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What the Reporter Who Broke the Jeffrey Epstein Story Had in Common With His Victims

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God Help Me, I Savored Every Word of Michael Wolff’s Trashy Book on Trump’s Final Year

Laura Miller

July 14, 2021 1:39 PM

Dana Spiotta Salvages the Midlife Crisis Novel

Laura Miller

July 13, 2021 5:45 AM

Inside the Conservative Book Publishing World

Laura Miller

July 12, 2021 5:45 AM

The Curious Case of “Herlock Sholmès”

Matthew Dessem

June 11, 2021 5:40 AM

Those Descriptions on the Inside of Book Covers Are Full of It

Eric Farwell

June 09, 2021 10:01 AM

Bogus Social Media Outrage Is Making Authors Change Lines in Their Books Now

Laura Miller

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What if Dating Apps Aren’t Just Awkward—but Violent?

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Edward St. Aubyn Searches for Life After Patrick Melrose

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John Steinbeck Wrote a Novel About Werewolves, But You Can’t Read It

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May 22, 2021 8:49 PM

The One Crucial Lesson Today’s Activists Need to Learn From ACT UP

J. Bryan Lowder, Christina Cauterucci, and Rumaan Alam

May 21, 2021 5:29 PM

In His Beautiful New Novel, Francis Spufford Gives Five Ordinary Londoners a Second Chance at Life

Laura Miller

May 18, 2021 2:47 PM

One Book Nearly Swept This Year’s Awards. Why Didn’t Publishers Want It?

Nadia Owusu

May 17, 2021 5:55 AM

What Makes Billie Eilish’s New Book Different From the Typical Celebrity Memoir

Allegra Frank

May 15, 2021 5:45 AM

How Modernist Lesbians Made Paris the “Sapphic Center of the Western World”

Rumaan Alam, Christina Cauterucci, and J. Bryan Lowder

April 23, 2021 12:00 PM

Louis Menand’s New Book Revisits Familiar Subjects. It’s Still Revelatory.

Jack Hamilton

April 23, 2021 9:00 AM

How Far Is Too Far for a Memoir About Losing One’s Mother?

Shasha Léonard

April 21, 2021 5:50 AM

Slave Traders Knew Exactly What They Were Doing

Rebecca Onion

April 19, 2021 5:45 AM

A Masterfully Damning Portrait of the Billionaire Family Behind the OxyContin Epidemic

Laura Miller

April 15, 2021 5:45 AM

How Much Do We Still Owe to Ernest Hemingway?

Laura Miller

April 05, 2021 5:55 AM

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