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• Book Club: Read ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ With the Book Review
  July 2, 2024 by MJ Franklin
  In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder.
• Book Review: ‘The God of the Woods,’ by Liz Moore
  July 2, 2024 by Kate Tuttle
  In Liz Moore’s new novel, “The God of the Woods,” a pair of missing siblings spark a reckoning on the banks of an Adirondack lake.
• Book Review: ‘Ask Not,’ by Maureen Callahan
  July 2, 2024 by Louis Bayard
  Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.
• Book Review: ‘The Cliffs,’ by J. Courtney Sullivan
  July 1, 2024 by Alice Elliott Dark
  J. Courtney Sullivan’s “The Cliffs” is a haunted house mystery steeped in historical context.
• Shay Youngblood, Influential Black Author and Playwright, Dies at 64
  July 1, 2024 by Penelope Green
  She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.
• Ismail Kadare’s Best Books: A Guide
  July 1, 2024 by Amelia Nierenberg
  Kadare received the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005. In his books, the prolific Albanian author offered a window into the psychology of oppression. Here’s where to start.
• Ismail Kadare Dies at 88; Novels Brought Albania’s Plight to the World
  July 1, 2024 by Rusha Haljuci
  Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his totalitarian state.
• Book Review: ‘Concerning the Future of Souls,’ by Joy Williams
  July 1, 2024 by Dwight Garner
  Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your soul.
• 5 Places to Visit in Baltimore, Maryland, With John Waters
  July 1, 2024 by Megan McCrea
  The writer and director, famous for making theatergoers squirm in their seats, says he feels most at home wherever the outsiders gather in his native city.
• Book Review: ‘Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan,’ by Nile Green
  July 1, 2024 by Robyn Creswell
  Ikbal and Idries Shah delighted London society with their romantic tales of the East. The only problem? They made them up.
• Why Are We So Frightened by Fiction?
  July 1, 2024 by Lyta Gold
  Nearly 2,400 years ago, Plato worried that stories could corrupt susceptible minds. Moral panics over fiction have been common ever since.
• Book Review: ‘Madoff: The Final Word,’ by Richard Behar
  June 30, 2024 by Alexandra Jacobs
  The journalist Richard Behar communicated extensively with the disgraced financier. His rigorous if irreverent book acknowledges his subject’s humanity.
• 4 Great Fictional Detectives
  June 30, 2024 by Sarah Weinman
  The books in this month’s column have something in common: unforgettable main characters.
• 2 Books to Make You Love Karaoke, or at Least Respect It
  June 29, 2024
  In a memoir and a novel, the characters deal with grief by singing in front of strangers.
• Book Review: ‘Pink Slime,’ by Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary
  June 29, 2024 by Lydia Millet
  In Fernanda Trías’s novel “Pink Slime,” one woman holds out in her town after an environmental disaster, trapped in a limbo of indecision.
• Book Review: ‘All the Worst Humans,’ by Phil Elwood
  June 29, 2024 by Jim Windolf
  In “All the Worst Humans,” Phil Elwood recounts a career spent engineering headlines for some of the world’s villains.
• The History of Synchronized Swimming Is More Than Esther Williams
  June 29, 2024 by Jennifer Schuessler
  In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water.
• Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Headshot,’ by Rita Bullwinkel
  June 28, 2024
  Bullwinkel’s debut novel sheds light on the culture of youth women’s boxing through an ensemble cast of complicated characters. It packs a punch.
• 16 New Books Coming in July
  June 28, 2024
  New novels from J. Courtney Sullivan and Liz Moore, a memoir by a “hacktivist” member of Anonymous — and more.
• Book Review: New Horror Books
  June 28, 2024 by Gabino Iglesias
  Our columnist reviews June’s horror releases.

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