “A Million Aunties,” a Black painter seeks solace from personal tragedy in the arms of his Jamaican community.
Book Review: ‘Oak Flat,’ by Lauren Redniss
In her latest work of graphic nonfiction, Lauren Redniss recounts what happened when a copper mining company decided to develop an Arizona tribe’s sacred land.
Book Review: ‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan,’ by Declan Walsh
In “The Nine Lives of Pakistan,” Declan Walsh, a foreign correspondent for The Times, profiles some of the country’s powerful and contentious figures and investigates why his work eventually got him kicked out.
How the Problem of ‘Waste’ Affects the Rural Poor
Catherine Coleman Flowers’s memoir chronicles her advocacy for improved sanitation systems in rural America and her own education as an activist.
A Writer Owes His Liberty to His Mother’s Surrender of Her Own
Ismail Kadare’s autobiographical novel “The Doll” is part remembrance, part detective story about how his mother shaped his own life.
The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable
In “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds,” the public health expert Paul Farmer examines the structural and historical inequalities that led to Ebola’s devastating toll.
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