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Book Review: ‘Paris in Ruins,’ by Sebastian Smee

New York Times Book News - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 5:00am

Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.

Mark Jury, Whose Stark Photography Captured the Vietnam War, Dies at 80

New York Times Book News - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 1:20am

He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.

7 New Books We Recommend This Week

New York Times Book News - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 1:27pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Robert Caro Reflects on ‘The Power Broker’ and Its Legacy at 50

New York Times Book News - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 8:40am

Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever.

‘The Power Broker’ Is Finally Getting a Digital Edition. What Took So Long?

New York Times Book News - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 8:39am

Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication.

Debt Was Supposed to Cure Poverty and Help Us Go to College. What Went Wrong?

New York Times Book News - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 5:01am

Three new books examine debt’s fraught politics and history.

Book Review: ‘Herscht 07769,’ by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

New York Times Book News - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 5:00am

Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s single-sentence tale unearths the catastrophe lurking inside the mundane.

Interview: Ketanji Brown Jackson on Her Memoir, ‘Lovely One’

New York Times Book News - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 5:00am

The Supreme Court justice has been drawn to American history and books about the “challenges and triumphs” of raising a neurodiverse child. She shares that and more in a memoir, “Lovely One.”