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Putin Is Coming for Russian Literature

The Kremlin is redefining what it means to be a writer in Russia.

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Putin Is Coming for Russian Literature

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Completing Our Summer Reading Bucket List

The New York Times Books team put together a Summer Reading Bucket List to help you get out of your literary comfort zone. As summer approaches its end, our team reflects on how they achieved their summer reading goals.

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NYT Books and Literature

Completing Our Summer Reading Bucket List

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Jon Ronson

The journalist Jon Ronson finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man’s baronial fantasia and others like him who are living unmoored from reality.

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Book Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Jon Ronson

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He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen.

Francis Fukuyama’s famous take on the post-Cold War world was widely misunderstood. In a new memoir, he tries to set the record straight.

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He Warned That the End of History Could Be Rough. Maybe Now People Will Listen.

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Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

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Book Review: ‘The Disappearers,’ by Marlon James