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How We Remember the Civil War

2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies

Through a Recession and a Pandemic, the Book Business Is Thriving in Buenos Aires

Dov Forman Wants You to Know His Great-Grandmother’s Holocaust Story

In these gloomy, divisive times, does anyone care about books? I do.

When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village

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The Siblings in This Book Loathe Each Other, and It’s So Refreshing

Newly Published, From Rainbow Cocktails to Magical Beasts

Strange, Slippery and Beautiful: A Master Essayist at Work

Odes to an Older World, With Cameos by Cézanne and Hawthorne

Dan Chaon’s Madcap Novel About a Road-Tripping Mercenary

In This Shore Town, Everything Is Not All Right

Like Kimchi on Mashed Potatoes

Over Half a Millennium, Cecilia Gallerani Saw it All

‘Washed Out, White Out’: A Gentrification Story

Vacation Reading, Unpacked

Squabbling Democrats, scheming Republicans and a democracy in danger

In ‘This Time Tomorrow,’ a 40-year-old gets to be 16 again

Jenna Fischer and Angela Martin share their ‘Office’ memories

Phil Mickelson’s big gambles are the subject of a new biography

2 great thrillers to read now -- and 2 for your summer reading list

Writers keep returning to Biggie. We may know as much as we ever will.

The Perfect Daughter Vanished on Prom Night. The Question Is: Why?

The Limits of Biological Psychiatry

Fernanda Melchor Explores the Human Capacity for Violence, and Grace

How Can a Safari Go Wrong? Let’s Count the Ways.

M15 Spies With One Thing in Common: They’ve Screwed Up

Candice Millard Has Given Up on Organizing Her Book Collection

The Woman Who Was Written Out of the History of Dance

Ali Smith’s ‘Companion Piece’ is a novel for people who love language

Newly Published, From Space Cats to the Mexican Revolution

Irving Rosenthal, Low-Profile Force on the Beat Scene, Dies at 91

Harnessing ESP to Forestall Death and Disaster

Until Death Do Us Part, or Our Families Get to Know Each Other

John Waters’s First Novel Is Manic, Hyperbolic and Deviant. Surprised?

The Racist Song That Has Dug Deep Roots in American Culture

After a Five-Decade Run, a Master Hangs Up His Reins

Songs of Innocence, Experience and a Galaxy Far, Far Away

‘The Last Days of Roger Federer’ is about so much more than tennis

10 noteworthy books for May