A Dossier of Courtroom Sketches Captures the Faces of Evil
In “Drawn Testimony,” the portraitist Jane Rosenberg takes you inside high-profile federal trials across four decades.
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In “Drawn Testimony,” the portraitist Jane Rosenberg takes you inside high-profile federal trials across four decades.
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Two dreamlike picture books explore the ennui particular to the colossus.
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How the author of “The Right Stuff,” “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” and other classics turned sociology into art.
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In “Hitler’s People,” the renowned historian Richard J. Evans takes a biographical approach to the Third Reich.
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Family Is a Lot of Trouble in August’s Graphic Novels
Generational connections — and divides — abound in four new volumes that take vastly different approaches to storytelling.
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A Man Goes to See His Daughter’s Play. Turns Out It’s About Him.
In Jo Hamya’s second novel, “The Hypocrite,” a 20-something playwright puts her absent, aging writer dad on blast.
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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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Best-Seller Lists: Aug. 25, 2024
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Talent, Glamour, Money, Fraud: Welcome to the Art World
A memoir by a former high-end dealer depicts a largely unregulated industry where jet-setting extravagance goes hand in hand with guile and deceit.
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Browsing Is a Pleasure in This History of the Bookstore
“People feel differently about their bookstore than they do about their grocery store or electronics store,” writes Evan Friss, in praise of a retail ritual battered by the internet.
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The Woman Who Beat the Boys of the French New Wave to the Punch
A new biography surveys the prolific and pioneering career of the filmmaker Agnès Varda.
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A Memoir That Delivers on Its Promise of ‘Sex, Drugs, and Opera’
In “Seeing Through,” the prolific composer Ricky Ian Gordon shares the heroes, monsters, obsessions and fetishes that drive his art and fuel a dizzying life.
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy? ‘Feh’ on That.
Misery makes for good company in Shalom Auslander’s second memoir, which finds him self-deprecating, drug-dabbling, envious and, oy, middle-aged.
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Evelyn Waugh’s garrulous embalmers; Deborah Eisenberg’s urban neurotics.
In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.
By Sadie Stein
On the trail of Ralph Fiennes in 1990s Manhattan, the esteemed novelist pays a visit to a burlesque club.
By Giulia Melucci
In “Prisoner of Lies,” Barry Werth tells the story of a young C.I.A. operative who spent two decades waiting out the postwar era in a Chinese jail cell.
By Kevin Peraino
In her debut novel, “ The Instrumentalist,” Harriet Constable paints a vivid and nuanced portrait of the groundbreaking 18th-century violinist and conductor Anna Maria della Pietà.
By Valeriya Safronova
Priscilla Morris’s novel “Black Butterflies” makes the case for art in times of war.
By Bea Setton
The author discusses her best-selling new novel about family secrets and a missing camper.
In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.
By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Maya Binyam, John Szwed, Nathan Thrall and more.
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
MJ Franklin, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, gives his recommendations of four long books to spend time with.
By MJ Franklin and Claire Hogan
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