The Real Nanny Diaries
A writing workshop in Brooklyn helps caregivers explore their role in children’s lives by writing fables.
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‘The Woman in the Window’ Nods to Classics Old and New, From Hitchcock to ‘The Girl on the Train’
A. J. Finn’s psychological thriller is about a woman who believes she’s witnessed a crime in a neighboring building.
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Keep up with the latest and greatest in books. The New York Times Book Review has curated a calendar of must-know literary events in 2018, including new books, festivals, film adaptations, and more.
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‘Neon in Daylight’ Lights Up Ambivalence With Shades of Didion and Others
Hermione Hoby’s first novel is about characters struggling to connect to their desires in the months before Hurricane Sandy hits New York.
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CreditPhilippe Merle/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli Novelist Haunted by the Holocaust, Dies at 85
Mr. Appelfeld, a survivor himself, made the plight of Jews during World War II his great subject, but in stories told obliquely, from a seemingly naïve viewpoint.
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CreditWendy Maeda/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images A Literary Portrait of Richard Avedon Causes Controversy
A book about the photographer by his longtime business manager has drawn criticism from Avedon’s friends and colleagues, who say it is riddled with errors and falsehoods.
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CreditMatt and Stan Chase We Are What We Read
Two new books, by Martin Puchner and Abigail Williams, explore how literature has shaped human society.
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Brendan I. Koerner talks about “Megafire” and “Firestorm,” and Henry Fountain discusses “The Great Quake.”
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Credit Sex and Faith Overheat in Jamie Quatro’s ‘Fire Sermon’
Quatro’s first novel, following an acclaimed collection of stories, is about a religious woman in a passionless marriage.
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Credit On the Lam With Timothy Leary
“The Most Dangerous Man in America,” by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, recounts the LSD advocate’s globe-trotting attempt to outrun Richard Nixon and the American law.
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Credit A Novelist’s Requiem for the Male Libido
The jealous and aging protagonist of Hanif Kureishi’s novel “The Nothing” uses his hearing aid to spy on his young wife and her friend.
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Credit Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death
“The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” has wisdom about sorting through and disposing of many of your possessions, and “The Southern Sympathy Cookbook” offers “funeral food with a twist.”
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Credit An Account of Surviving Assault Mixes Horror and Humor
Myriam Gurba’s “Mean” adds a necessary dimension to the discussion of the interplay of race, class and sexuality in sexual violence.
