Sixteen writers, many of them African-American women, share what it’s been like to witness Michelle Obama in the White House.
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Month: January 2017
Books of The Times: Review: A Teenager Bears Witness to Backwoods Intrigue in ‘History of Wolves’
In this first novel by Emily Fridlund, the narrator looks back at a chilling incident from her teenage years, when she lived in a remote part of Minnesota.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Selection Day’ Presents India as Seen Through the Wickets
Aravind Adiga, who won the Booker Prize for “The White Tiger,” has written a cricket novel about two brothers that also sketches a nation in flux.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘The Big Stick’ Argues for a Robust Military Role Abroad
Eliot A. Cohen, a military historian who worked for President George W. Bush, argues for the use of force in the service of American security.
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Inside Jonathan Lethem’s Oddball Trove
Mr. Lethem, whose books include “The Fortress of the Solitude,” has sold his papers, artifacts, even drawings of vomiting cats, to Yale.
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