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By Bruce Handy Picture book writers whose works look different from one another because they’re illustrated by different artists are less apt to be on your radar. By Emily Jenkins ...

In “All the Worst Humans,” Phil Elwood recounts a career spent engineering headlines for some of the world’s villains. By Jim Windolf New novels from J. Courtney Sullivan and Liz Moore, a ...

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When it comes to reading taste, sometimes we have to agree to disagree. Your favorite book may be a measly one-star review to someone else. But now and then, a story becomes so universally beloved ...

and the other is nostalgia.” So wrote musician Frank Zappa (1940-93) in his 1989 memoir, “The Real Frank Zappa Book.” I was never sure what he meant, but I thought about it in the past few ...

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Rotsztain, who tweeted about “nostalgia for the innocence of lockdown” in April of this year, isn’t alone in pining for those early days. With coronavirus stubbornly lingering ...