REVIEW: Julian Barnes's Dismaying Novel Weighs the Pros and Cons of Love
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Would You Rather Love More and Suffer More or Love Less and Suffer Less?
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REVIEW: What Should We Do About China? Robert Kaplan Has Some Ideas
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Some Well-Considered Advice that a Certain President Should Contemplate
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A Moment When Russian Christians Turned Violently on their Jewish Neighbors
Read MoreREVIEW: The Remarkable True-Life Story of the Original Siamese Twins
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Chang and Eng Gained Fame in America -- and Were Called a "Freak of Nature"
Read MoreREVIEW: A Spectacular Novel of Gay Lives, and Loves, Over Time
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It's the Latest Work from Man Booker Prize Winner Alan Hollinghurst
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A Kayaking Trip in the Pacific Northwest Goes Horribly Awry
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Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein Contemplates an Authoritarian Future
Read MoreREVIEW: A Rapturous New Oral History of 'Angels in America'
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This Oral History is, Like the Play it Chronicles, a Masterpiece of its Art Form
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With a Mysterious Woman at the Center, Who Has a Lifetime of Secrets
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“Words are always at the heart of all our problems, and the beginning of all our solutions.”
Read MoreREVIEW: Joseph Conrad: Witness to a Changing, Often-Horrific World
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Using the Novelist's Life to Examine the Often-Troubling Rise of Globalization
Read MoreREVIEW: A Son's Memoir of the Golden Age of Cartoonists
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The World of John Cullen Murphy, Drawer of Prince Valiant, and His Friends
Read MoreREVIEW: Ali Smith's 'Winter' is a Fine, Intricate Novel of Friendship and Life
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A Remarkable Second Volume in the Author's Planned Four-Part Seasonal Quartet
Read MoreREVIEW: A Revealing Look at the Hidden Lives of Child Prodigies
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Getting Into Harvard at Age 11, Being a Piano Virtuoso at Age 4, and Other Unusual Life Trajectories
Read MoreREVIEW: A History of New York City that Focuses on its Remarkable Rise
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For New York, 1898-1919 Was an Era of Vigor, Optimism, Energy, and Struggle
Read MoreREVIEW: Remembering the 'Wobblies,' a Fabled, Fighting Labor Union
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Industrial Workers Who Believed in Militancy, Solidarity, and Songs
Read MoreREVIEW: In These Fraught Times, Is there a Better Way to Think About Race?
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A Philosopher, who is Himself Biracial, Offers Up a New Way to Think About an Old Issue
Read MoreREVIEW: Trumpian Fantasies Have a Long History -- and Perhaps a Dire Future
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Kurt Andersen Says America Has Always Believed in Hokum -- but It's Looking Darker These Days
Read MoreREVIEW: 'How to Behave in a Crowd,' a Too-Clever Novel of Family Life
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Poor Dory, Surrounded by Five Very Brilliant -- and Off-Putting -- Older Siblings
Read MoreREVIEW: Alice McDermott's 'The Ninth Hour' Looks at a Woman on the Verge
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A Young Widow Finds an Unholy Love, and Puts Her Soul in the Balance
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