Stories from around the world feature murderers, ghosts and recluses.Stories from around the world feature murderers, ghosts and recluses.Read MoreBooks and Literature, Wild Swims (Book),…
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In Paradise, ‘Men Can’t Control Themselves’
In Cherie Jones’s debut novel, “How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House,” the lives of tourists and locals intersect in the Caribbean in 1984.In Cherie…
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In his latest book, the master of historical narrative turns his gaze on his family’s past, uncovering a criminal network in Johnstown, Pa.In his latest…
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In a new book, the journalist Amelia Pang investigates the brutal system of forced labor that undergirds China’s booming export industry.In a new book, the…
View More The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career
“Mike Nichols: A Life,” by Mark Harris, is a star-studded biography of the famous director that brims with gossip, wisecracks and showbiz lore.“Mike Nichols: A…
View More Mike Nichols’s Brilliant CareerA Novel of Sex, Faith and Lots of Yogurt
Melissa Broder’s “Milk Fed” features a troubled young woman with an eating disorder who falls for an Orthodox Jewish frozen yogurt scooper.Melissa Broder’s “Milk Fed”…
View More A Novel of Sex, Faith and Lots of YogurtThis Old Woman Has Some Important Things to Say, if Only You’d Listen
“Bina: A Novel in Warnings,” the third novel by Anakana Schofield, does not aim to please the reader but rather to communicate some crucial truths.“Bina:…
View More This Old Woman Has Some Important Things to Say, if Only You’d ListenThree Women Who Helped Their Sons Become Civil Rights Icons
In “The Three Mothers,” Anna Malaika Tubbs considers the seismic impact of the women who raised Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin.In…
View More Three Women Who Helped Their Sons Become Civil Rights IconsThe Black American City That Almost Came to Be
“Soul City,” by Thomas Healy, recounts the remarkable story of the civil rights activist Floyd McKissick and his dream to create a Black-run town on…
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