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A rabbi’s final call for a commitment to the common good

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A journey across America to explore the heart of the Latinx community

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How the legacy of colonialism shaped the last global Ebola epidemic

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In “This Is Your Time,” Ruby Bridges Urges a New Generation to Keep Fighting

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New in Paperback: ‘Invisible Americans’ and ‘Hunter’s Moon’

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Walt Whitman, Parenting Books and Other Letters to the Editor

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Assaults and Occupations in Wartime

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A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea

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What if There Were a Worst-Seller List?

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‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to Zadie Smith

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Thanksgiving is a time to grieve, read and remember. Two new books capture the mood.

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Which books make the best gifts? Authors weigh in.

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Why Harry Truman Matters Today

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We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead.

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Michael J. Fox mixes candor, humor and hope in his heartfelt new memoir

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Author Jason Reynolds: Racism hasn’t changed ‘because we still haven’t talked about it’

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Facts, just the facts: My 10-year-old has reminded me of the allure of the almanac

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‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection

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Three New Books That Stare Up at the Stars

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Queer Exile: Three Novels About Émigrés, Lovers and Family

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Studies of Darkness and Disguise at the Movies

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The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty

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In a Gentrifying Seattle, a Queer Activist Works to Blur Borders

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New & Noteworthy Poetry, From Eavan Boland to the African-American Canon

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Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War

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Zeyn Joukhadar’s ‘The Thirty Names of Night’ is a poetic portrait of a trans man’s search for a rare bird — and his own identity

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The 10 Best Books of 2020

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A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd

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Jan Morris, a Distinctive Guide Who Took Readers Around the World

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An Eco-Fable From the Author of ‘The Magicians’

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What if Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor Had Joined Forces?

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