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  1. Our books of the year

    Dec 3, 2020 ... Most writers lose their energy and inventiveness as they grow old. Not the 82-year-old Kenyan author of this fresh and magical novel. Written in galloping blank verse, it tells of the very first Kikuy

  2. Our books of the year

    Dec 7, 2019 ... A fine history of racism, poverty and memory in the Mississippi Delta told through the lynching of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago whose murder in 1955—and his mother’s determination to

  3. The best novels of the year so far

    Mar 18, 2025 ... Anthony Fennell, a journalist in search of a story, travels to South Africa to accompany a crew that repairs cables at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. He endures seasickness and tension with the shi

  4. Barnes & Noble, a bookstore, is back in the business of selling books

    Mar 27, 2025 ... CENTRAL PARK bisects upper Manhattan, creating two neighbourhoods and, apparently, two reading cultures. On the Upper West Side, the New York Times is “a standout for us” in terms of driving book purc

  5. How a year of tremor and terror transformed Japan

    Mar 27, 2025 ... Suspicion of marginal religious sects resurfaced in 2022 after Yamagami Tetsuya assassinated a former prime minister, Abe Shinzo, citing grievances against the Unification Church (also known as “the M

  6. How not to handle a corporate kiss-and-tell book

    Mar 25, 2025 ... Meta describes the book as “a mix of out-of-date and previously reported claims about the company and false accusations about our executives”. It is following the script of other companies unsuccessfu

  7. Best of the year

    Jan 1, 2025 ... Our annual guides to the finest cultural treats

  8. What to watch this weekend

    Mar 21, 2025 ... “The Residence” (Netflix)How do you up the ante on a locked-room mystery? You set it across multiple floors in the White House; and you also set it during a state dinner, so that 157 people, guests an

  9. A new novel is published amid a boom in dystopian fiction

    Mar 10, 2025 ... For more on the latest books, films, TV shows, albums and controversies, sign up to Plot Twist, our weekly subscriber-only newsletter

  10. The secret life of the first millennial saint

    Mar 28, 2025 ... On a bright day in late March, I turned off a winding road outside Assisi and rang the bell of the Acutis family home. An image of Carlo was mounted on one of the gateposts. The automatic gates opened