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When book storage is limited, people get desperate. Don’t make the mistakes I did.

Happy Banned Books Week

10 books to read in October

How ‘Rage’ Challenged Bob Woodward

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

4 Books that Explain the U.S. Tax System

‘The End of the Day,’ by Bill Clegg: An Excerpt

‘The Midnight Library,’ by Matt Haig: An Excerpt

Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America

A Woman Escapes Her Kidnapper. Will She Live Happily Ever After?

Beyond Nature vs. Nurture, What Makes Us Ourselves?

Managing the Bedbugs, Bathroom Shortages and Big Egos at Yalta

In ‘The Midnight Library,’ Books Offer Transport to Different Lives

In ‘The End of the Day,’ the Past Is Knocking at the Door

Why We Let White-Collar Criminals Get Away With Their Crimes

‘Bestiary’ Offers a Compendium of Creatures, and Generations

Is Socialism Coming to America?

Mexico’s War on Its Citizens’ Bodies

Angela Chen’s ‘Ace’ reveals what it means to be asexual in a society obsessed with sexuality

Phil Klay’s New Novel Is a Sobering Look at America’s Wars

Our food shopping habits have human and environmental costs. ‘The Secret Life of Groceries’ adds them up.

New in paperback: 13 September releases worth reading

For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me.

7 Takeaways From Mariah Carey’s Memoir

In a Book About Trauma, She Hopes to Show What Survival Looks Like

« Heidegger et l’Ecole de Kyoto », de Bernard Stevens : le maître-penseur souabe et ses disciples japonais

3 Illustrated Novels With Animal Magnetism

This Basketball-Loving Poet Resists Categorization

Mike McCormack, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Claudie Hunzinger : la chronique « poches » de Véronique Ovaldé

Tintin et la couverture mystérieuse

Bandes dessinées : nos coups de cœur de la rentrée

Sam McBratney Dies at 77; Wrote ‘Guess How Much I Love You’

For Comey, time has not healed a major wound

C.I.A. Operatives in the Early Years of the Cold War

What Are Our Book Editors Reading?

A far deeper, worthier and more interesting JFK

McMaster’s memoir is heavy on history, but light on Trump

A global energy study that misses some climate change realities

Killing millions from behind their desks

The Incredible Influence of James A. Baker III

New in Paperback: ‘The Topeka School’ and ‘Brown White Black’

Politics and Fiction and Other Letters to the Editor

« Demain la brume », de Timothée Demeillers : grandir et mourir pour Vukovar

« Consolation philosophique », de Vincent Delecroix : la chronique « philosophie » de Roger-Pol Droit

A Wordless Way to Write a Novel

How Was ‘Mein Kampf’ Handled in The Book Review in 1943?

10 New Books We Recommend This Week

« Le Clivage droite gauche », de Janine Mossuz-Lavau : des valeurs tenaces

« Permafrost », d’Eva Baltasar : la femme dégelée

‘Goodfellas’ turned 30 this year. ‘Made Men’ explores its lasting influence.