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12 New Books We Recommend This Week

Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll

A Study of Friendship Where the Past Really Is Another Country

The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

What to Read by (and About) Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel, Prize-Winning Author of Historical Fiction, Dies at 70

Swashbuckling Nautical Adventure Meets the 18th-Century Slave Trade

‘The Furrows’ captures the disorienting nature of grief

A migrant child’s long journey to Gringolandia

John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94

The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia

Consumerism and Catastrophe

‘The English Understand Wool’ is a little gift to Helen DeWitt fans

Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked

Advocacy Groups Are Helping Drive a Rise in Book Bans

The Thursday Murder Club is back in action and as entertaining as ever

The queen of their dreams

In the 1990s, the GOP got a hard push to the right

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

The Essential Judy Blume

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

Javier Marías, celebrated Spanish author, dies at 70

Rasheed Newson’s debut is entertainment with a side of education

Strong Women, Madwomen, Mob Women

3 new audiobooks to kick off your fall playlist

How disability advocate Alice Wong turned her anger into action

Anne Garrels, intrepid war correspondent for NPR, dies at 91

Washington Post paperback bestsellers

Are we ready to poke fun at pandemic times? Christopher Buckley is.

Five new thrillers to kick off your fall reading

A Black mother’s wary embrace of her neighborhood’s White mommy group

Schoolchildren’s pandemic struggles, made worse by U.S. policies

A peek at the landmark exhibition ‘In the Black Fantastic’

Miss Marple is Agatha Christie’s best character. A new book reminds us why.