All I Want for Christmas Is My Broken Family

Rebecca Kauffman’s fifth novel, “I’ll Come to You,” is a “Corrections”-esque tale of one clan’s dysfunctions and joys in mid-90s America.

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Pregnant With One Child and 295,233 Words

During the months before she gave birth, our critic wrote — a lot. What happens when the impulse to put pen to paper becomes extreme?

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8 Books to Read About Jimmy Carter’s Life and Legacy

For many years, the 39th president generated little attention from authors. But recently books have sought to re-evaluate his reputation. Here is a look at the expanding Carter library.

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Stanley Booth, Music Journalist Who Loved the Blues, Dies at 82

He is best known for his book about the Rolling Stones. But he mostly wrote about blues artists, some of them famous (B.B. King) and some less renowned (Furry Lewis).

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Michel del Castillo, 91, Dies; Child’s-Eye Chronicler of Concentration Camps

His first novel, “Tanguy,” published when he was 24, was a fact-based Holocaust story that one reviewer said “begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.”

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The Novel About U.S. Politics So Outrageous It Nearly Wasn’t Published

Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up to his masterpiece.

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20 Books Coming in January

Novels by Adam Ross, Han Kang and Nnedi Okorafor; nonfiction by Imani Perry and the “Hipster Grifter”; and more.

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Flaco, Manhattan’s Beloved Celebrity Owl, Gets His Close-Up

In a new book, two photographers memorialize the bird that charmed New York City and the world.

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Remembering When ‘the World Really Made Sense’ on the Comics Pages

Wildly popular strips like “Bloom County,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” “Cathy,” “The Far Side” “and “Doonesbury” peaked in the 1980s, but they left their mark.

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Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers

Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems.

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Heroes in Their Twilight Years, and Still in the Spotlight

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Audiobooks to Cook (or Eat) To, From Ina Garten to David Chang

These culinary coming-of-age tales are movable feasts for the gluttonous listener.

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Staffers at The Times on the Books They Enjoyed in 2024

A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around the newsroom describe their favorite books of the year.

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‘The Mark Leyner Reader’ Doesn’t Mean Mark Leyner Is Done Writing

“I’m like one of those deranged soldiers they find on some remote island still fighting a war that’s ended decades ago,” he says. “A Shimmering, Serrated Monster!” is his collection of comic fiction.

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This Book Tour Comes With a Side of Fried Rice

Curtis Chin’s memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” celebrates the cuisine and community of his youth. Now he’s paying it forward.

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Books That Make Great Gifts

Joumana Khatib, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends a few books to readers looking for gifts for their loved ones.

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Percival Everett’s Prose Is Having a Moment. How Is His Poetry?

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.

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It’s Hard to Be the Brother of a Genius Who Died Young

In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a sympathetic portrait of the lyricist, overshadowed in a life that had him tending the legacy of his younger sibling George.

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4 Mysteries Shot Through With Malice and Grief

Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.

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The Best Book Covers of 2024

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.

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S.E. Hinton Leans on Dave Barry for Post-Election Comfort

“You can’t read a page without laughing,” says the author of “The Outsiders,” who’s watched the stage musical of the novel become a Tony Award-winning hit this year.

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6 Engrossing Historical Novels to Keep the Chill Away

Curl up with these transporting reads.

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A Novel Inspired by Images of a Young Prisoner at Auschwitz

In “The Rest Is Memory,” Lily Tuck imagines the life of a Polish teenager during the Holocaust.

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A Comedian’s Path From Small-Town Tennessee to Breakout Fame

Leanne Morgan went from helping her husband sell mobile homes to sudden success in her 50s.

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8 Great Thrillers About Bad Marriages

Lucy Foley, the author of “The Guest List,” recommends books about the most intimate of dramas, including twisty mysteries and all-time favorites like “Rebecca” and “Gone Girl.”

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Short, Sweet Reads for Fans of the American Absurd

A Don DeLillo novel; a Joy Williams short story.

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The Best Horror Fiction of 2024

We’re in a golden age of horror. Here are 10 books that stood out in a year filled with fantastic releases.

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She Revolutionized Medicine. Why Isn’t She a Household Name?

Lydia Reeder’s “The Cure for Women” tells the story of the remarkable Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.

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The Best Audiobooks of 2024

Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right.

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The Best Crime Novels of 2024

Our columnist on the year’s most outstanding crime novels.

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A Lebanese Exile Builds a Haven for Those in Need — or So the Legend Goes

The first English translation of Charif Majdalani’s 2005 novel “A History of the Big House” charts one family’s — and country’s — cycles of prosperity and ruin.

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A Cabin-Porn Star Bares All

Patrick Hutchison left city life to live an urbanite’s rural dream. The rest is funny, philosophical, chainsaw-wielding history.

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Subsidized Housing With a Wait List, and a Catch

The South Korean writer Gu Byeong-Mo’s novel “Apartment Women” imagines a commune of young families with a short fuse.

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