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The Horrors of Irish Magdalene Laundries, Revisited

10 books to read in December

Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too.

An Earthquake Has Broken Tehran, but She’s Looking for a Different Fix

The 10 Best Books of 2021

Performing Twins Part Ways. Estrangement Ensues.

A Book’s Unlikely Pairing: Fernando Pessoa and Plane Crashes

Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling.

Jakucho Setouchi, Buddhist nun and best-selling Japanese author, dies at 99

‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm

In ‘Something More Than Night,’ Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff are a winning crime-fighting duo

After 200,000 years, we’re still trying to figure out what humanity is all about

What happens when the administration is hinged on the unhinged?

When the drugs get stronger, the stories get sadder and the solutions more elusive

At war with the woke: A fresh perspective makes the same tired arguments

Ann Patchett’s ‘These Precious Days’ is a beautiful reminder of what’s important

Ann Patchett on ‘These Precious Days’

Noah Gordon, 95, Dies; American Novelist With an Audience Overseas

Starring Louise Erdrich as Herself

Thomas Mann, Guilty Pleasures and Other Letters to the Editor

Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam

New in Paperback: ‘To Make Men Free’ and ‘You Love Me’

Better Living Through Book Reading

8 New Books We Recommend This Week

When Reader Meets Writer

Jewish Pride, and Prejudice, in Veera Hiranandani’s New Middle Grade Novel

Not Your Traditional Hanukkah/Christmas Picture Book

What to Read: Four Children’s Books

8 New Books Coming in December

They’re Ballerinas — and, Quite Possibly, Murderers

The ‘Profusely Illustrated’ Life of Edward Sorel

‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack

The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind

Newly Published, From ‘Shaun of the Dead’ to Patricia Highsmith

Vote For the Best Book

My Book Was Censored in China. Now It’s Blacklisted — in Texas

The Novel that Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S.

Mystics, Monsters and the Macabre: Visual Books Honor the Occult

In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured

Mario Vargas Llosa and the Age of the Strongman

The San Francisco Homeless Crisis: What Has Gone Wrong?

Warriors of History and Legend

Mystics, Monsters and the Macabre: Visual Books Honor the Occult

New Political Thrillers Head to the Brink of Disaster (and Dive In)

‘The Private Life of William Shakespeare’

‘Tinderbox,’ an Oral History of HBO From Modest Beginnings to TV Revolution

Sylvère Lotringer, Shape-Shifting Force of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 83

Robert Bly, Poet Who Gave Rise to a Men’s Movement, Dies at 94

100 Notable Books of 2021