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“Gods of the Upper Air,” by Charles King, tells the story of the anthropologist Franz Boas and those he influenced, including Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston.
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Jia Tolentino’s essay collection, a highly anticipated new novel from Téa Obreht, a Japanese thriller and more.
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Cecelia Watson’s “biography” is about the unusually controversial punctuation mark that is different than your workaday periods and commas.
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The translation of “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” removed or altered passages critical of Putin’s administration, as well as references to the author’s sexuality.
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The British author, whose latest novel is “Reasons to Be Cheerful,” says that “fictional animals were fundamental to my early reading and continue to score high, emotionally.”
The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969.
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Ted Chiang talks about “Exhalation,” and Helen Phillips discusses “The Need.”
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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In “Our Women on the Ground,” an anthology edited by the Lebanese-British journalist Zahra Hankir, 19 female journalists recount their experiences.
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Ingeborg Bachmann’s novel “Malina” is as much a tormented existential thriller as it is a haunted war story by the daughter of an Austrian Nazi.
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“Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda” claims to contain the fullest collection of Zelda’s side of the correspondence.
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In her new book, the linguist Gretchen McCulloch breaks down just how life online has rewritten the rules of how we communicate.
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In “The Weil Conjectures,” Karen Olsson writes about her own love of math as well as the lives of the great mathematician André Weil and his sister, the philosopher and secular saint Simone Weil.
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