If You Want to Understand Why Democracy Is Under Attack, Read This Book

In “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve finds that the once-fringe alt-right is dead — because now it’s mainstream.

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How Well Do You Know These Works of the Harlem Renaissance?

Try this short quiz about the vibrant cultural movement that came together a century ago — and continues to be influential.

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Jill Schary Robinson, Who Wrote of Her Hollywood Upbringing, Dies at 88

A screenwriter’s daughter, she grew up in the glittering world of privilege and its contradictions, which became rich material for her memoirs and novels.

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2 Dutch Novels Plumb the Gulf Between Order and Chaos

A late-life fantasia; a surviving twin’s breakthrough.

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A Cross-Country Road Trip, With a Hidden Body in the Back Seat

In Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, “Off the Books,” a Chinese American college student chauffeurs a handsome and suspicious client from California to New York.

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Beyond ‘Bridgerton’: 3 Steamy, Summery New Historical Romances

Our columnist on vacation-ready reads.

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A ‘Real-Life Clarice Starling’ and the Murder Case That Haunts Her

In “A Hunger to Kill,” the former homicide detective Kim Mager recalls a career-defining investigation.

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Don’t Worry, Be Happy? ‘Feh’ on That.

Misery makes for good company in Shalom Auslander’s second memoir, which finds him self-deprecating, drug-dabbling, envious and, oy, middle-aged.

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How Well Do You Know Literary Brooklyn?

This bustling borough of New York City has been the setting for many novels — including the books in this short quiz.

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From Naples to New Orleans, Murder and Mayhem

Our crime columnist on four new novels.

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6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

This week's selection includes titles by Jess Row, Dasha Kiper, Rachel Louise Martin and more.

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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

The people have spoken. Here are the books they voted for.

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The Lost Art of Mummy Smuggling

In “Women in the Valley of the Kings,” Kathleen Sheppard introduces us to a group of 19th-century archaeologists who changed the field forever.

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The Nazi Jurist Who Haunts Our Broken Politics

A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.

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How Do You Tell Immigrant Stories? Dinaw Mengestu Has an Answer.

The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, “Someone Like Us.”

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Don’t Worry, It’s Only Your ‘Friendly Neighborhood Slasher’

In Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge.

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Can You Uncover the 12 Hidden Book Titles in This Puzzle?

This week’s Title Search puzzle challenges you to find a dozen works of fiction that were published during the last years of the 20th century.

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When a Father Gets Kidnapped, His Family Pays the Price

“Long Island Compromise,” the new novel by the author of “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” fictionalizes a true story.

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The Authors Call It Fiction, but in These 2 Novels the Facts Don’t Lie

A philandering father; a literary affair.

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5 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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4 Books to Read This Summer

A New York Times Book Review editor recommends four books for the summer.

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