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  1. Nonfiction

    Inside MAGA’s Plan to Take Over America

    “Finish What We Started,” by the journalist Isaac Arnsdorf, reports from the front lines of the right-wing movement’s strategy to gain power, from the local level on up.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    Steve Bannon recording his podcast “War Room” from his basement in Washington, D.C., in October 2023. Bannon has been an influential promoter of the MAGA movement’s “precinct strategy.”
    Steve Bannon recording his podcast “War Room” from his basement in Washington, D.C., in October 2023. Bannon has been an influential promoter of the MAGA movement’s “precinct strategy.”
    CreditErin Schaff/The New York Times
  2. Self-Help

    These Books Might Make You Happier

    Three new arrivals help readers make sense of our mental health crisis. They also offer solidarity.

     By Judith Newman

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    2. The Fashion Influencers of the French Revolution

      “Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge.

       By Dina Gachman

      The discovery of a rare set of fashion plates from a French Revolution-era magazine gave Anne Higonnet insight into a time when women’s clothing became a force of cultural and social change.
      The discovery of a rare set of fashion plates from a French Revolution-era magazine gave Anne Higonnet insight into a time when women’s clothing became a force of cultural and social change.
      CreditJames Estrin/The New York Times

  1. 6 New Paperbacks to Read This Week

    Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Dennis Lehane, Claire Dederer, Chad L. Williams and more.

     By Shreya Chattopadhyay

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  2. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book

    Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood.

     By The New York Times Books Staff

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  3. 17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring

    Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson — and plenty more.

     By Cody Delistraty

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  4. 27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring

    Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.

     By Kate Dwyer

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  5. Best-Seller Lists: May 5, 2024

    All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.

     

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  1. Anne Lamott Has Written Classics. This Is Not One of Them.

    Slim and precious, “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” doesn’t measure up to her best nonfiction.

     By Alexandra Jacobs

    CreditLourenço Providência

  2. Long Before Trump, Immigrant Detention Was Arbitrary and Cruel

    “In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, was built in 2014 to house up to 2,400 undocumented women and children.
    CreditIlana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

  3. Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Stabbing in a New Memoir

    “Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.

     By Dwight Garner

    CreditClément Pascal for The New York Times

  4. For Caleb Carr, Salvation Arrived on Little Cat’s Feet

    As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a new memoir, “My Beloved Monster.”

     By Alexandra Jacobs

    Masha, the cat at the heart of Caleb Carr’s memoir, enjoys classical music, hankers to wander free and “eats like a barbarian queen,” he writes.
    CreditGabrielle Lamontagne

  5. Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?

    In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    Look like someone you know? No longer the hunched and hairy creatures of the 1980s and ’90s, Neanderthals are now depicted as blond and blue-eyed tool users.
    CreditSculpture: E.Daynes; Photo: S.Entressangle/LookatSciences, via Science Source
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  9. The Essential Joan Didion

    Her distinctive prose and sharp eye were tuned to an outsider’s frequency, telling us about ourselves in essays that are almost reflexively skeptical. Here’s where to start.

    By Alissa Wilkinson

     

  10. Did Richard III Kill the Princes in the Tower?

    Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III’s remains. Now, she’s trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews?

    By Amelia Nierenberg

     
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