From Village to Myth: Moscow’s Thousand-Year Story
Simon Morrison’s sweeping history traces the rise of one of the world’s great cities
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Author: Art Edwards
‘Miracles and Wonder’: Who Was the Real Jesus?
Award-winning religion professor takes on the thorniest of topics
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‘The Name Of This Band Is R.E.M.’ Gives Fans Most of What They Want
Biography is comprehensive, but not quite life’s rich pageant
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Book Review: ‘The Death of Truth’
Steven Brill continues to tilt at the windmill of journalistic standards
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Book Review: “Token Supremacy”
Journalist Zachary Small chronicles the rise and fall of NFT mania
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The Last Garcia Márquez
‘Until August,’ a short, compelling final work of fiction from the late Nobel laureate
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The Content of Our Character
Writer/podcaster Coleman Hughes, in ‘The End of Race Politics’, argues for a new/old idea: seeing past race to the character of individuals
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Against the Algorithm
In ‘Filterworld,’ journalist Kyle Chayka gradually realizes that he’s not in control of his Internet time anymore
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Big Facebook Is Sort Of Watching You
In ‘Broken Code,’ a nonfiction account of Facebook’s inconsistent interaction with politics, turmoil equals clicks
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What Destruction Sounds Like
A Review of ‘Sonic Life’ by Thurston Moore
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Dark Web Detectives
‘Tracers in the Dark,’ a gripping narrative about the sinister world of blockchain crime
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Steve Almond Lands His Whale
The BFG interview with the 30-year professional writer who has finally published his first novel
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‘When We Were Birds’: the BFG interview with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
The writer from Trinidad and Tobago releases her debut novel today
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Colson Whitehead Plays It Safe
‘Harlem Shuffle,’ a light crime novel by a literary giant
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‘The Women of Troy’
In a new novel, author Pat Barker gives voice to the tyrannized female characters of ‘The Iliad’
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