In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever. Read more
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America’s First War on Drugs Was Also a War on Jazz
Laws criminalizing the entire range of recreational drugs were a powerful weapon with which hostile law enforcement could target Black people in general and Black jazz musicians in particular. Read more
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‘A Violent Masterpiece’ by Jordan Harper
Jordan Harper knows the entertainment industry from the inside out. His new novel, “A Violent Masterpiece,” holds nothing back. Read more
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‘Kurt Vonnegut Drawings’
“…the refreshing images featured here ‘illustrate beautifully a creative mind at play,’ and will delight Vonnegut fans.” Read more
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‘Transcription’ by Ben Lerner
Lerner’s lyrical narrative brims with insights into how memories take and change shape, the nature of father figures, and the ways an artist’s influence echoes through time. It’s a knockout. Read more
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‘London Falling’ by Patrick Radden Keefe
Keefe, the author of some of this century’s finest nonfiction, has crafted another masterwork. This is a penetrating portrait of a young man destroyed by malignant influences given free rein in a global hub of capitalist excess. Read more
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‘The Keeper’ Is a Grand Finale to Tana French’s Cal Hooper Crime Series
The Cal Hooper books, like all great detective series, are about time and loss and the uphill struggle to repair the world. The detectives rarely succeed in any lasting way, but we readers love them because they try. Read more
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How the Pentagon Got Hooked on AI War Machines
An excerpt from the coming book Project Maven shows how the US enlisted Silicon Valley in its vision for AI warfare, now playing out in Iran. Read more
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Lauren Groff’s Newest Stories Prove She’s Among the Best in the Game
The stories in Lauren Groff’s third collection, “Brawler,” largely feature people who’ve hit crisis points in their lives: the abusive partner, the natural disaster, the relapse, the deathbed. This is as it ought to be with short stories, which have to make their points in a relative hurry. Groff, a perpetual bestseller, is gifted at that: Her previous collection, “Florida,” was a National Book Award finalist, along with two of her other books that earned the honor. Read more
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‘The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief’
Holmes, master biographer that he is, vividly conjures up this awkward, compelling figure. What gives his book its exceptional energy, though, is not what is happening on the surface of Tennyson’s life and Holmes’s narrative. It is the powerful undertow of threatened belief and existential anxiety tugging the reader down … This biography is a compelling story of an odd, brilliant, charismatic character, and a reappraisal of a man who had become so very established we could no longer see him. Read more
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