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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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Forget ‘Fee Fi Fo Fum’: Dave Eggers on Gentler Giants
Two dreamlike picture books explore the ennui particular to the colossus.
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The Secret to Tom Wolfe’s Irresistible Snap, Crackle and Pop
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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His Trilogy Explored the Nazi Era. Now He Looks at the People Behind It.
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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CreditSonny Figueroa/The New York Times 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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Credit editors’ choiceThe 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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More in Books of The Times ›Brooklyn? Bah. Manhattan? Meh. A New Book Calls the Bronx the City’s Best Borough.
Ian Frazier’s history roams far and wide, on foot and in the archives, celebrating (if not romanticizing) a perennially “in between” part of New York.
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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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“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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CreditDaniel Dorsa for The New York Times 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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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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FictionTwo Sisters Take On the 20th Century, With Ghosts in Tow
A new novel recalls a dark period of El Salvador’s history, as well as Hollywood’s Golden Age and the art salons of Paris.
By Marie Arana
FictionHow Does a Single Water Droplet Connect People Across Centuries?
Elif Shafak’s new novel, “There Are Rivers in the Sky,” follows the same drop of water from the Tigris to the Thames, from antiquity to the 19th century to today.
By Stephen Markley
Can We Talk? The Characters in These 2 Books Can, and How
Evelyn Waugh’s garrulous embalmers; Deborah Eisenberg’s urban neurotics.
Sausage Legs and Wax Nose Jobs: Peeling the Layers on a Century of Beauty
In “All the Rage,” the social historian Virginia Nicholson discusses the changing standards that bedeviled and enthralled a century of women.
By Sadie Stein
episodeMy Wild Night With Edna O’Brien
On the trail of Ralph Fiennes in 1990s Manhattan, the esteemed novelist pays a visit to a burlesque club.
By Giulia Melucci
NonfictionThe Spy America Left to Rot
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
FictionShe Was a Pioneering but Forgotten Musician. Now She’s a Literary Hero.
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
FictionWeathering the Long Siege of Sarajevo Alone, a Painter Keeps Painting
Priscilla Morris’s novel “Black Butterflies” makes the case for art in times of war.
By Bea Setton
Liz Moore on ‘The God of the Woods’
The author discusses her best-selling new novel about family secrets and a missing camper.
A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt
In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.
By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean
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