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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

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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