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‘Brown Girls,’ a Daring Debut That Follows Its Characters Through Life and Beyond
Andreades follows her cohort into their careers, their marriages, affairs and divorces,…
Joan Didion Chronicled American Disorder With Her Own Unmistakable Style
But can anyone lampoon her style without relying on it? To condemn…
A Guide to Joan Didion’s Books
Didion’s “first collection of nonfiction writing, ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem,’ brings together some…
As a Black Bard of the South, Randall Kenan Toppled Monuments
In Zeke’s version, before the Civil War runaway slaves led by a…
Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs
The film studio A24 recently came out with a cookbook, “Horror Caviar,”…
With ‘Gunfight,’ an Insider Takes on a Community That Was Once His Own
Even so, the industry as a whole was evolving in a way…
Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021
THE LOFT GENERATION: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches…
The Best Poetry of 2021
This year of slow and careful re-emergence has felt, to me, like…
The Best Historical Fiction of 2021
This has been a great year for historical fiction, which makes choosing…
