What initially looks like a collection of loosely linked short stories reveals itself to be an expertly constructed house of mirrors. Read more
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
In this important work of biographical history, novelist Sohn traces the career of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), special agent to the U.S. Post Office and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. For more than 40 years, Comstock, a deeply Christian dry goods seller from Connecticut, harassed and imprisoned many of the important pioneers in the birth control movement. Read more
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A reading guide to legendary Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez
Like many writers, García Márquez began in newspapers. Aficionados and newbies alike should consider “The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings,” a wide-ranging collection illuminating the real-life political concerns and characters that shape his celebrated fiction. Read more
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The War on History Is a War on Democracy
A scholar of totalitarianism argues that new laws restricting the discussion of race in American schools have dire precedents in Europe. Read more
J.D. Vance, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Author, Is Running for Senate in Ohio
Mr. Vance, 36, enters the campaign as a well-known and well-financed first-time candidate facing an open field. The Republican incumbent, Senator Rob Portman, is retiring after two terms. The race is one of a few in next year’s midterm elections that could determine which party controls the upper chamber of Congress, which is now split 50-50. Read more
J.P. Morgan’s librarian hid her race. A novel imagines the toll on her
Some books leave you wondering why the author has chosen to tell this particular story, and why now. This is emphatically not the case with “The Personal Librarian,” a novel about the woman who helped shape the Morgan Library’s spectacular collection of rare books and art more than a century ago. It quickly becomes clear why two popular authors, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, have teamed up to tell this important, inspirational story. Read more
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‘Bosch’ Author Michael Connelly Reveals the Book the Spin-off Is Based On
The upcoming spin-off series picks up after the events of Season 7 of Bosch, where detective Harry Bosch turns in his badge and becomes a private investigator. Read more
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New Stamp Highlights Acclaimed Author Ursula K. Le Guin
The U.S. Postal Service honors the cross-genre writings of Ursula K. Le Guin, the acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author, with the 33rd stamp in its literary series. Read more
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Author Joy Williams honored by Library of Congress
The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and dark and incisive worldview. Read more
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Lost memoir paints revered philosopher John Locke as ‘vain, lazy and pompous’
John Locke is regarded today as one of England’s greatest philosophers, an Enlightenment thinker known as the “father of liberalism”. But a previously unknown memoir attributed to one of his close friends paints a different picture – of a vain, lazy and pompous man who “amused himself with trifling works of wit”, and a plagiarist who “took from others whatever he was able to take”. Read more
