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In Brief

The Fault in Our Stars

Two teens stare down death, unafraid to laugh.

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A Reading Life

At Last

The final volume in the author's celebrated Patrick Melrose cycle faces pain with wit and unflinching honesty.

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Reviews & Essays

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

An award-winning reporter's "uncompromising and important" new look at daily life in a Mumbai slum.

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Reviews & Essays

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Eight new stories from an emerging master of the form seek "the narrow strait between hilarity and heartwreck."

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Library Without Walls

"We Revel in a Crowd of Any Kind": Dickens the Journalist

The great novelist, in love with the life of the streets.

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In Brief

If Grief Could Wait

A Swedish ensemble brings together Henry Purcell, Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen

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Interview

"The Shock of his Bad Behavior": Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens

The author of Charles Dickens: A Life on what happens "when you live with Dickens for years."

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Reading Romance

The Peacock's Partner

Tales of love between plain Janes and their beautiful beaus.

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In Brief

Why We Broke Up

An odd couple falls in, then out of, love.

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Drawn to Read

Quiet

A new book sheds fresh light on the much-maligned "introvert".

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Kind Reader

Getting a Grip

When life becomes frighteningly unrecognizable, is it better to cling to the familiar -- or let go?

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Reviews & Essays

The Last Holiday: A Memoir

An unclassifiable musician on a life spent transmuting suffering into music.

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Reviews & Essays

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

A wannabe-fashionista becomes a victim of national-security paranoia in this darkly comic novel.

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Reviews & Essays

Spring: A Novel

"Insecurity and uncertainty rule the day" in this portrait of a love affair.

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Reviews & Essays

Carrying Costs

Two new books grapple with teen pregnancy, practicality, and prejudice.

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