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Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel follows a journalist with an elusive history and a persistent wanderlust.
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Francine Pascal, Creator of ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series, Dies at 92
The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.
Book Review: ‘Misrecognition,’ by Madison Newbound
The protagonist of Madison Newbound’s debut novel, “Misrecognition,” returns to her hometown after a breakup with her power-imbalanced polycule.
Min Jin Lee Looks Back at ‘Pachinko’
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Book Review: ‘A Complicated Passion,’ by Carrie Rickey
A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.
Baldwin’s ‘Blues for Mister Charlie,’ 60 Years After It Hit Broadway
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More States Are Passing Book Banning Rules. Here’s What They Say.
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15 New Books Coming in August
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Edna O’Brien: An Appreciation
Her fiction delivered searing, candid portraits of Irish society through the prism of female friendship.
James C. Scott, Iconoclastic Social Scientist, Dies at 87
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Edna O’Brien, Writer Who Gave Voice to Women’s Passions, Dies at 93
Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married.
Jill Schary Robinson, Who Wrote of Her Hollywood Upbringing, Dies at 88
A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels.
Book Review: ‘Seeing Through,’ by Ricky Ian Gordon
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Book Review: ‘We Burn Daylight,’ by Bret Anthony Johnston
An infamous 1993 siege provides the backdrop for Bret Anthony Johnston’s novel about star-crossed lovers.
2 Dutch Novels Plumb the Gulf Between Order and Chaos
A late-life fantasia; a surviving twin’s breakthrough.
Book Review: ‘Off the Books,’ by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
In Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, “Off the Books,” a Chinese American college student chauffeurs a handsome and suspicious client from California to New York.
Beyond ‘Bridgerton’: 3 Steamy, Summery New Historical Romances
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Gail Lumet Buckley, Chronicler of Black Family History, Dies at 86
She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.
The Book Review Book Club: “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” by Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith’s classic thriller mixes glamour, betrayal, self-invention and murder. What’s not to love?
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