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Do You Recognize These Snappy Lines From Popular Crime Novels?

Test your reading recollection with this short quiz.

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NYT Books and Literature

Do You Recognize These Snappy Lines From Popular Crime Novels?

NYT Books and Literature

He Created the Odeon. And Now He’s a Prizewinning Author.

Keith McNally won the Gotham Book Prize for his memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything.” It tells the story of his life in New York.

9 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

He Created the Odeon. And Now He’s a Prizewinning Author.

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Men Like Ours,’ by Bindu Bansinath

“Men Like Ours,” a novel by Bindu Bansinath, follows an immigrant family through a community crisis.

9 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Men Like Ours,’ by Bindu Bansinath

NYT Books and Literature

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir Said Something Taboo About Victimhood. We Didn’t Listen.

A book by the world’s most famous survivor of sexual violence has been read as a manifesto or a cry of pain. What she wrote is far more complicated.

9 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir Said Something Taboo About Victimhood. We Didn’t Listen.

NYT Books and Literature

Amitav Ghosh Brings the Main Character of ‘Ghost Eye’ to Life, With the Help of a Sketch Artist

With the help of a forensic artist, Amitav Ghosh puts a face to the name of Varsha Gupta, the central figure of his new novel, “Ghost Eye.”

9 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Amitav Ghosh Brings the Main Character of ‘Ghost Eye’ to Life, With the Help of a Sketch Artist

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘When the Forest Breathes,’ by Suzanne Simard

Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation.

9 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘When the Forest Breathes,’ by Suzanne Simard