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What does the worst stock market crash in history have to tell us today?The immersive new “1929” benefits from journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin’s meticulous archival research and his access to documents never before available, including the board notes from the New York Federal Reserve. -
‘The law didn’t respect them’: How the US deported thousands of citizens 100 years agoIn her new book, Marla A. Ramírez examines the reverberating consequences of a push to deport ethnic Mexicans, many of whom were U.S. citizens, during the Great Depression.
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In the memoir ‘Joyride,’ Susan Orlean turns her investigative eye inwardTo this master of narrative nonfiction, something extraordinary is waiting under every rock, beckoning her to look closer. -
‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.’ How two murderers found grace performing Shakespeare.Performing Shakespeare in prison helped two murderers rediscover their humanity and find redemption. They vow to “be wise hereafter and seek for grace.”
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‘There is an inner poet in all of us.’ Laureate Arthur Sze on poetry as discovery.Arthur Sze, the new U.S. poet laureate, hopes you’ll take time to read a poem today – slowly. Within it, he says in an interview, are words and phrases that can be “seeds that nurture you.” -
When the storms of daily life loom, my family finds refuge in readingIn an era in which devices and social media can increasingly pull us apart, one family discovers connection and togetherness in books. -
In the framers’ words, the US Constitution was meant as a living documentJill Lepore’s “We the People” examines amendments as engines of change. And “History Matters” offers insights from the late David McCullough. -
‘What it is to be human’: Poet Ada Limón reflects on curiosity and connectionIn her latest book, “Startlement: New and Selected Poems,” Ada Limón explores how questioning can lead to a place of truth. -
‘A spectrum of hope’: A science writer puts life under a microscopeIn “Super Natural,” Alex Riley explores how species evolved to thrive in the most extreme climates on Earth. -
A writer schools himself on the plight and might of birdsAdam Nicolson, a self-described “beginner in the wood,” unfolds singular facts and compelling anecdotes about birds that fire the imagination. -
Kick off autumn with books aplenty. Here are September’s 10 best.Time to put down those summer beach reads and focus on September’s crisp mix of fiction and nonfiction titles. -
In this roundup of fall mysteries, everyone has skeletons in the family closetGenerations are teaming up to put away the bad guys in mysteries ranging from the cozy to the decidedly not. -
Digging deep into the trenches of World War I in ‘Ring of Fire’“Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914” details how colonial powers sought land grabs and new weaponry gave them increased fire power. -
Shakespeare’s rival, Marlowe, awakened ‘the genius of the English Renaissance’Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe set the stage for Shakespeare and others, according to Stephen Greenblatt in “Dark Renaissance.”
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