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Houdini Died on Halloween 100 Years Ago. Some Still Question How.

A urologist’s inquiry into the magician’s final days is the latest effort to grapple with outstanding questions about his demise.

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Houdini Died on Halloween 100 Years Ago. Some Still Question How.

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Book Review: ‘I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex,’ by Lisa Hanawalt

The “Bojack Horseman” designer Lisa Hanawalt bridles at glib therapists and is hot to trot for Mister Rogers in her new graphic memoir.

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Book Review: ‘I Can’t Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex,’ by Lisa Hanawalt

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Book Review: ‘Needlemouth,’ by K-Ming Chang

K-Ming Chang’s “Needlemouth” blends body horror with feminist allegory in the story of three cousins grappling with their inherited trauma.

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Book Review: ‘Needlemouth,’ by K-Ming Chang

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Ellie Kemper: Nora Ephron Wrote to Amuse Herself

The actress and comedian riffs on the essay Nora Ephron wrote for The Times in 2008.

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Ellie Kemper: Nora Ephron Wrote to Amuse Herself

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Book Review: ‘Love and Death in the American Novel,’ by Leslie A. Fiedler

With its bracing studies of fiction’s secrets, this 66-year-old work of literary criticism still surprises and delights.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Love and Death in the American Novel,’ by Leslie A. Fiedler