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  1. How a Gen X Graphic Novelist Reinvented the Romance Comic

    To fully understand Charles Burns’s remarkable graphic novel, “Final Cut,” you have to look closely at the way in which it was rendered.

     By Sam Thielman

    CreditCharles Burns/Pantheon

  2. Sex and Horror and the End of the World, in November’s Graphic Novels

    This month’s offerings include a collection of warped horror stories, an apocalyptic flood narrative and a hero doing battle with a super-being who sees humankind as a race of pests to eliminate.

     By Sam Thielman

    CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times
    Graphic Novels

  3. Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

    Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.

     

    CreditPhoto Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: HarperCollins Publishers
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  4. Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction

    Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”

     By Alexandra Alter

    Percival Everett, awarded the prize for fiction, said seeing so many people gathered together to celebrate literature gave him a sense of optimism.
    CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times

  5. 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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  1. Shopping and Shame Share the Shelves in ‘American Bulk’

    In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and rating the objects we desire.

     By Alexandra Jacobs

    “The American Dream, as we know it, is abundance,” writes Emily Mester. “But it is an equally American dream to be able to abandon, drop everything, to jettison, without guilt, anything that weighs you down.”
    CreditBrittainy Newman/The New York Times

  2. The Bataclan Terrorists’ Trial: 10 Months of Horror and Pity

    For his latest book, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère sat in a Parisian courthouse, absorbing grueling testimony about the 2015 massacre at the concert hall and other venues in the city.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    French police officers stand in front of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, a site of the 2015 terrorist massacre.
    CreditPool photo by Thomas Samson

  3. Becoming Cher Didn’t Come Easy

    The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to stardom, with and without Sonny.

     By Alexandra Jacobs

    Cher, at 20, in 1966, the year after she and Sonny Bono released their hit song “I Got You Babe.”
    CreditDezo Hoffman/Shutterstock

  4. The Needy Genius Who Understood the Cosmos (People, Not So Much)

    “The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his iconoclastic complexity.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    Roger Penrose at Oxford University in 1982.
    CreditAlan Hillyer, via Associated Press

  5. In This Tokyo Rock Novel, the Cool Kids Are Not All Right

    “Set My Heart on Fire” follows a young woman through a world of drugs, music and highly conditional relationships.

     By Molly Young

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  2. The Comedy of Pain, and Korean Food

    The comedian Youngmi Mayer is fearless on TikTok, about her Korean American identity and foodie culture. In a new memoir, she explains laughing while crying.

    By Melena Ryzik

     
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  6. Critic’s Notebook

    The Supervillain Is the Hero Now

    How Americans learned to root for the dark side — from the Joker and “Wicked” to Elon Musk.

    By A.O. Scott

     
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    4 Fantasy Books to Get Lost In

    There are few pleasures as delicious as losing yourself in a great fantasy book. Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, lists a few of her favorite fantasy books.

    By Jennifer Harlan, Karen Hanley and Claire Hogan

     
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