There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

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A British police officer was killed, and 10 demonstrators were wounded. In “My Friends,” a Libyan man named Khaled who was present at that fateful moment describes how he came to spend his adult life ...

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November 26, 2024 —The New York Public Library announced today its Best Books of 2024, a curated list of more than 200 recommended titles published this year for children, teens, and adults.

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The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as ...