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Cultures meet and meld deliciously in 3 new cookbooksWith these recipes, home cooks get to taste flavors from many cultures, often in the very same dish.
Five glorious art books bring the gallery to your couchFrom Japanese printmaker Hokusai to women pioneers of the arts and crafts movement, the images in these volumes offer light and joy to art lovers.
Neal Stephenson mixes polo, politics, and power in the novel ‘Polostan’A Russian American girl straddles the worlds of her Ukraine-born Bolshevik father and her Montana-raised cowgirl mother in the 1920s and ’30s in Neal Stephenson’s “Polostan.”
Curtis Chin grew up in a Chinese restaurant. He’s on a 300-city tour to save others.In cities across the United States, Chinatowns are struggling. American storyteller Curtis Chin, author of “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,” is on a mission to save these vibrant cultural enclaves.
How ‘History Alice’ is getting Gen Z to learn about the pastAlice Loxton doesn’t believe history should be boring or academic. As “History Alice,” she connects with millions of people on social media, and her second book, “Eighteen,” already reached No. 1 in the U.K.
Beyond ‘Green Gables’: A new look at Anne’s creatorWho was L.M. Montgomery, beyond the writer of a beloved literary character? On the 150th anniversary of the author’s birth, Prince Edward Island is urging a broader understanding.
Good is ‘the strongest gravity,’ says ‘Wicked’ author MaguireFairy tales often present characters as either good or bad. “Wicked” author Gregory Maguire asks readers to let go of binary thinking as they consider morality.
Behind the stacks: The secret life of a librarianMy novel experience as a children’s librarian was not the quiet desk job I had envisioned. It was so much more.
She empowers people with disabilities to feel pride in their storiesGrowing up, Tiffany Yu felt shame about her disability and hid it. Now, the author of “The Anti-Ableist Manifesto” uses her experience to change the narrative.
The 10 best books of November set a bountiful table for readersDig in to the 10 best books of November, from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s nature essays to a biography of Johnny Carson.
‘Time of the Child’ gently pulls back the layers of an Irish villageIn Irish novelist Niall Williams’ “Time of the Child,” an abandoned baby changes the lives of the village doctor, his daughter, and the townspeople.
Five children’s picture books bring beauty and delight to story timeGorgeously illustrated children’s books provide visual worlds to explore, while the books’ hopeful messages will cheer young and old alike.
Raising hens: A nature writer celebrates the humble chickenSy Montgomery fell in love with the chickens she raised. In “What the Chicken Knows,” she reflects on their sociability and barnyard smarts.
Juan Rulfo helped invent magical realism. His ‘Pedro Páramo’ is now on Netflix.Mexican author Juan Rulfo helped invent magical realism and influenced a generation of beloved Latin American writers. His novel “Pedro Páramo” just received a twisty adaptation on Netflix.
Krakens, codes, and cliff-hangers: Six stories to delight young readersImmersive books for young readers include Kate DiCamillo’s “The Hotel Balzaar,” Katherine Rundell’s “Imaginary Creatures,” and four others.
John Lewis served as ‘the conscience of the Congress’David Greenberg’s “John Lewis: A Life” follows the civil rights leader from the Selma march to the halls of Congress. Lewis kept faith with the practice of nonviolence.
Reagan left his mark on the Republican Party, and on the presidencyBiographer Max Boot charts the course of a politician who was famously affable and pragmatic, but who also resorted to racist dog whistles and played loose with facts.
Intervene or isolate? America’s role abroad has long been contested.America First was a rallying cry of isolationists in the 1930s. Charles Lindbergh, a spokesman for the movement, clashed with President Franklin D. Roosevelt over U.S. involvement.
Justice delayed: Why it’s so hard to free the wrongfully convictedIn “Bringing Ben Home,” Barbara Bradley Hagerty explores the long road toward exonerating Ben Spencer, a Black man imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit.
October’s 10 best books add up to a month of great readingThe 10 best books of October 2024 include a thrilling naval adventure, a novel about 19th-century New Orleans, and a history of Handel’s “Messiah.”
