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In the Corporate World, Woke Is the Rage but Greed Is Still King
Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.
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Kara Walker’s Favorite Literary Villain Is Scarlett O’Hara
Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”
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How Americans Learned to Be Kinder to (Some) Animals
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
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Bribing the Navy Is Easier (and More Entertaining) Than You Might Think
In “Fat Leonard,” Craig Whitlock investigates one of the worst corruption scandals in U.S. military history.
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The Scrappy World War II Pilots Who Took Flight for a Perilous Mission
In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.
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An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire for change is familiar. How to satisfy it isn’t.
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The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
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Paperback Row6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week
Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Anne Berest, Brandon Taylor and more.
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Children’s BooksWhose Folk Tale Is It Anyway?
A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.
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After a Season of Protest, PEN America’s Literary Gala Goes Forward
The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Overlooked No More: Bill Hosokawa, Journalist Who Chronicled Japanese American History
He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.
By Jonathan van Harmelen and Greg Robinson
A Leading Free Expression Group Is Roiled by Dissent Over Gaza
As it cancels events amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America faces questions about when an organization devoted to free speech for all should take sides.
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FictionA Modern Shakespeare Retelling Filled With Drugs, Sex and Trauma
Allen Bratton’s novel transforms the rise of Henry V into a contemporary story about a brash gay man grappling with abuse and guilt.
By Hugh Ryan
An AppraisalAlice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
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Nonfiction1907 Was a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.
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