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When a hedge fund titan moves to the Berkshires in Jonathan Dee’s new novel, life for the residents begins to change.
What goes into a finished piece of writing? Many things we writers cannot see.
In Victoria Jamieson’s brilliant new graphic novel, “All’s Faire in Middle School,” the rules of school are even more complex than the rules of swordplay.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: the voice of John le Carré.
Readers respond to “Chief Engineer,” parenting and more.
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Sarah Lyall interviews two masters of espionage on the page.
Four new books explore the constantly evolving — and playful — side of language: slang, puns and emojis.
Novels from Jason Reynolds and Diana Harmon Asher feature runners who must push themselves into unfamiliar ground.
Three books on a major recent development in astronomy confirming relativity theory.
Gabe Hudson’s “Gork, the Teenage Dragon” and Jomny Sun’s “Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too” star anxious heroes navigating unfamiliar planets.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Berries clothe seeds and fertilize them when they drop to the ground, and one summer they taught a young woman to savor time.
A novelist and new mother recreates her book collection for the next generation.
Why the words we use to describe Sally Hemings matter.
However remote her themes may seem beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip.
Three books delve into the minds of Thomas Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
The author of mystery novels, most recently “Glass Houses,” recommends reading her fellow Canadian writer Margaret Atwood: “And I don’t just say that because the government compels me to.”
Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography, “Chester B. Himes,” traces the seminal crime novelist’s path from prison to international success.
In “Little Soldiers,” Lenora Chu investigates both the roots of the Chinese education system and its effects on children, including her own.
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