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Owen Freeman Female Spies and Their Secrets
An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.
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Daan Brand / Bransch Eat Food. All the Time. Mostly Junk.
How the “food revolution” turned us into snackers, guaranteeing the demise of healthy home cooking
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Patrick Leger The Lost Art of Deadline Writing
A new anthology of sportswriting celebrates the poetry written in the press box.
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Flip Schulke Archives / Mirrorpix / Arsh Raziuddin ... Art After Sexual Assault
Siri Hustvedt’s new novel explores fiction’s role in feminist consciousness-raising.
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Riverhead A Gilded Cage
A daughter explores the dark secrets of a family legacy.
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Jules Julien The Problem With High-Minded Politics
John Adams and John Quincy Adams’s virtuous disdain for partisanship was at the root of their failures.
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Katherine Lam The Death of the Pioneer Myth
A remarkable novel, Lost Children Archive, and a work of history, The End of the Myth, reckon with a walled border.
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Julien Pacaud Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.
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Simon & Schuster Brain Surgery, Up Close
Watching a neurosurgeon at work is awe- and cringe-inducing.
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Arsh Raziuddin The ‘Female Byron’
The celebrity poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon mesmerized a 19th-century public with hints of dark secrets.
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Viking What Medical School Doesn’t Teach About Death
A palliative-care doctor learns the language of suffering and the limits of medical control.
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Denise Nestor John Roberts’s Biggest Test Is Yet to Come
The chief justice writes fiercely conservative opinions, yet champions the Court’s political independence. How will he respond to a constitutional crisis?
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Christian Northeast The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government
What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us
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Najeebah Al-Ghadban Hollywood’s Secret History of Sexuality
David Thomson’s fascinating, and frustrating, tour of gay subversion and female oppression in American movies
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Antoine Maillard A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males.
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Jack Mitchell / Getty Wes Anderson Is Under Edward Gorey’s Spell
He was a writer-artist ahead of his time, but Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket, and American culture have finally caught up.
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Bijou Karman The Irony of Modern Feminism’s Obsession With Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A new biography squares the decorous legal figure with the feminist gladiator.
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Hanna Barczyk Sam Lipsyte’s Lame Send-up of a Guru and His Acolytes
In Hark, the characters are distracted, and their author veers between satire and sincerity.
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FSG Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers
Chris Power’s debut collection, Mothers, reveals that maternity is an unsettling journey.
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Ian Wright; photo by David Harrison; courtesy of ... The Haunting Last Letters of Sylvia Plath
As tragedy approaches, she is stricken, broken—and at the height of her artistic powers.
