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Do You Recognize These Quotes From Classic Books?

Reintroducing Jessica Mitford, the Activist With a ‘Concrete Upper Lip’

Terry Martin Hekker, a Happy Housewife Scorned, Dies at 92

Shakespeare Becoming Shakespeare, With Help From His Working-Class Peers

My Kid Loves Percy Jackson. What Should They Read Next?

George Packer: ‘I’ve Stopped Being a Prig About Beautiful Writing’

These Books Were Judged by Their A.I. Covers, and Disqualified

It’s a Miracle That Mexico Exists at All

Dazzling New Historical Fiction

The Literary Master Who Made Play His Life’s Work

Do You Know These Award-Winning Books?

The Voluptuous Return of ‘Love and Rockets’

This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius

Feeling the Angst? These Nuns Have You Covered. (Not Like That.)

The Building Blocks of Life Were Just the Beginning

The Loneliness of the Larger-Than-Life Black Athlete

Don’t Recommend a Book to Bryan Washington (Unless You’re a Bookseller)

This Club Kid Knows How to Survive. The Better Question Is: How to Live?

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Year of Judging the Booker Prize

Ken Burns Brings the War of Independence to the Unruly Present

A Tale of Two Couples, and a Nation, Emerging From a Deep Freeze

The Essential Kate Atkinson

An Extravagant Dive Into Italian Cinema, Filled With Love and Death

Susan Straight’s First English Professor Turned Her On to ‘Badass’ Women

Love a Heist? These Books Deliver, With a Dose of Magic.

It’s Hard to Be Chronically Online and Hate Your Friends

Do You Know These Family Sagas of Page and Screen?

What Is Going On Inside the Department of Justice?

Disco, Djinns and 5-Star Service in Afghanistan

Book Club: Read ‘Hamnet,’ by Maggie O’Farrell, With the Book Review

23 Books Coming in November

Joseph J. Ellis Doesn’t Think You Would Have Abolished Slavery, Either

Jack Carr Knows His Way Around a Battlefield, and a Military Thriller

Images of Black Beauty and Belonging

Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close

Romance Novels That Are Spicy, Sweet and Flat-Out Stunning

Do You Recognize These Literary References in Modern Pop Culture?

Let’s Remember, Stephen King Isn’t Always Scary

A Horrific Tale of the Slave Trade, Destined to Become a Classic

Thomas McGuane: ‘I’m Not Interested in Ingenuity’

A Novel Intertwines the Many Dramas of Life in an Autocracy

Great Historical Horror Novels

How World War II Transformed America and the Globe, for Better and Worse

An Oddly Bloodless Memoir From a Masterly Chef

In This Horror Novel, the First Terror is Being Trapped on a Cruise

Ruth Weiss, Who Chronicled Apartheid After Fleeing the Nazis, Dies at 101

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

A Canine Classic Turns 25 and a New Novel Joins the Pack

Woody Allen’s First Novel: Funny-ish, but Very Familiar

She Modeled Her Whole Life on Godly Purity. Then She Woke Up.