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Book Review

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  1. Read Your Way Through New Orleans

    New Orleans is a thriving hub for festivals, music and Creole cuisine. Here, the novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares books that capture its many cultural influences.

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  2. 17 New Books Coming in June

    A biography of Joni Mitchell, two hotly anticipated horror novels, a behind-the-scenes exposé about Donald Trump’s years on “The Apprentice” and more.

     

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  3. The Book Review’s Best Books Since 2000

    Looking for your next great read? We’ve got 3,228. Explore the best fiction and nonfiction from 2000 - 2023 chosen by our editors.

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  4. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book

    Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.

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  5. Best-Seller Lists: June 16, 2024

    All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.

     

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  1. The Artist Is Present (and Pretentious) in Rachel Cusk’s Latest

    Her new novel, “Parade,” considers the perplexity and solipsism of the creative life.

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    The reason to come to Rachel Cusk’s novels has never been plot.
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  2. Growing Up With Joan Didion and Dominick Dunne, in the Land of Make-Believe

    In his memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club,” the Hollywood hyphenate Griffin Dunne, best known for his role in Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours,” recounts his privileged upbringing.

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  3. How America Turned Stories Into Weapons of War

    In a new book, the journalist and science fiction writer Annalee Newitz shows how we have used narrative to manipulate and coerce.

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    One of Wonder Woman’s earliest appearances in a comic book, in 1942. Her creator, William Moulton Marston, “wanted to empower women” and believed that “propaganda was a progressive force.”
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  4. They Revolutionized Shopping, With Tea Sandwiches on the Side

    In “When Women Ran Fifth Avenue,” Julie Satow celebrates the savvy leaders who made Bonwit, Bendel’s and Lord & Taylor into retail meccas of their moment.

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    Geraldine Stutz, one of the three department store executives at the heart of “When Women Ran Fifth Avenue,” sitting behind her desk at Henri Bendel in 1965.
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  5. The Brilliant Comic Who Shined Brightest Out of the Spotlight

    A new biography of the performer, writer and director Elaine May has the intensity to match its subject.

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    Elaine May, caricatured by Al Hirschfeld in 1967.
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