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“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today.
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The best stories in Honor Levy’s “My First Book” capture the quiet desperation of today’s smart set. But there is such a thing as publishing too soon.
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In “The Demon of Unrest,” present-day political strife inspires a dramatic portrait of the run-up to the deadliest war on American soil.
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17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring
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27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring
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She Wrote ‘The History of White People.’ She Has a Lot More to Say.
“I Just Keep Talking,” a collection of essays and artwork by the historian Nell Irvin Painter, captures her wide-ranging interests and original mind.
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Inside MAGA’s Plan to Take Over America
“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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His essay warning that dictatorship was a real threat went viral, which prompted the early release of “Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart — Again.” To relax, he reads the sports pages.
For the first time, China has more than 100 incarcerated writers, and Israel and Russia entered the list of the 10 countries with the most imprisoned writers.
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The novelist played with reality and chance in tales of solitary narrators and mutable identities. Here’s an overview of his work.
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These authors investigate the interior lives of Palestinians charged with violence and probe the confines of Israeli prisons.
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A complicated, generous life yielded a body of work of staggering scope and variety.
By Lucy Sante
With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.
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Our columnist reviews this month’s latest scary releases.
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Wenyan Lu’s novel, “The Funeral Cryer,” explores a Chinese tradition through a modern, more personal lens.
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Rachel Khong’s new novel follows three generations of Chinese Americans as they all fight for self-determination in their own way.
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Try this short quiz on novels, geography and history of the American West.
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