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Shirley Lord, Beauty Editor, Novelist and Society Fixture, Dies at 93

An early champion of the mind-body connection, she held influential positions at Vogue, wrote steamy novels and regularly appeared in the tabloids.

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Shirley Lord, Beauty Editor, Novelist and Society Fixture, Dies at 93

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Test Your Knowledge of History’s Most Famous Libraries

Try this short quiz on five of the globe’s renowned repositories of human learning.

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Test Your Knowledge of History’s Most Famous Libraries

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Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded

The Library Company of Philadelphia, created in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, has received a gift of 1,500 volumes about sexuality dating back to the 17th century.

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Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded

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Book Review: ‘The Housewives Underground,’ by Kaitlyn Tiffany

In “The Housewives Underground,” the Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany salutes a loose network of skeptics who questioned the findings of the Warren Report.

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Book Review: ‘The Housewives Underground,’ by Kaitlyn Tiffany

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Book Review: “Nebraska,” by Monica Datta

Monica Datta’s “Nebraska” is a maximalist, continent-spanning story of a mother killing her youngest child, as relayed by a highly idiosyncratic psychoanalyst.

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Book Review: “Nebraska,” by Monica Datta

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Book Review: ‘The Emergency Playbook,’ by Amy Edelman and Chris Begley

“The Emergency Playbook” is a disaster preparation guide that emphasizes community rather than lone-hero fantasies.

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Book Review: ‘The Emergency Playbook,’ by Amy Edelman and Chris Begley