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Your Monday Briefing
A special edition looking back at 2022.
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Books
Read Your Way Through Edinburgh
Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them to curl up with a book. Maggie O’Farrell, the author of “Hamnet,” suggests reading that best reflects her city.
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9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Reading Erotica Anywhere and Everywhere
Almost everything was as usual at the Sbarro in Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan on Saturday night — the rumble of the 1 train could be heard and the aroma of greasy pizza was thick in the air. But something out of the ordinary was taking place at ...
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What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?
It’s quaint to read how common it was in the late 1920s, when sound had just come to the movies, to assume it was just a fad. More than a few people thought films had been better without sound — that actors had been more expressive, that sound was ...
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An Iconic Album, and Gender Identity Today
More from our inbox: Memo to Writers: Write. Read Aloud. Edit. Repeat.How Disability Shapes PerspectiveWorld Cup Fans Don’t Speak for All ArabsMarlo Thomas in “Free to Be … You and Me.”Credit...ViacomTo the Editor: Re “Free to Be You and Me. Or Not ...
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The Best Crime Novels of 2022
Our columnist, who’s read dozens of books this year, selects her favorites.
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‘The Writing Is as Good as the Food’: Prue Leith’s Favorite Cookbooks
What books are on your night stand? I’ve recently been forced to cull a few because I couldn’t see over the pile and there was no room for the mandatory mug of tea. So I’ve finally aborted my attempts to read “Ulysses” (I bought a crib for it and ...
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Douglas Brinkley Would Like to Invite Thoreau to Dinner
What books are on your night stand? Two of Cesar Chavez’s favorites: “Loaves and Fishes,” by Dorothy Day, and “Faith and Violence,” by Thomas ...
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How Reading — Not Scanning, Not Scrolling — Opens Your Mind
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Every day, we consume a mind-boggling amount of information. We scan online news articles, sift through text ...