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Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry. By Alexandra Alter His first ...

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Lizzie has her first boyfriend, named Ronnie, who is the local neighborhood paper boy. Lizzie is completely head-over-toenails in love with him, and Miranda and Gordo are fed up listening to Lizzie ...

This places the book only behind Obama's memoir, "A Promised Land" in debut weekly sales, according to the Associated Press. Part one of Obama's memoir sold 816,000 copies in its first week when ...

We’ve spent the year reading nonstop—dog-earing pages, underlining passages, and tearing through the towering stacks on our nightstands—to find the books that truly blow us away. We all loved Oprah’s ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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In her new book, Cho Nam-Joo captures both the universality of sexism and the specificity of women’s experiences. When I was young and adrift, Thomas Mann’s novel gave me a sense of purpose.

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