A Brief History of Summer Reading

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Cults, College Dropouts and the Art of Control in Two New Story Collections

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Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80

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Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel

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New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’

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Poetry and Politics, HIPAA and Other Letters to the Editor

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Repression, Obsession, Murder

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The Pleasure of Falling Asleep With a Book on Your Face

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Legends Remade: New Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Emily Oster says you should run your family like a business. Does that work in 2021 — or ever?

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A famous top cop brags of his successes — and shows his blind spots

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Urging a new approach to autism: Stop looking for a cure and start listening

Autistic people have been left out of conversations that concern them, Eric Garcia writes.

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An all-Black musical was a Broadway smash — and then was mostly forgotten

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Al Hirschfeld: Drawing entertainers with pen and ink, elegance and wit

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The human history found inside a seashell

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D.C. is a city of grand monuments and federal buildings. These photos capture the often unseen poetic details.

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Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal

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Eve L. Ewing Adds a Dash of Black Girl Magic to STEM-Based Learning

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An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong

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Floyd Cooper, Illustrator of Black Life for Children, Dies at 65

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11 New Books We Recommend This Week

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Shirley Jackson’s letters reveal the droll voice of an aggrieved working mother

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Erik Larson Has a Scary Story He’d Like You to Hear

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Everything Old Is New Again and Other Best-Selling Wisdom

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Graphic Novelists Who Show Us What Loneliness Means

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Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’

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This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint

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Side by Side With Sondheim: Alan Cumming Reviews a New Book About ‘Sunday in the Park’

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Washington Post paperback bestsellers

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New & Noteworthy, From Horse Girls to an E.R. Doctor’s View of Covid

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11 New Books Coming in August

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Niall Leonard is E.L. James’s husband, but his new novel shows he’s more than a plus-one

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Witty and Soulful Stories From a Writer Who Was Just Getting Started

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The 5 best new thrillers and mysteries to read in August

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Finding the ‘Believers’ Who Will Remake a Damaged Earth

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‘The Dark Part of My Life’: 5 Takeaways From Mena Suvari’s Book

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A New John Oliver Killens Novel Arrives, Three Decades After His Death

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Ha Jin Considers the Cost of Freedom in ‘A Song Everlasting’

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Booker Prize Longlist Is Unveiled

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In ‘Nightbitch,’ a listless mother turns feral

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‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation

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The Extraordinary History (and Likely Busy Future) of Quarantine

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The Enduring Whimsy and Wonderment of Eric Carle

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A Son of Gabriel García Márquez Tenderly Recalls His Parents

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New in Paperback: ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ and ‘Agent Sonya’

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What Makes Elon Musk Different

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A Heartbreaking Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Secrets

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Make a Splash: 8 Summer Picture Books Take You to the Water

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A new Trump book is disturbing but entertaining — and maybe that’s a problem

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A homegrown garden of mind-altering substances

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