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Submit Your Summer Reading Bucket List

Tell us what you read this summer, and enter the drawing for this year’s prize.

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Submit Your Summer Reading Bucket List

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Book Review: ‘Dekonstructing the Kardashians,’ by MJ Corey

In “Dekonstructing the Kardashians,” MJ Corey takes America’s most famous TV clan seriously.

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Book Review: ‘Dekonstructing the Kardashians,’ by MJ Corey

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New Picture Book Biographies of Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage

As these biographies show, Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage all used silence to great effect.

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New Picture Book Biographies of Marcel Marceau, Pablo Casals and John Cage

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Book Review: ‘The Land and Its People,’ by David Sedaris

In David Sedaris’s wry new collection, being alive is as weird, atrocious, contradictory, unfair and funny as ever.

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Book Review: ‘The Land and Its People,’ by David Sedaris

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Mac Barnett Faces Blowback for His Criticism of Children’s Books

The national ambassador for young people’s literature published a manifesto aimed at adults. Then came the blowback.

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Mac Barnett Faces Blowback for His Criticism of Children’s Books

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Books Our Editors Loved This Week

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Books Our Editors Loved This Week