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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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These three memoirs were all written by famous women — but that’s about all they have in common.
In a new biography of Thomas Edison, Edmund Morris tells the story in reverse — starting at the end and going backward to his birth.
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Finally, there is a critical mass of children’s picture books about Indigenous people living vibrant, diverse, contemporary lives.
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Jokha Alharthi’s inventive multigenerational tale, “Celestial Bodies,” is also the first novel by an Omani woman to be translated into English.
“Sontag,” Benjamin Moser’s new biography, is a skilled, lively book that works hard to capture a severely complex person.
While literary fiction often sidesteps the climate crisis, eco-horror is filling the breach.
One of them, Jason Reynolds’s middle-grade novel “Look Both Ways,” is a National Book Award finalist.
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Williams talks about his new memoir, “Self-Portrait in Black and White,” and Stephen Kinzer discusses “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”
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