Why Kristi Noem Is in the Doghouse
Americans like their politicians to be dog people. Gov. Noem broke the mold.
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Americans like their politicians to be dog people. Gov. Noem broke the mold.
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Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.
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News stories have chronicled the basketball star’s detention in a Russian prison. Here’s her version.
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Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in “Long Island,” Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his much-admired novel.
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New novels from R.O. Kwon, Kevin Kwan and Miranda July; a reappraisal of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy; memoirs from Brittney Griner and Kathleen Hanna — and more.
Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book
Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.
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17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring
Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.
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27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring
Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.
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Best-Seller Lists: May 12, 2024
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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A Portrait of the Art World Elite, Painted With a Heavy Hand
Hari Kunzru examines the ties between art and wealth in a new novel, “Blue Ruin.”
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Does a Small Cough Make You Think the Worst? Here’s a Book for You.
Caroline Crampton shares her own worries in “A Body Made of Glass,” a history of hypochondria that wonders whether newfangled technology drives us crazier.
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She Wrote ‘The History of White People.’ She Has a Lot More to Say.
“I Just Keep Talking,” a collection of essays and artwork by the historian Nell Irvin Painter, captures her wide-ranging interests and original mind.
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Young, Cool, Coddled and Raised on the Internet
The best stories in Honor Levy’s “My First Book” capture the quiet desperation of today’s smart set. But there is such a thing as publishing too soon.
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Inside MAGA’s Plan to Take Over America
“Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.
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Born in England and raised Jewish, she became agnostic, writing books about her own lack of faith, the prophet Muhammad and her time as a car columnist.
By Penelope Green
The Oscar-winning actor will star as an A.I.-curious author in “McNeal,” starting performances in September at Lincoln Center Theater.
By Michael Paulson
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a godlike hero from a world more like ours.
By Sam Thielman
Inspired by her grandmother, Eve J. Chung’s lively novel, “Daughters of Shandong,” traces a harrowing journey across 1950s Communist China.
By Alexander Chee
Try this short quiz to see how many books you can identify based on an extremely brief plot summary.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Montreal is a city as appealing for its beauty as for its shadows. Here, the novelist Mona Awad recommends books that are “both dreamy and uncompromising.”
By Mona Awad
In Alexis Landau’s ambitious new novel, “The Mother of All Things,” the frustrations of modern parenting echo through the ages.
By Eliza Minot
Michael Deagler’s first novel follows a young man who is piecing his life back together and trying very hard not to drink.
By Charlie Lee
The sociologist Sarah Thornton visits strip clubs, milk banks and cosmetic surgeons with the goal of shoring up appreciation for women’s breasts.
By Lucinda Rosenfeld
His anthology “Technicians of the Sacred” included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave.
By Clay Risen
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