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NYT Books and Literature

Three New Books Apply Economic Logic to Some of Life’s Messiest Problems

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself.

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NYT Books and Literature

Three New Books Apply Economic Logic to Some of Life’s Messiest Problems

NYT Books and Literature

From 1966: Anna Akhmatova, Leading Soviet Poet, Is Dead

She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.

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NYT Books and Literature

From 1966: Anna Akhmatova, Leading Soviet Poet, Is Dead

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘So Old, So Young,’ by Grant Ginder

The milestones of an undergrad friend group give shape and color to Grant Ginder’s latest novel, “So Old, So Young.”

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘So Old, So Young,’ by Grant Ginder

NYT Books and Literature

Learning German from a 1970s Language Book

How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer.

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NYT Books and Literature

Learning German from a 1970s Language Book

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Why I Am Not an Atheist,’ by Christopher Beha

In “Why I Am Not an Atheist,” Christopher Beha makes the case for faith.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Why I Am Not an Atheist,’ by Christopher Beha

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Rebel English Academy,’ by Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanif’s “Rebel English Academy” follows three characters in the politically fraught Pakistan of the late 1970s.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Rebel English Academy,’ by Mohammed Hanif

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