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In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran.
Lauren Sandler talks about “This Is All I Got,” and Sarah Weinman discusses classic mysteries.
Whether you live in an apartment, house, mansion or cabin, here are books that will help you explore the meaning of where you are right now.
From Agatha Christie to Raymond Chandler to Patricia Highsmith, classic detective stories are given new life in audio form.
In “The Chiffon Trenches,” the former Vogue editor grapples with his own complicated story.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
This week’s Crime column includes a computer gamer who is handy with a Samurai sword and a 14-year-old girl who solves a murder in an amusement park.
If a first book is published in the midst of a pandemic, does it make a splash? For this crew, the answer should be yes.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“All Adults Here” is not an accurate description of her life these days.
“Life is short and there are many other books.”
An excerpt from “The Arab Winter,” by Noah Feldman
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
“In Praise of Walking” and “In Praise of Paths” offer two very different approaches to the benefits of taking regular strolls.
An excerpt from “A Children’s Bible,” by Lydia Millet
In “Enemy of All Mankind,” Steven Johnson argues that a 1695 showdown on the high seas was a crucial turning point in the rise of the British Empire.
The heroine of Amy Jo Burns’s debut novel, “Shiner,” comes of age amid the patriarchy of contemporary Appalachia.
In “Sunny Days,” David Kamp traces a revolutionary decade in kids’ TV.
His collection “Sorry for Your Trouble” features characters who find that the pieces of their lives no longer fit.
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