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The Saucy Polymath Who Scandalized 17th-Century London

A Body, a Family and the Woman Who Changed Everything

18 New Books Coming in January

Audiobook of the Week: How to ‘Contain’ the Threat of A.I.?

David Mamet Names the Books That Explain the Real Hollywood

The Fine Art of the Paperback Makeover

The Year in Graphic Novels

Can You Find These 12 Hidden Holiday Books?

Animal Magnetism — and Optimism

Chloë Sevigny Reads a Steamy Audiobook Romance

9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Kathy Hourigan Is Retiring, but Not From Robert Caro

Dan Greenburg, Who Poked Fun With His Pen, Dies at 87

What Wonders Do Ray Bradbury’s Letters Reveal?

The Mostest for the Hostess: The Joy of Vintage Guides to Throwing a Party

Two Pleasingly Compact Books

The Books Readers Loved in 2023

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

Night and Day in 3 New Picture Books

Listen to Ntozake Shange Like You’ve Never Heard Her Before

For Kate Christensen, Bad Prose Can Never Yield a Great Book

The Weirdos of the Star-Spangled Cosmos and What They Reveal

She ‘Review Bombed’ Other Writers. Then Her Book Got Pulled.

A Poet of His Time, for Better and Worse

Do You Know These Novels With Academic Settings?

David Mamet, a.k.a. ‘Embittered Dave,’ Would Like a Word

2 Books for Cooks

The Best Poetry of 2023

The Right Book Can Make Sigrid Nunez Miss Her Subway Stop

Read Your Way Through Madrid

When a Daughter Has a Lot to Learn From Her Mother

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2023

The Critics’ Picks: A Year in Reading

A Complicated Return for a Prodigal Daughter

A Subversive Counternarrative to the Biblical Story of Jezebel