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A young man with an ear for poetry joins a community of literary misfits in Bonnie Garmus’s comic novel.

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Paul Theroux is 85. And in the opening line of his latest book—his 54th—he makes a distressing revelation. Distressing, that ...

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In the duo’s “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,” the world’s most famous blood-sucker is re-envisioned as a preening, ...

"La flor" director Mariano Llinás veteran with a sprawling and self-reflexive picaresque that is fascinating but frequently dull, for better or worse. It’s often said that calling a movie “boring” is ...

Like many Millennial men, I used to be pretty invested in Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West—primarily because of his music, but also because of his unique position as the one celebrity who ...

The human brain has a method for dealing with the intrinsic fear of death. Terror-management theory, which builds on the work of the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, explains that the psyche ...

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Back in January, I had a feeling 2026 was going to be a special year for books, and here at the onset of autumn, my optimism has been rewarded. After a spring filled with highlights by Louise Erdrich, ...

Venus Morris Griffin's book "The Other Side of Perfect" came out recently.