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  2. The Fashion Influencers of the French Revolution

    “Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.

     By Dina Gachman

    The discovery of a rare set of fashion plates from a French Revolution-era magazine gave Anne Higonnet insight into a time when women’s clothing became a force of cultural and social change.
    The discovery of a rare set of fashion plates from a French Revolution-era magazine gave Anne Higonnet insight into a time when women’s clothing became a force of cultural and social change.
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    1. Did Richard III Kill the Princes in the Tower?

      Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III’s remains. Now, she’s trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews?

       By Amelia Nierenberg

      Philippa Langley, an independent historian, is perhaps Richard III’s most dedicated defender.
      Philippa Langley, an independent historian, is perhaps Richard III’s most dedicated defender.
      CreditRobert Ormerod for The New York Times
    2. Self-Help

      These Books Might Make You Happier

      Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.

       By Judith Newman

      CreditNishant Choksi

  1. The Essential Joan Didion

    Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

     By Alissa Wilkinson

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  2. She Loves Amalfi, Aperol and Killing Off Her Ex in Fiction

    Our crime columnist on mysteries by Catherine Mack, Katrina Carrasco, Marcia Muller and K.C. Constantine.

     By Sarah Weinman

    CreditPablo Amargo
    Crime & Mystery

  3. Asian American Children Are Front and Center in a New Version of a Groundbreaking Work

    Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat’s “Made in Asian America” spotlights young people who defy erasure and make their own history.

     By Paula Yoo

    Bryan Zhao presents his eighth-grade curriculum fair project in Princeton, N.J., in 2023.
    CreditFrom “Made in Asian America”
    Children’s Books

  4. The Complicated Artist Behind the Moomins

    The Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson had a love-hate relationship with her most famous creations.

     By Nadja Spiegelman

    Published and received as children’s books, the Moomin series appealed equally to adults.
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    nonfiction

  5. Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Good Material,’ by Dolly Alderton

    The writer Dolly Alderton has long had an avid following in her native England, but with her best-selling comic novel “Good Material” she’s become a trans-Atlantic success.

     

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  1. Anne Lamott Has Written Classics. This Is Not One of Them.

    Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction.

     By Alexandra Jacobs

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  2. Long Before Trump, Immigrant Detention Was Arbitrary and Cruel

    “In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, was built in 2014 to house up to 2,400 undocumented women and children.
    CreditIlana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

  3. Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Stabbing in a New Memoir

    “Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.

     By Dwight Garner

    CreditClément Pascal for The New York Times

  4. For Caleb Carr, Salvation Arrived on Little Cat’s Feet

    As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a new memoir, “My Beloved Monster.”

     By Alexandra Jacobs

    Masha, the cat at the heart of Caleb Carr’s memoir, enjoys classical music, hankers to wander free and “eats like a barbarian queen,” he writes.
    CreditGabrielle Lamontagne

  5. Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?

    In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    Look like someone you know? No longer the hunched and hairy creatures of the 1980s and ’90s, Neanderthals are now depicted as blond and blue-eyed tool users.
    CreditSculpture: E.Daynes; Photo: S.Entressangle/LookatSciences, via Science Source
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  9. The Essential Joan Didion

    Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

    By Alissa Wilkinson

     

  10. Did Richard III Kill the Princes in the Tower?

    Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III’s remains. Now, she’s trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews?

    By Amelia Nierenberg

     
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