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Review: A Dancing Oscar Wilde, in Love but Drained of Wit

Christopher Wheeldon’s “Oscar,” performed by the Australian Ballet, is constructed with skill but is disappointingly timid.

5 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Review: A Dancing Oscar Wilde, in Love but Drained of Wit

NYT Books and Literature

Great Horror Novels for Young Readers

The two-time Newbery medalist Erin Entrada Kelly recommends 10 books whose mingling of fear and suspense has tantalized her.

8 hours ago

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Great Horror Novels for Young Readers

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Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Everything We Believe About Education

After almost a decade away, the author of “Pachinko” is back with her latest tale about the Korean diaspora, “American Hagwon.”

14 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Min Jin Lee Wants Us to Rethink Everything We Believe About Education

NYT Books and Literature

Eli McCann Talks About ‘Stitched,’ His Best-Selling Novel About Quilting

Eli McCann had a surprise hit with his debut novel, “Stitched.” He talks about how he came to write the book and what its success has meant.

14 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Eli McCann Talks About ‘Stitched,’ His Best-Selling Novel About Quilting

NYT Books and Literature

How Reading “East of Eden” Affected Writers and Artists

With a Netflix adaptation now streaming, Rachel Kushner, Héctor Tobar, Zoe Kazan and others share why Steinbeck’s operatic family saga has stayed with them.

14 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

How Reading “East of Eden” Affected Writers and Artists

NYT Books and Literature

‘Lincoln in the Bardo’: A Preview of the Met Opera Adaptation

In an ethereal costume and surrounded by puppets, Anthony Roth Costanzo sang an aria from the operatic adaptation of George Saunders’s 2017 novel.

14 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

‘Lincoln in the Bardo’: A Preview of the Met Opera Adaptation