Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
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The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
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In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
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New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.
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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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Can You Recognize This Novel From a One-Line Description?
Try this short quiz to see how many books you can identify based on an extremely brief plot summary.
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Neil Gaiman Has a Hero Out of Step in a Book Out of Time
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.
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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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Best-Seller Lists: May 19, 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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Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try.
By Elisa Gabbert
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
News stories have chronicled the basketball star’s detention in a Russian prison. Here’s her version.
By Sarah Lyall
Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in “Long Island,” Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his much-admired novel.
By A.O. Scott
Inspired by her grandmother, Eve J. Chung’s lively novel, “Daughters of Shandong,” traces a harrowing journey across 1950s Communist China.
By Alexander Chee
Americans like their politicians to be dog people. Gov. Noem broke the mold.
By A.O. Scott
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
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