Six Brothers With Schizophrenia Fascinated Researchers. A New Book Explores the Family’s Trauma.

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N.K. Jemisin’s New Novel Is Uncannily Relevant to a City Under Siege

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April 01, 2020 1:01 PM

A Wondrously Entertaining Novel About Chance, Fate, and Calamity

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March 24, 2020 1:28 PM

The U.S. Sides With Nazi Germany in The Plot Against America, a Fiction That’s Too Close to Home

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March 15, 2020 6:00 AM

The Fall of Thomas Cromwell Casts a Pall on The Mirror and the Light

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The Old-Fashioned Warmth of James McBride

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What Have Book Publishers Learned From the American Dirt Controversy?

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Jan 31, 2020 9:43 PM

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Jan 31, 2020 1:45 PM

A Dark, Witty Debut Novel About Being Famous Instead of Being Special

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Jan 29, 2020 11:38 AM

Minimalism Isn’t Just a Longing for Less Stuff. It’s a Longing for Less Self.

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Jan 20, 2020 5:45 AM

A Beautifully Observed Portrait of the Bottom Rungs of Silicon Valley

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Kiley Reid’s Sharp First Novel About Race, Careers, and Parenthood

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The Best Audiobooks of 2019

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Why Do We Yearn for On-Screen Adaptations of Books We Love?

The Authority: Exploring the Worlds of His Dark Materials Dec 23, 2019 10:00 PM

Young Adult Fiction Entered the Decade Like a Lion. Now It Seems to Be Eating Itself Alive.

Laura Miller

Dec 17, 2019 5:50 AM

Finally! It’s the Bear Fight on His Dark Materials!

The Authority: Exploring the Worlds of His Dark Materials Dec 16, 2019 10:00 PM

Why Has His Dark Materials Struggled to Show the Power of Daemons?

The Authority: Exploring the Worlds of His Dark Materials Dec 09, 2019 10:00 PM

The 10 Best Books of 2019, According to Slate’s Book Critic

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Dec 03, 2019 5:45 AM

How Does Lyra Know How to Read the Alethiometer?

The Authority: Exploring the Worlds of His Dark Materials Dec 02, 2019 10:00 PM

His Dark Materials’ Magisterium and Its Connections to the Real-World Catholic Church

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