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Poetry Review: ‘Killing Spree,’ by Jorie Graham
In “Killing Spree,” Jorie Graham confronts a world living through apocalyptic times.
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Book Review: ‘Babylon, South Dakota,’ by Tom Lin
Tom Lin’s new novel, “Babylon, South Dakota,” reimagines the western with surreal elements.
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Book Review: ‘The Vivisectors,’ by Missouri Williams
The stoic narrator of “The Vivisectors” befriends a student embroiled in a cultural politics debate.
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Book Review: ‘Trudeau & Doonesbury,’ by Joshua Kendall
A new biography of Garry Trudeau tracks the rise of a comic strip that brought counterculture and political opinions to the funny pages.
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Book Review: ‘America, U.S.A.,’ by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
In “America, U.S.A.,” Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country’s past anniversaries with skepticism and pain.
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How Marilyn Monroe Gave a Smart Gloss to Her Image
It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a century ago next week. Two new volumes shed light on the books she collected and the intellectual she…
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Summer’s Best Beach Reads
If you happen to be near a body of water (salt, fresh, chlorinated or otherwise), here are the books you’ll need.
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Submit Your Summer Reading Bucket List
Tell us what you read this summer, and enter the drawing for this year’s prize.
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What to Read This Summer: NYT Reading Bucket List
Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!)
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New Picture Book Biographies of Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage
As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect.
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Book Review: ‘The Land and Its People,’ by David Sedaris
In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.