REVIEW: How the Blackwell Sisters Broke into Medicine -- and Changed It Forever
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Two Women Who Broke the Medical Glass Ceiling in the Mid-1800s
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5 HOT BOOKS: Hockey Parents, Lincoln and the End of American Slavery, and More
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And an Explorer Who Bravely Battled Frozen Seas, Frigid Temperatures, and Polar Bear Attacks
Read MoreREVIEW: A New Yorker Writer's Well-Timed Biography of a Man Named Biden
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A Life Marked by Extraordinary Tragedies — and Successes
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: How the Senate Fails to Protect Democracy, Saving Martin Luther King, Jr. and More
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And What We Can Learn from the Greats of Russian Literature
Read MoreQ&A: The Edge of Adulthood: Patricia McNair on Her New Story Collection, 'Responsible Adults'
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‘I am drawn to the beauty found in what makes us ache.’
Read MoreESSAY: End-of-Year Lists and the Curse of the Too-Long Book
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I love short books, but . . . very few of them have been showing up on any of the 2020 lists I’ve seen
Read MoreQ and A: Joe Drape on His New Book About a Campaign to Recognize an American Saint
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War Hero Father Emil Kapaun of Kansas Was an Extraordinary ‘Ordinary Man’
Read MoreQ AND A: Talking with Susan Minot About Why She Writes -- and Her New Story Collection
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‘You want to convey what it’s like to be alive, or to articulate how mysteriously disturbing life can be.’
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Making of an American Saint, Key West in the Civil War, and More
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And a Fascinating Look at the Early Days of Animation
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Obsession with White Racial Purity, Escaped Slaves, and More
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And a Biography of Henry Adams, ‘The Last American Aristocrat’
Read MoreAPPRECIATION: A Book that Asks Tough Questions About Race and U.S. Democracy
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In these Troubling Times, Once-Fringe Racism Has Become Mainstream
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Barack Obama, an Ebola Book in the Age of COVID, and More
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And a Charming Novel of a Shtetl that Miraculously Escaped the Holocaust
Read MoreQ & A: Lee Conell Talks About Her New Novel, Set in a Manhattan Co-Op Building
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‘The Party Upstairs’ is Told from the Perspective of the Super’s Daughter
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: How to Reunite America, Solving an Old Murder at Harvard, and More
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And a Survey of Strongmen, From Mussolini to Trump
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Best Presidential Writing, a Biography of Edward Kennedy, and More
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And a Sublime Collection of Stories by Shirley Hazzard
Read MoreESSAY: Can We Save American Theater by Reviving a Bold Idea from the 1930s?
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The Federal Theatre Project Put Dramatic Artists to Work — and We Could Do it Again
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: A New Yorker Writer's Biden Biography, Dolly Parton, and More
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And a Riveting Tale of Native Americans Standing Up to White Encroachment
Read MoreREVIEW: A New Biography of 'Smokin' Joe' Frazier, a Champ with the Common Touch
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Fighting Against Frazier, One Ring Veteran Says, was Like ‘Getting Hit by Four Hands’
Read MoreNEWS: Bill Gates Just Announced that He's Written a Book on Climate Change
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The Book Will ‘Propose a Plan for What We Need to do over the Next Decade and Beyond"‘
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: The Life of Malcolm X, an Audiobook About Anthony Fauci, and More
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And Breaking through the Myths Around the Life of Sylvia Plath
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