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The K-pop stars BTS will release a book telling their own story in July. The announcement by their U.S. publisher, Flatiron Books, came after days of frantic speculation by fervent fans.
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Simon & Schuster said on Thursday that it would cancel the publication of an upcoming book by Senator Josh Hawley, one of several members of Congress who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election
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From our archives, 12/7/1938: Bette Davis's husband files for divorce, saying she reads too much
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Speaking now is Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, reading her poem “The Hill We Climb.” We spoke to Gorman about the inauguration and her poem. Read more here.
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Poems by the internet comedian @TheGabbieShow on the paperback trade fiction best-seller list
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Juan Villoro, who spent over two decades perfecting his book about Mexico City, recommends books for readers interested in its literary landscape. “Mexico is too complex to understand with the naked eye,” a visitor said. “It needs to be read.”
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Eric Carle, the author of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” a tale that has charmed generations of children and parents alike, died on Sunday. He was 91.
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From our archives, 12/7/1938: Bette Davis's husband files for divorce because she "reads books too much"
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Internet Archive is ending its program of offering free, unrestricted copies of e-books because of a lawsuit from publishers, which said lending out books without compensation for authors or publishing houses was “willful mass copyright infringement”
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It's here! 57 of the latest thrillers, romance novels, cookbooks and more. We promise they'll entertain you, offer escape and stretch your horizons this season, no matter if you're on the beach or in your bedroom.
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Ibram X. Kendi's antiracist reading list. As he writes: "Think of it as a stepladder to antiracism, each step addressing a different stage of the journey toward destroying racism’s insidious hold on all of us."
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One year ago, Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history with her poem “The Hill We Climb.” Revisit the poem here.
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Breaking: Barnes and Noble has been acquired by the hedge fund Elliott Advisors for $638 million. It caps months of speculation over the future of the bookstore, which has been struggling to make a profit. Our story:
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In 1930, John Steinbeck wrote a werewolf murder mystery in nine days. A literature professor at Stanford says that it deserves to finally be published. Steinbeck's literary agents disagree.
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What John McCain learned from reading Hemingway: "No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past."
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. @AnnaKendrick47 tells us about her favorite books and writers
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As highly visible and politicized book bans have exploded across the country, librarians have found themselves on the front lines of an acrimonious culture war, with their careers and their personal reputations at risk.
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In his new memoir, John Boehner seems to regret what the modern Republican Party has become, but his record shows that he had a large hand in creating it, our reviewer says. Read the full review:
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Here’s our full list of the 10 Best Books of 2021. Learn more about each title here:
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It’s here, our list of the 100 Notable Books of 2020, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review
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Amanda Gorman on Sunday became the first poet ever to perform for the Super Bowl, delivering an original poem titled “Chorus of the Captains” in a taped segment before the game
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An author was offered a deal with Scholastic, the largest children’s book publisher, but asked to remove references to racism. She refused. The case became an example of how the debate around book banning in schools has reached publishers.
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BookTube: It's like YouTube, but for readers
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We profiled Alex Trebek in July, ahead of the release of his memoir, “The Answer Is …: Reflections on My Life.” “There is reality, and there’s nothing wrong with accepting reality,” he said.  Read our full story here.
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Imani Perry has won the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.” Read our review. #NBAwards
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“The Bench,” by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, sits atop our children’s picture book best-seller list.
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Here are the 10 Best Books of 2020, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
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11 new books recommended by critics and editors at The New York Times
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11 new books recommended by critics and editors at The New York Times
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Here are the 100 Notable Books of 2020, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review
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A Jane Austen museum wants to add context to its exhibits about the writer, including information about her family’s ties to the slave trade. Not everyone is thrilled.
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“It’s just an occupational hazard for investigative reporters that powerful interests go after them and their work,” Ronan Farrow says
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Larry McMurtry, a prolific novelist and screenwriter who demythologized the American West with his unromantic depictions of life on the 19th-century frontier and in contemporary small-town Texas, died on Thursday. He was 84.
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Susskind's predictions will likely make his book catnip to supporters of the presidential candidate Andrew Yang, whose campaign focuses on solutions to technological unemployment
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Spiro Agnew may be nearly forgotten today, but in their new book, "Bag Man," Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz remind us what the face of total corruption looks like
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Charles Yu has won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction for his book “Interior Chinatown.” Read our review of the book here. “What makes the novel so compelling is its strong commitment to characterization.” #NBAwards .
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Peter, the first black protagonist of a full-color American picture book, will be the new face of "Forever" stamps
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Virginia Woolf was "among the first writers to understand that there are no insignificant lives, only inadequate ways of looking at them," writes Michael Cunningham in this homage to her revolutionary novel "Mrs. Dalloway"
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Looking for a good book? Our reader's guide to this fall's literary awards.
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Our hearts go out to the debut authors of the season, many of whom spent years, perhaps a lifetime, waiting for the dream moment when their first book would make its way into the world.
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Prince Harry’s memoir “Spare” is a No. 1 debut on the latest monthly audio nonfiction best-seller list.
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Breaking News: Beverly Cleary, who enthralled young readers with the adventures and mishaps of Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, the bratty Ramona Quimby and her older sister Beezus, and other residents of Klickitat Street, died on Thursday. She was 104.
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News: Lisa Lucas, the executive director of the National Book Foundation, will become the publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books. A rare changing of the guard in publishing promises to change the industry, and the books it puts out into the world.
