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New Horror Novels That Chill and Entertain

The ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Author Wants Us to Give Thanks Every Day

An Apocalyptic Novel Throws Stones at the Glass House of ‘King Lear’

Poems About Dead Relatives Irk Billy Collins

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10 Picture Books That Help Kids (and Adults) Celebrate Gratitude

Shopping and Shame Share the Shelves in ‘American Bulk’

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The French Philosopher Whose Romantic Theory of Time Was All the Rage

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Glory Edim Is ‘Patiently Waiting’ for Maya Rudolph to Write a Memoir

Read the Book Review’s 1982 Nobel Interview with Gabriel García Márquez

The Bataclan Terrorists’ Trial: 10 Months of Horror and Pity

Becoming Cher Didn’t Come Easy

Read The New York Times’s 1970 Review of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

Cher Can, and Does, Turn Back Time

2 Novels That Could Almost Be Diaries

The Prado, Renowned for Its Art, Tries a New Role: Muse to Authors

A Translation of a Translation of a Novel Within a Novel

Alice in Moominland

Jenny Slate Has Learned to Chill by Reading Aloud to Her Daughter

In Every World-Weary Private Eye Is an Errant Philosopher

I Gave My Son the Books I Loved. He Chose ‘Heidi’ Instead.

A Heady History of the Novel Embraces Works That Shock, Not Soothe

He’s a Rock Critic, and a Swiftie. What’s Wrong With That?

A Coming-of-Age Novel That Crosses America’s Impossible Divide

Read Your Way Through Shanghai

Jean Hanff Korelitz Gave Spreadsheets a ‘Workout’ to Plan Her New Book

How Uvalde’s Newspaper Kept Going, Despite Unimaginable Loss

These Fantasy Books Will Transport You to Other Worlds

A French Veterinary Psychiatrist Puts Cats on the Couch

Where’s Johnny? The Biography of a TV Host Whose Life Was a Closed Book.

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Learn More About ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

Books by Jodi Picoult, John Green and Stephen King Among the Most Banned in Schools