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Two petitions sought to block Barnes & Noble and independent booksellers from selling “Gender Queer” and “A Court of Mist and Fury” to minors in Virginia because of the books’ sexual content.
Dipo Faloyin is tired of Western stereotypes.
Juan Villoro, who spent over two decades perfecting one book about Mexico City, recommends reading on the city he loves. “Mexico is too complex,” a visitor said. “It needs to be read.”
Claire McCardell helped create American fashion. She was also a writer whose book on style still resonates today.
“The Unfolding” takes readers inside the homes and meeting rooms of a dyed-in-the-wool conservative with big plans for change.
In “A Continent Erupts,” Ronald H. Spector chronicles the violent, internecine conflicts that overwhelmed Asia in the decade after World War II.
A new book by the historian Nicole Hemmer charts the demise of Reagan-style optimism and the birth of a rage-and-fear-based politics on the right.
Her latest book, “The Marriage Portrait,” imagines the life of the girl who is thought to have inspired Robert Browning’s famous poem “My Last Duchess.”
In “The Life of Crime,” Martin Edwards takes on the colorful history of the detective novel, and its enduring fascination.
In “The House of Fortune,” Jessie Burton’s characters are 18 years older and much has changed.
Cultural criticism from Gary Indiana, David Collard and Charles Baxter.
In three journeys to the past, characters find themselves on quests that have nothing to do with the calendar or geography.
A new book collects six decades’ worth of the artist’s work.
Several publishing houses, like Taschen and Assouline, are “having fun” with the subject.
The British Vogue editor wants to make the media — and the world — a more welcoming place.
At the Rhode Island event, revelers danced to murder ballads and celebrated all things weird. They even found time to reckon with the writer’s racism.
James Hannaham’s new novel imagines a convict’s fateful re-entry into a much-changed Brooklyn.
In the deft and surprisingly lively “Democracy’s Data,” Dan Bouk explores the uses, misuses and failures of the U.S. Census.
Our critic recommends old and new books.
For better or worse, Jay Gould revolutionized the world of finance in the 19th century. In “American Rascal,” Greg Steinmetz tells his story.
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