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A new book explores the history of discrimination in women’s health care and how it affects diagnosis and treatment today.
“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan.
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
Vladimir Sorokin’s novel “Blue Lard” features a world largely bereft of love or moral concern, but it reminds us of our freedom.
As Katie Rogers writes in “American Woman,” Jill Biden and other recent spouses are still locked in a role unlikely to change until the presidency does.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s “The American Daughters” tells the story of a powerful resistance coming from inside the house.
In “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” the pioneering journalist recounts a life in, and of, Silicon Valley.
For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.”
An overbearing mother; a vanished sister.
These novels hinge on split-second decisions that change everything.
In “The Darkest White,” Eric Blehm chronicles the 2003 disaster that killed the pioneering snowboarder Craig Kelly and six others.
In “The Washington Book,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Carlos Lozada mines a genre known for sanitized prose to revealing effect.
A brooding biologist seeks transcendence in Martin MacInnes’s richly atmospheric, patiently unfurling novel “In Ascension.”
A German-born Jew who became a French writer and activist, he devoted his life to healing the divide between two historic enemies after the trauma of World War II.
Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”
Art by Moebius, a Christmas card by Gaiman and a Swamp Thing cover are among the items.
In Streisand’s new audiobook recording for her chatty, brick-size memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” the superlative diva adds a little freestyling.
In Streisand’s new audiobook recording for her chatty, brick-size memoir, “My Name Is Barbra,” the superlative diva adds a little freestyling.
A girl and her grandmother are visited by a friendly ghost; a boy is visited by a time traveler.
In her new novel, “After Annie,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how a family pieces itself back together after monumental loss.
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