Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery?
In her provocative new book, “The Second,” the historian Carol Anderson examines America’s history of racist legal decisions around gun rights, arguing that the Second Amendment was intended to guarantee white slaveholders a fighting force to suppress slave insurrections.
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New in Paperback: ‘Love in the Blitz’ and ‘Sunny Days’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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What Contributed to American Culture After World War II? And Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Behind the Jim Crow Curtain
“Opal’s Greenwood Oasis” and “Unspeakable” restore the often-elided history of a prosperous, close-knit Black community on the eve of its destruction.
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10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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'King Richard' Brings The Watergate Cast Back In Its Own Words-On-Tape
Michael Dobbs writes of a time when a bipartisan group in Congress could command respect as investigators, and when even leaders of the president's party were prepared to acknowledge his wrongdoing.
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Game On! Great New Sports Books
Just in time for summer, these titles offer a variety of surprises — like the members of the 1986 Boston Red Sox discussing their famous collapse and Kevin Garnett offering his prescriptions for success.
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New Books About Music to Read This Summer
Books about everything from Tupac Shakur to Latin music and memoirs by Sinead O’Connor and Rickie Lee Jones offer an answer.
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Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors
“The warts-and-all version is almost always a disappointment, and they risk a retroactive taint.”
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'Helgoland' Offers A New Way To Understand The World, And Our Place In It
Carlo Rovelli writes that quantum mechanics tells us reality is a net of interactions where there are no things, only relationships; nothing has properties until it interacts with something else.
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