The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s standout fiction and nonfiction.
Tag: Books and Literature
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The Search for Beauty in a Prison Cell
Prison, particularly for Black Americans, gets reduced to simple caricatures of violence and suffering. Inside the confines of a jail cell, through a book, I discovered salvation.
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How Ralph Ellison’s World Became Visible
Before he became a writer, Ralph Ellison was an emerging photographer. Rarely-seen documentary images, gathered in a forthcoming book, reveal his lifelong engagement with the camera.
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Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein
The Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor talk about their book ‘She Said,’ and Neal Gabler discusses the first volume of his Ted Kennedy biography.
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Thankful for Libraries
It was in these quiet spaces that I found myself, not only physically but spiritually.