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World
What I’m Reading: Summer-Snobs Edition
Tales of status, those who have it and those who want it, are on my list.
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US
What to Know About California’s Reparations Efforts
A conversation with Kurtis Lee, a New York Times economics correspondent covering the state’s reparations task force.
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Books
Charles Frazier Wants You to Wait Before Reading the Classics
What books are on your night stand? “In the Café of Lost Youth,” by Patrick Modiano; “Sleepless Nights,”by Elizabeth Hardwick; “The Philosophy of Modern Song,”by Bob Dylan; “Poems of the Late T’ang,”translated by A.C. Graham. What’s the last great ...
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Books
Susanna Hoffs Has a Dollar Bill Signed by William S. Burroughs
What books are on your night stand? “Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius,” by Nick Hornby. “Lincoln in the Bardo,” by George Saunders. “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. “Giovanni’s Room,” by James Baldwin ...
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Newyork
For Easter, the Strangest Story Ever Told
In the not-so-distant past where 90 or 95 percent of Americans identified as Christian, it was hard for almost anyone in that vast majority to read the Christian gospels naïvely — to come to them without preconceptions, in the way of their original ...
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Newyork
Red State, Blue State. Tight State, Loose State.
Political biases are omnipresent, but what we don’t fully understand yet is how they come about in the first place. In 2014, Michele J. Gelfand, a professor of psychology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business formerly at the University of ...
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Books
The Lonely Librarian, the Color of Melancholy, and Tangerines
An editor recommends old and new books.
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Books
Mona Simpson’s Fiancé Promised to Read ‘Middlemarch.’ He Never Did. Now He’s Her Ex.
What books are on your night stand? On my night stand? They’re crowded out by 15 pairs of reading glasses! Behind a lidded cup of licorice tea, there’s a selection of Emily Dickinson poems, a spilled-on paperback “Selected Poems,” by Adam Zagajewski ...
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Books
Ari Shapiro Reads Cookbooks for Comfort and Pleasure
What books are on your night stand? The vast majority of my reading is for author interviews on “All Things Considered.” So as I write this in January, I’m chipping away at a pile of titles with February and March publication dates: “The Exceptions ...
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Books
Books for Valentine’s Day
An editor recommends old and new books.