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With the 2018 prize postponed by scandal, The Times’s staff book critics discuss the award’s history and influence — and whom they would give it to this year if they could.
In “Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy,” Anne Boyd Rioux seeks to restore a classic to its proper place.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: an unsigned review of Louisa Alcott’s letters.
In a timely new book, “The Schoolhouse Gate,” the University of Chicago law professor Justin Driver traces the influence of our highest court on schools and classrooms.
Two new books, Sarah Weinman’s “The Real Lolita” and T. Greenwood’s “Rust and Stardust,” revisit the story of Sally Horner’s 1948 abduction.
Interlinked story collections provide narrative continuity, while allowing you to take a pause.
Though the traumatic events of Field’s childhood permeate almost every page, they do not define her.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
A look at “The Ghost Script,” the last of Feiffer’s trio of noir graphic novels, alongside Hartley Lin’s charming “Young Frances.”
Mimi Swartz’s “Ticker” tells the story of the doctors who, against all odds, struggled to make a device to replace one of our most vital organs.
In Lisa Margonelli’s “Underbug,” she focuses on the extraordinary capabilities of the termite and what the insect can teach us about ourselves.
In his new book, the neuroscientist Eric Kandel explores the science of unusual brains, locating many of his answers in genetics.
In Esi Edugyan’s daringly imagined new novel, “Washington Black,” a slave boy and his master’s brother flee a plantation in a flying contraption and forge an unlikely bond.
“The culture I grew up in is a very individualistic one, but for understandable reasons,” says Sarah Smarsh.
Michele Gelfand’s “Rule Makers, Rule Breakers” takes a look at the differences in various human societies and chalks them up to how strictly they follow norms.
Corey Brettschneider’s “The Oath and the Office” offers advice to presidents on their constitutional duties.
Alice Mattison’s “Conscience” traces the damaging effect of a novel based on the real lives of three people involved in radical politics.
Jill Lepore’s “These Truths” shows both the successes and failures that have made the country what it is today.
Dan Kaufman’s “The Fall of Wisconsin” traces how a state that was a liberal bastion came to vote for Donald Trump in 2016.
Eric Klinenberg’s “Palaces for the People” explores the civic value of social infrastructure, those public spaces that allow for human connection.
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