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A Flight Attendant Drafted Her Novel on Cocktail Napkins. It Took Off.

The History of a Palatial Hotel and Its Famous Guests, From Kings and Spies to Presidents and Poets

The Struggles of Those Who Regain Sight and Hearing

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Quentin Tarantino turned his last movie into a novel, but don’t think you know the ending

‘The Vixen,’ by Francine Prose: An Excerpt

When Adult Daughters Realize Their Mother Is Being Abused

A Humbled Millennial Goes Home to New Jersey to Find Herself

Confronting the Threat of QAnon

An Aspiring Editor Meets a Thorny Dilemma

A Black Scholar’s Path From Drug Dealing to ‘30 Under 30’

Quentin Tarantino Turns His Most Recent Movie Into a Pulpy Page-Turner

For June Jordan and Muriel Rukeyser, the Arc of Moral Verse Bent Toward Justice

‘I’m Easily Bored by Books,’ Says Writer of 22 Novels

Reliving a Year of Death, as Havoc Reigned in the White House

An intense bond between two women fuels the suspense in ‘Palace of the Drowned’

With a Violent Debut, He Reveals a London That Is Rarely Seen

Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer-winning poet of ‘the difficult magic of the ordinary,’ dies at 82

Robert Gottlieb on the Man Who Saw America (And We Mean, All of It)

Dark Side of the Soul

Stephen Dunn, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 82

How Trump’s blunders fueled our coronavirus nightmare

What happens to a family when a father goes to prison

The young United States’ manifest uncertainty

A well-worn argument about race, intelligence and violence

What people today — including Phil Collins — get wrong about the Alamo

The long tension between the Second Amendment and Black gun ownership

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A Tricky Tribute to the Book Review’s 125th Anniversary

The History of Hollywood, Home Economics and Other Letters to the Editor

Debut Stories From Clare Sestanovich, Brenda Peynado and Choi Eunyoung

New in Paperback: ‘Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why’ and ‘Billion Dollar Loser’

11 Summer Graphic Novels for Early and Middle-Grade Readers

Stephen Graubard, 96, Journal Editor and Provocative Historian, Dies

8 New Books We Recommend This Week

Prepare Yourself for Little Green Men

Need a Modern Update on American History? Meet Clint Smith.

Diane Johnson Wishes More Authors Would Write About Friendship

11 Summer Graphic Novels for Early and Middle-Grade Readers

Judith Farr, scholar of Emily Dickinson and poet in her own right, dies at 85

When the ‘Change of Life’ Means It’s Time to Change Your Life

Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes

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John Paul Brammer Is Obsessed With Kate Bush

In Laurie Frankel’s ‘One Two Three,’ three sisters are on a mission to save their town

Touring American Pop Music by Way of the Writers Who Have Addressed It

Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Some awful things have happened in the last year . . . but these are not uninteresting times’