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Gary Fisketjon Has Died. He Edited Ellis, Tartt, McInerney and McCarthy.

A champion of slow, methodical editing and long working relationships with writers, he was regarded as one of the best of his generation. He was 72.

5 hours ago

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Gary Fisketjon Has Died. He Edited Ellis, Tartt, McInerney and McCarthy.

NYT Books and Literature

M. John Harrison’s ‘The End of Everything’ Wins Booker Prize

M. John Harrison’s dystopian tale “The End of Everything” beat out higher profile books by Marlon James, Elizabeth Strout and Douglas Stuart.

8 hours ago

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M. John Harrison’s ‘The End of Everything’ Wins Booker Prize

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Book Review: ‘Department of Fate,’ by Rachel Maddow

In “Department of Fate,” the MS NOW pundit Rachel Maddow shows how federal prosecution turned into a political tool.

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Book Review: ‘Department of Fate,’ by Rachel Maddow

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Biden Says Health to Limit Book Promotion as Cancer ‘Slows Me Down’

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said his aggressive prostate cancer meant he “won’t be able to do as many conversations” to promote his forthcoming memoir as he had hoped.

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Biden Says Health to Limit Book Promotion as Cancer ‘Slows Me Down’

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Book Review: ‘The Telephone,’ by James Gleick

James Gleick’s latest book is an encyclopedic homage to the technology that dominated life, romantic and otherwise, in the last century.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Telephone,’ by James Gleick