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11 new books recommended by critics and editors at The New York Times
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The first-ever issue of The New York Times Book Review was published in 1896, which means... 2021 marks our 125th anniversary! Here are 25 great writers and thinkers who have contributed to our pages throughout our 125 years.
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Ibram X. Kendi's antiracist reading list. As he puts it: "Think of it as a stepladder to antiracism, each step addressing a different stage of the journey toward destroying racism’s insidious hold on all of us."
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Helga Weyhe ran her bookstore in Germany until she died at 98. She was the third generation of her family to run the store, which was founded in 1840, before Germany was a country, and endured through World War I, the Weimar Republic and the Nazi regime.
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Announcing the 100 Notable Books of 2018
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Here are the 10 Best Books of 2021, selected by editors at The New York Times Book Review.
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Chloe Gong got her start as an obsessive, book-a-day reader of young adult fiction. Then she wrote eight unpublished novels. Now, at 21, the University of Pennsylvania senior is on the best-seller list with "These Violent Delights."
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The women relied on a mixture of mathematical expertise, memorization and occasional leaps of intuition
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Customers lined up outside the Strand in downtown Manhattan after the bookstore said on social media that its business had become unsustainable
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"I didn't want to write in code anymore," said John Green of "The Anthropocene Reviewed," his first book for adults. "I wanted to try to write as myself."
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"Find Me," André Aciman's new sequel to "Call Me by Your Name," brings back Oliver and Elio, but they're no longer center stage
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9 new books recommended by editors at The New York Times
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The F.B.I. has arrested a suspect in a yearslong phishing scam, saying that the man “impersonated, defrauded, and attempted to defraud, hundreds of individuals,” obtaining hundreds of unpublished book manuscripts in the process.
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What we believe about gender, why it's wrong and how we came to think that way
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Here are the 10 Best Books of 2022, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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Cherie Dimaline, Waubgeshig Rice, Rebecca Roanhorse, Darcie Little Badger and Stephen Graham Jones are reshaping North American science fiction, horror and fantasy — genres in which Native writers have long been overlooked
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In the aftermath of the devastating tsunami of 2011, Japanese survivors began to see ghosts: one old lady dropped in for tea with some neighbors, who didn't have the heart to tell her she was dead.
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Michelle McNamara died before she completed "I'll Be Gone in the Dark," her book about the Golden State Killer. Her husband, Patton Oswalt, didn't want her work to be in vain.
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A new biography of Hitler places him at the center of the genocide against the Jews but also says that without the support of thousands, the Holocaust could never have been carried out
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Malala's first picture book is an excellent way "to begin conversations about world injustice with children"
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It's #WorldBookDay . Tell us what you're reading!
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Cormac McCarthy will publish two interlinked novels this fall that are a significant thematic and stylistic departure from his earlier work. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has not released a novel since “The Road,” which came out in 2006.
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George Steiner, the essayist, fiction writer, teacher, scholar and literary critic, has died at 90:
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“Turtles All the Way Down” by @johngreen debuted at no. 1 on our young adult hardcover best-seller list on Oct. 29 and has stayed there for 11 weeks
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Alexander Vindman, the whistle-blower in the first Trump impeachment, never expected to become a key figure in history's spotlight.
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Announcing the Best Books of 2019
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Not to give anything away, but “in about five billion years, the sun will swell to its red giant phase, engulf the orbit of Mercury and perhaps Venus, and leave the Earth a charred, lifeless, magma-covered rock”
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In "Why Not Me?", @MindyKaling echoes the struggle of many women of color in all-white spaces: to convince themselves they're worthy of their dreams when their environment and society says otherwise
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Breaking News: The Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, known for “Song of Solomon” and “Beloved,” died at 88. Her work explored black identity in America.
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Barbara Neely, an uncelebrated social activist who in her 50s became an award-winning writer of mystery novels centered on a savvy black maid who doubled as an amateur detective, has died. She was 78.
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Stacey Abrams has written 8 romance novels. Now her fellow authors are raising money for Georgia Democrats.
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"We are all at home, but none of us are alone," the children's author Oliver Jeffers recently wrote on his website. "Let’s be bored together."
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What’s the last book you’ll read this year?
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A podcast devoted to the Harry Potter books has a cult following, with their own merch, meet-ups and fan art. Meet @malloryrubin and @netw3rk , the hosts of @binge_mode .
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In the Catalan writer Quim Monzó’s version of classic fairy tales, a prince kisses a toad and is rewarded with the woman of his dreams. Then he wonders what to say. "Should he suggest they go straight to his place or will she take it the wrong way?”
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After spinal surgery, learning to walk again and then badly fracturing his arm, Michael J. Fox wondered if he oversold the idea of hope in his first three books. “What have I been telling people? I tell people it’s all going to be OK — and it might suck!”
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Brayden Harrington, 13, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention, will write a picture book, “Brayden Speaks Up,” HarperCollins announced
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Virginia Woolf was "among the first writers to understand that there are no insignificant lives, only inadequate ways of looking at them," writes Michael Cunningham in this homage to her revolutionary novel "Mrs. Dalloway"
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Sally Rooney's next book is coming in September. The novel, which follows four young people in Ireland, is part of a two-book deal for the best-selling author of “Normal People” and “Conversations With Friends.”
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Breaking: ViacomCBS has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House for more than $2 billion in a deal that will create the first megapublisher
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"She was a one-person reminder that if winter is here, then spring cannot be far behind." @DwightGarner on Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem and reading.
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"The behavior documented in 'Catch and Kill' is obviously and profoundly distressing. … But there are some hopeful threads, too," writes our critic @jenszalai
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