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Book Review: ‘Call Me Ishmaelle,’ by Xiaolu Guo

“Call Me Ishmaelle,” by Xiaolu Guo, audaciously revises Herman Melville’s American classic.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Call Me Ishmaelle,’ by Xiaolu Guo

NYT Books and Literature

Dramas Keep Showing Us Hapless Men — and Hypercompetent Women

Several of the past year’s films center on confused, bumbling protagonists — surrounded by women who are anything but.

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NYT Books and Literature

Dramas Keep Showing Us Hapless Men — and Hypercompetent Women

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes,’ by Tatiana Tibuleac

A complicated mother-son relationship reaches a turning point in this coming-of-age novel.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes,’ by Tatiana Tibuleac

NYT Books and Literature

How John Kennedy, a G.O.P. Senator, Became a Best-Selling Book Author

Senator John Kennedy, a garrulous rank-and-file Republican from Louisiana, has struck a nerve with a new book that provides an insider account of Congress and its dysfunction.

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NYT Books and Literature

How John Kennedy, a G.O.P. Senator, Became a Best-Selling Book Author

NYT Books and Literature

Adelaide Writers’ Week Canceled After It Disinvited Palestinian Australian Author

Organizers said her presence was not “culturally sensitive” after a mass shooting that targeted Jewish Australians. Nearly 200 other writers withdrew in protest.

23 hours ago

NYT Books and Literature

Adelaide Writers’ Week Canceled After It Disinvited Palestinian Australian Author

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Lost Lambs,’ by Madeline Cash

A semi-estranged midlife couple and their three precocious daughters form the center of Madeline Cash’s satirical novel, “Lost Lambs.”

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘Lost Lambs,’ by Madeline Cash

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Erich von Däniken: Schweizer Autor Erich von Däniken ist tot

Mit 90 Jahren ist der bekannte Autor Erich von Däniken gestorben. Er machte sich mit Publikationen über außerirdisches Leben einen Namen.

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Zeit Literatur

Erich von Däniken: Schweizer Autor Erich von Däniken ist tot

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