New York Times Opinion Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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America “is ceding control to the virus,” writes @johnmbarry, the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.” https://t.co/EBf7TmeUNW

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"What's revelatory," says @alexmlwrites, "about trans Y.A. hits like the novels 'Felix Ever After' by Kacen Callender and 'Cemetery Boys' by Aiden Thomas is that they dare create a world in which trans youths don't just endure but thrive." https://t.co/dl9mfKEhWx

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The word “transgender” did not exist during the life of ‘Little Women’ author Louisa May Alcott. But @peytonology asks whether it might be the best word to capture the experience of an author who wrote about having a “boy’s spirit” and a “man’s soul.” https://t.co/7728p9aAv2

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David McCullough has died. From the archive, a 1994 Op-Ed he wrote after the midterms: “Harry S. Truman staged one of the great comebacks in political history. So an obvious question comes to mind: What does Bill Clinton have to do to be another Truman?” https://t.co/gDGdl9ElPk https://t.co/2d0vhcWi34

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“On this centenary of James Joyce’s colossus,” @maureendowd asks, “is ‘Ulysses’ hard because it’s great, or do people assume it’s great because it’s hard?” https://t.co/GJ3WFfofo6

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Former President @BarackObama included @colsonwhitehead's novel "Harlem Shuffle" in his top books of 2021. In this October episode of The @EzraKlein Show, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist discusses parenting, zombies and where he finds inspiration. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-colson-whitehead.html

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An Op-Ed by Harry Belafonte was published on the eve of Election Day in 2016. He quoted a poem: “O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath — America will be!” — Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again” https://t.co/4rjeZ2vvpD

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“On this centenary of James Joyce’s colossus,” @maureendowd asks, “is ‘Ulysses’ hard because it’s great, or do people assume it’s great because it’s hard?” https://t.co/GJ3WFfofo6

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“It is going to be other kinds of minds that give us that clarity and strength," Richard Powers, the author of "The Overstory," tells @EzraKlein. https://nyti.ms/3EWgq57

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The novelist Mohsin Hamid has tackled the human questions surrounding social issues, from migration to race. On today’s episode of The @ezraklein Show, Ezra talks to Hamid about his latest novel, “The Last White Man.” https://t.co/Yydvl16g3w