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• The Stories in This Chicago Housing Project Could Fill a Book
  

  And in Jasmon Drain’s debut collection, “Stateway’s Garden,” they do. ... More
• ‘Oscar Wao’ Review: The Tragedy, and Comedy, of Manhood
  

  In a Spanish-language stage adaptation of the Junot Díaz novel, the friendship between two Dominican men is a testing ground for competing visions of masculinity. ... More
• Andrea Bernstein on ‘American Oligarchs’
  

  Bernstein discusses her new book about the Trumps and Kushners, and David Zucchino talks about “Wilmington’s Lie.” ... More
• Roxane Gay Revisits ‘Darkness’ as a Graphic Novel
  

  The author’s latest comic book endeavor adapts a short story, “The Sacrifice of Darkness,” from her 2017 collection “Difficult Women.” ... More
• The Meaning of a Book is in the Eye of Its Beholder
  

  And there are so many kinds of beholders! ... More
• Marlon James to Host New Literary Podcast
  

  The Booker Prize winner is teaming up with his editor, Jake Morrissey, on “Marlon and Jake Read Dead People.” ... More
• Considering Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Fiction
  

  This week, Jabari Asim reviews a collection of short stories by Zora Neale Hurston. In 1978, Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote for the Book Review about Robert Hemenway’s “Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography.” ... More
• Four High-Octane New Thrillers
  

  The bodies pile up at the hands of hit men, henchmen, doctors, arms dealers and White House interns. ... More
• Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection
  

  Heartbreak, exile, lethal violence and the gold rush in the Amazon are some of the themes explored in three newly translated works. ... More
• New in Paperback: ‘Prisoner’ and ‘All My Puny Sorrows’
  

  Six new paperbacks to check out this week. ... More
• ‘Dear Me’: A Novelist Writes to Her Future Self
  

  Inspired by a character in a classic children’s book, Ann Napolitano began writing herself letters to be read only 10 years later. ... More
• Ouch, Oh and Oh No!
  

  Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review. ... More
• 12 New Books We Recommend This Week
  

  Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. ... More
• The Boys Return to Their Comic Book Roots
  

  A new story will reveal more about the characters before the Amazon Prime TV superhero series returns this year. ... More
• Reagan Arthur Named Publisher at Knopf
  

  Ms. Arthur, previously the publisher at Little, Brown, succeeds Sonny Mehta, who died late last year. ... More

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