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The Hero of This Novel Is 14. His Married Girlfriend Is 36.
Adam Ross’s “Playworld” is about a child actor and the real-world dramas that engulf his adolescence.
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The Plagiarism Plot Is Having a Moment. Copy That.
You could assemble an entire library of contemporary work fixated on literary imitation, appropriation and theft.
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How America’s ‘Senior Citizens’ Became ‘Older People’
A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse.
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CreditBianca De Marchi/EPA, via Shutterstock Pico Iyer Made His Name Traveling. Now He Explores Inner Landscapes.
His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote.
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Jon Klassen on the Art of the Board Book
Your imaginary audience has a note taped to them: “I can’t read. I can’t talk. I don’t care about stories, plots or characters. What do you have for me?”
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CreditTaro Gomi EssayEncyclopedia Brown Got Alafair Burke Started on Crime Fiction
The author of “The Note” traces her “real obsession” to discovering “a slew of smart, gritty female sleuths who began to feel like friends.”
CreditRebecca Clarke By the BookThe staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.
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CreditKaran Singh Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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A new biography of Goethe approaches its subject through his masterpiece and life’s work, the verse drama “Faust.”
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CreditStädel Museum Percival Everett’s Prose Is Having a Moment. How Is His Poetry?
The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look.
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CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times It’s Hard to Be the Brother of a Genius Who Died Young
In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a sympathetic portrait of the lyricist, overshadowed in a life that had him tending the legacy of his younger sibling George.
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CreditBettmann, via Getty Images Our Book Critics on Their Year in Reading
Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.”
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CreditKaran Singh A Comedian’s Path From Small-Town Tennessee to Breakout Fame
Leanne Morgan went from helping her husband sell mobile homes to sudden success in her 50s.
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How to Start and Keep a Journal
Tips from writers, artists and a social worker that might make the practice less daunting.
By Sarah Durn
Where in the World Do These Popular Detectives Solve Crimes?
Try this short quiz on investigators and inspectors cracking their cases around the globe.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Anita Desai Has Put Down Roots, but Her Work Ranges Widely
Her new novella, “Rosarita,” takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, “I feel utterly at home there.”
By Anderson Tepper
FictionAn Overdose Sends a Widower Hunting for His Wife’s Lost Descendants
The new novel by Bernhard Schlink, the author of “The Reader,” explores the legacies of World War II and reunification in contemporary Germany.
By Randy Boyagoda
Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85
He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.
By William Robin
2 Books About the Moneyed Class
A novel of British nobility; a memoir of American aristocracy.
FictionA Student’s Mystery: How Did This Enigmatic Author Shape Her Family?
In “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus,” a college student balances her new independence while investigating the demise of her parents’ marriage.
By Eleanor Dunn
Marie Winn, Who Wrote of a Famous Central Park Hawk, Dies at 88
She chronicled the melodrama of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who became an avian sensation as it took up residence atop a Manhattan apartment building.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Fable, a Book App, Makes Changes After Offensive A.I. Messages
The company introduced safeguards after readers flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries.
By Christine Hauser
David Lodge, British Novelist Who Satirized Academic Life, Dies at 89
His 15 well-plotted novels teemed with romance and strange coincidence. An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books.
By John Cotter
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