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  1. Spring preview

    24 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring

    Watch for a new “Hunger Games” prequel; a quirky romance from Emily Henry; novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ocean Vuong; and more.

     By Wilson Wong

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  2. 21 Nonfiction Books to Read This Spring

    A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty more.

     By Miguel Salazar and Laura Thompson

    CreditThe New York Times

  1. NPR Has Always Been Fighting for Its Life

    A new book by Steve Oney traces the public radio network’s turbulent history as it once again becomes a political target.

     By Sewell Chan

    The NPR building in Washington, D.C., in 2024.
    CreditErin Schaff/The New York Times
    Nonfiction

  2. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week

    Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

     

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  3. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Book: Romance

    Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.

     By The New York Times Books Staff

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  4. Let Us Help You Find Your Next Thriller

    Whether you're looking for a classic or the latest and greatest, start here.

     By The New York Times Books Staff

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  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. A Facebook Insider’s Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top

    “Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    Facebook’s C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq’s opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on May 18, 2012, the day of the company’s initial public offering, while Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s C.O.O., looks on.
    CreditZef Nikolla/Facebook, via European Pressphoto Agency

  2. A Melancholy Yiddish Classic That Also Happens to Be Hilarious

    “Sons and Daughters,” Chaim Grade’s serialized novel about Jewish life in 1930s Europe, has been published in English for the first time.

     By Dwight Garner

    Chaim Grade wrote “Sons and Daughters” during the 1960s and ’70s.
    CreditYIVO Institute for Jewish Research

  3. A Nanny on the Run With Someone Else’s Daughter

    “The Tokyo Suite” explores class divisions in contemporary Brazil via the twinned stories of a high-powered TV executive and the desperate caretaker of her child.

     By Alexandra Jacobs

    The contemporary skyline of São Paulo, Brazil, the main setting of “The Tokyo Suite.”
    CreditVictor Moriyama for The New York Times

  4. Trump Is Changing America From the Top. These Groups Did It From the Bottom.

    A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better.

     By Jennifer Szalai

    Demonstrators protesting mass unemployment in Los Angeles in 1933. Social movements are entwined with democracy, Linda Gordon argues, as both a product of mass political power and a factor in its spread.
    CreditAssociated Press

  5. ‘My 10,000 Hours’: The Diaries That Made Helen Garner a Writer

    “How to End a Story” collects three volumes of the Australian novelist’s self-conscious, sometimes harrowing journals.

     By Dwight Garner

    Helen Garner in 1986.
    CreditViva Jillian Gibb
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