The dig on “Weekend Update” sparks complaints, but spotlights the stark vaccine gulf between Israelis and Palestinians.The dig on “Weekend Update” sparks complaints, but spotlights…
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View More How Plagues Shape the LandscapeIn her new novel, “The Smash-Up,” Ali Benjamin takes readers on an exhilarating ride through a crisis propelled by real-life events.In her new novel, “The…
View More Rage Sets a Couple on a Collision Course. Who Will Absorb the Impact?“Tangled Up in Blue,” by Rosa Brooks, and “We Own This City,” by Justin Fenton, take readers inside two police forces (in Washington and Baltimore)…
View More The Merit, Thrills, Boredom and Fear of Police Work“Raceless,” by Georgina Lawton, and “Surviving The White Gaze,” by Rebecca Carroll, follow two Black women who discover their racial identity after a childhood separated…
View More They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated.New books look at what it was like to be in the Roman military 2,000 years ago and in the American military today.New books look…
View More The Life of a SoldierIn “Two Truths and a Lie,” “Confident Women” and “The Officer’s Daughter,” readers feel the aftershocks of felonies and malfeasances.In “Two Truths and a Lie,”…
View More True Crime Gets Its Close-UpThe protagonist of Jack Livings’s novel, “The Blizzard Party,” recalls the late-1970s blowout bash in an Upper West Side penthouse that marked her and her…
View More A Drug-Fueled New York City Bacchanal and the Lives It Changed“The Bone Fire,” by Gyorgy Dragoman, follows a 13-year-old girl as she navigates political upheaval and an uncanny world.“The Bone Fire,” by Gyorgy Dragoman, follows…
View More Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother“The Slaughterman’s Daughter,” by Yaniv Iczkovits, is a sprawling 19th-century quest narrative set in czarist Russia.“The Slaughterman’s Daughter,” by Yaniv Iczkovits, is a sprawling 19th-century…
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