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Discussion questions for ‘The Fifth Season’
Our June pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season." Here are some…
Our changing climate is inspiring a new genre. Start with these 5 novels
A new crop of writers have sought to depict what a future world might look like if humans don't do…
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‘An Odyssey’ author Daniel Mendelsohn answers your questions
Daniel Mendelsohn, author of our May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey…
‘The Fifth Season’ is June’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club
In N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award-winning fantasy novel "The Fifth Season," the world is menaced by environmental catastrophe, and its inhabitants…
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Remembering Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz
Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz has died of apparent cardiac arrest. Best known for the book "Confederates in the…
Tony Horwitz, author of ‘Confederates in the Attic,’ dies at 60
Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author, died Monday of apparent cardiac arrest in Washington, D.C.
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For Arlington’s Old Guard, the mission is to honor, and the standard is perfection
Arlington National Cemetery is well known as the final resting place for fallen U.S. soldiers. Less famous is the elite…
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If you're longing to be transported, here are some recommendations from "Now Read This" book club members.
How Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ is relevant today
"Classics are classic because all of us are always living the same old stories and dynamics, always enacting the same…
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