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Our Insatiable Appetite for Stories About Cannibalism

Why do the characters in so many new novels insist upon eating each other?

7 hours ago

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Our Insatiable Appetite for Stories About Cannibalism

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Inside the Nantucket Home of Best-Selling Author Elin Hilderbrand

Inside the home where the best-selling author has written many of her books — and is secretly working on a new novel.

13 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Inside the Nantucket Home of Best-Selling Author Elin Hilderbrand

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Book Review: ‘Fixer Chao,’ by Han Ong

Han Ong’s barbed, irreverent portrait of identity, class envy and flimflam deception in turn-of-the-21st-century Manhattan still resonates.

18 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Fixer Chao,’ by Han Ong

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Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire

Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.

22 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire

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Dinaw Mengestu Resigns as PEN America President After Israel Article

The novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who was elected seven months ago, said the article “continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others.”

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NYT Books and Literature

Dinaw Mengestu Resigns as PEN America President After Israel Article

NYT Books and Literature

Hershel Parker, Melville Scholar of Ahab-Like Obsessiveness, Dies at 90

The author of an exhaustive two-volume biography, he was “fanatical about his approach to scholarship and infatuated with Melville,” a colleague said.

1 day ago

NYT Books and Literature

Hershel Parker, Melville Scholar of Ahab-Like Obsessiveness, Dies at 90