5 Hot Books: A Cancer Doctor With Stage IV Cancer, Pope Francis on Mercy & More
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And fighting over fancy co-op hallways on Manhattan's Upper East Side
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Video: Today is Simone de Beauvoir's Birthday: Here She Is Talking About Why She Became a Feminist
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And About What She Meant By "One is Not Born, But Rather Becomes, a Woman."
Review: A Story of Obsession: These People Really Love Their Rare Porcelain
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De Waal is a master at conjuring the seductive power stored in things
Read MoreReview: Islamic State, the Murder of James Foley, and the Miasma of Horror that Continues Today
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A Gripping Account of an Unspeakable Horror, and Its Aftermath
Read More5 Hot Books: A New Take on Prohibition, Writings of an Internet Activist Who Died Tragically & More
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And a Memoir of Middle Age from Comedian Michael Ian Black
Read MoreBook Award News: It's Great Year for Women First-Time Fiction Authors
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The NBCC's John Leonard Long List is All Women and All Fiction Writers
Read MoreNews: Yikes! Adult Coloring Books Now Hold 9 of the Top 20 Spots on Amazon’s Bestsellers List
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The crayons-for-adults craze has a lot of fans -- and some critics, who find it disturbingly regressive
Read More5 Hot Books: A Harvard Business School Professor on How Your Bad Posture May Be Sabotaging You, Hitler Using Cocaine & More
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And Playwright David Hare's Memoir of Post-War England
Read MoreReview: ‘Black Earth’: A New Take on How the Holocaust Happened
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A compelling history that also speaks to the present and the future
Read MoreQ&A: Revelation, Jonah, Song of Songs, and More: Great Writers Reflect on the Bible
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Talking with editor Andrew Blauner about his literary anthology about the Good Book
Read MoreGood News: Cancel the Obituaries -- Print Book Sales for 2015 are . . . Up
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It's actually the second consecutive year of increased print sales
Read More5 Hot Books: A History of Stand-Up Comedy, the Novel Behind the New Leo DiCaprio Movie, and More
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And a Cultural History of Men and their Beards and Moustaches
Read MoreRead This: The Beautiful, Glamorous, Brutal, Legendary Life of Frank Sinatra
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Kaplan reminds us how much drama and mayhem -- and singing and acting -- Sinatra packed into just the second half of his life
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5 Hot Books: Simon Winchester on the Pacific Ocean, Oliver Sacks on Gratitude, and a Fun History of Jewelry
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And Molly Crabapple's Powerful, Richly Illustrated Memoir
Read MoreQ&A: Sam Freedman on The New York Times Reporter Who Changed AIDS Journalism Before Dying of AIDS
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The Times covered AIDS as a medical or political story. Jeff Schmalz made it a human story.
Read MoreQ&A: A Public Radio Journalist On Writing a Book with a Dying Man
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I really wasn’t convinced that talking to a dying man for a breakfast hour radio show would be something listeners would want to hear.
Read More5 Hot Books: A Big, Juicy Sinatra Biography and the Real-Life Tragedy Behind Moby Dick
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Books People Are Talking About This Week -- Or Should Be
Read MoreReview: Who's a Good Dog Book? Beloved Dog is a (Very) Good Dog Book
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If ever an inanimate object radiated pure love, Beloved Dog is that item.
Read MoreReview: A Feminist Icon Takes Us On a Sometimes Too-Fast-Moving Adventure
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From family car trips, to founding Ms. Magazine, to India
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And a beautifully written memoir from the son of two famous 1960s radicals