THE DEADLINE: Essays, by Jill Lepore In 1636, at the height of the Dutch economic…
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Isabel Crook, a China-born daughter of Canadian missionaries who became one of her adopted country’s…
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Remembering Robert McCloskey’s Books, Like ‘Blueberries for Sal,’ in a Maine Library
It was a beach day, by Maine standards — slightly overcast and moderately balmy, with…
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In 2021, along a two-lane highway in Mandan, N.D., a giant billboard showing masked figures…
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THE BOOK FROM FAR AWAY, by Bruce Handy. Illustrated by Julie Benbassat. (Minerva, $18.99, ages…
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Deciding what audiobook to listen to requires its own special calculus, related to but distinct…
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Review: ‘Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz,’ by Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi
FUNNY THINGS: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz, written by Luca Debus and…
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Narratives about prodigal children generally have reconciliation as their goal; this typically involves repentance followed…
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Art is long, life is short and starlings are immeasurable. It is a sensible thing…
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The essays in this series hold that American literature is imprinted by belief: freighted by…
