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Meet the Queen Bee of Victorian Abortionists

Meet the Electrome. It Can Turn You Into an Assassin.

All of Life’s Griefs and Joys, in 4 Generations of Women

A Sister’s Murder and the Language of Violence

Frozen Poop Chisels and Amputated Toes: A Life of Arctic Adventure

For Thomas Mann, the World’s Chaos Is Inside the House

Unlikely Rebels With a Very Good Cause

Exploring the Wilds: Magical Marshlands, Nascent Planets

Sizzling Hot Books for Cold Winter Days

Grief, Pain and the Lingering Impact of Trauma on Black Women’s Bodies

Newly Published, From Press Freedom to the History of Ignorance

A Poet Whose Tone Was Personal and Whose Vision Was Vast

An Extraordinary Memoir of a Black American Boyhood

QAnon and the Fear and Loathing of an American Conspiracy Theory

A Podcaster Goes Back to School, Ready to Listen

Marriage on the Alaskan Frontier? Not for the Faint of Heart.

Even a Mother Can’t Body-Block Mental Illness

Public Libraries, and Profiling Paul Harding

Walter Mosley’s New York: Classes Divided, Races at War

Is the Marriage Between Democracy and Capitalism on the Rocks?

Read Your Way Through São Paulo

A Novel of ‘Dangerous Love’ in a Country Racked by Civil War

Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong?

Her Father Was a Drama Critic, Her Mother a Superstar Agent

The Man Who Caught Marilyn Monroe’s Skirt on Film

A Writer’s Lament: The Better You Write, the More You Will Fail

In a Time of Endings, a Writer Finds Her Voice

Jojo Moyes’s Grandmother Knew a Bookworm When She Saw One

Newly Published, From Hip Hop Style to Psychic Weapons

A Cockeyed Optimist: Oscar Hammerstein Was No Stephen Sondheim

When the Government Goes Top Secret, Who Can Write Its History?

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue. For Poets in Love, Only Couplets Will Do.

The Essential Colette

Conversations With Friends, in a Russian Jail Cell

A Novelist Bridges the Class Divide in Contemporary Nigeria

She Grabs the Wrong Gym Bag, and Carries It Into a New Life

As Wallace Stevens Once Put It: Hi!

Storming Normandy in 1346

They Crossed Paths in Second Grade. Now They’re Best Sellers.

Salman Rushdie’s Miracle City