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He Rescued 1.5 Million Yiddish Books. Now He Will Have Time to Read Some.
Aaron Lansky was a young graduate student in Montreal in the late 1970s when he had an epiphany that changed…
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A Ravenous Woman? Perish the Thought!
Lottie Hazell’s debut novel, “Piglet,” is a tantalizing layer cake of horror, romance (sort of) and timely questions about the…
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Brontez Purnell Insists on Phoning Writers He Admires
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). It could only be in fantasy scenarios. Like everyone else, my…
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Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring
“The Notebook” and “Cabaret” land on Broadway. Olivia Rodrigo’s tour stops in Manhattan. Plus: Herbie Hancock, Heartbeat Opera and Trisha…
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Book Club: Let’s Talk About Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen Barbara Kingsolver’s novel “Demon Copperhead,” a riff on “David Copperfield” that…
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I Read These Books So That You Don’t Have To
President Biden had a far better comeback at his disposal last week when he took offense at a special counsel…
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The Barefoot Memoirist: Ina Garten Takes Her Story to a New Publisher
Garten, the Food Network star and best-selling cookbook author, has moved her highly anticipated fall autobiography from Celadon to Crown.
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If You Know How to Read It, Washington Is an Open Book
President Biden had a far better comeback at his disposal last week when he took offense at a special counsel…
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Ellen Gilchrist, Writer With an Eye on the South’s Foibles, Dies at 88
In her novels and story collections, she took a sharp, lightly ironic look at the class from which she came,…
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How Robots Learned to Write So Well
“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial…