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With My Father’s Alzheimer’s Progressing, I Learned to See Beyond the Loss

Making a book of my dad’s train photos shifted my gaze away from all that he was losing.

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NYT Books and Literature

With My Father’s Alzheimer’s Progressing, I Learned to See Beyond the Loss

NYT Books and Literature

A Trove of Truman Capote’s Possessions Is Up for Auction

Four decades after his death, a revealing trove of the author’s possessions is up for auction.

7 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

A Trove of Truman Capote’s Possessions Is Up for Auction

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Book Review: ‘Brother of the More Famous Jack,’ by Barbara Trapido

Her 1982 novel “Brother of the More Famous Jack” is a pocket classic about a young woman who falls in with a raucous family.

14 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Brother of the More Famous Jack,’ by Barbara Trapido

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Book Review: ‘The Best Kind of American,’ by Kim Ghattas

In “The Best Kind of American,” Kim Ghattas shows what an American’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago reveals about chaos in the Middle East.

14 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Best Kind of American,’ by Kim Ghattas

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Book Review: ‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen,’ by Julie Orringer

In Julie Orringer’s novel “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” a husband discovers his ailing wife’s secret, steamy manuscript — and co-opts it as his own.

14 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen,’ by Julie Orringer

NYT Books and Literature

John Berger Is Back in Focus Thanks to Reissues, New Biography

A new biography and a flurry of reissues underline how the prolific author of “Ways of Seeing” continues to be read and embraced.

14 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

John Berger Is Back in Focus Thanks to Reissues, New Biography