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  1. PhotoNational Book Awards finalists include, from left: Tiya Miles for nonfiction; Jackie Wang for poetry; Robert Jones Jr. for fiction; Shing Yin Khor for young people’s literature; and Benjamín Labatut for translated literature.
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    Finalists Announced for This Year’s National Book Awards

    Five books are now shortlisted for each of the five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people’s literature. Winners will be named in November.

    By Elizabeth A. Harris

    2. PhotoIn “Big Night,” Stanley Tucci’s character owns a restaurant in New Jersey.
      CreditJohn Clifford/Samuel Goldwyn, via Everett Collection

      Nonfiction

      Welcome to Stanley Tucci’s Table

      In his new memoir, “Taste,” the actor opens up about the meals he’s eaten, the people he knows and his cancer diagnosis.

      By Frank Bruni

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    Globetrotting

    Your sneak preview of books in translation coming out in 2021, updated each season.

    By Tammy Tarng

  3. Recommendations

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    What to Read Right Now

    Book recommendations from editors at the New York Times Book Review.

  4. The Book Review Podcast

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    Richard Powers on ‘Bewilderment’

    Powers talks about his new novel, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers discusses “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.”

Books of The Times

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  1. What Do Marvel Characters Eat? Pop-Culture Cookbooks Have Answers, and Rapt Audiences.

    Early entries in the genre were more like novelties. Today, they’re encyclopedic examinations of the universe of a show, movie or game — with recipes.

    By Priya Krishna

  2. Nonfiction

    How White Feminism Threw Its Black Counterpart Under the Bus

    Kyla Schuller’s “The Trouble With White Women” exposes the hypocrisies and patriarchal overtones of the mainstream movement for women’s rights.

    By Joan Morgan

  3. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself

    I thought these middle-grade novels would help me navigate private school. Instead, they immersed me in bullying and materialism.

    By Lena Wilson

  4. Who Is the Bad Art Friend?

    Art often draws inspiration from life — but what happens when it’s your life? Inside the curious case of Dawn Dorland v. Sonya Larson.

    By Robert Kolker

  5. GROUP TEXT

    At This Book Club, the Truth Is About to Come Out. It’s Not Pretty.

    In “The Neighbor’s Secret,” L. Alison Heller gives us a dishy tale of nosy neighbors, mysterious vandalism, family shame — and murder.

    By Elisabeth Egan

  6. nonfiction

    The Enduring Influence of Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Advocate

    Two new biographies, “Walk With Me,” by Kate Clifford Larson, and “Until I Am Free,” by Keisha N. Blain, recount Hamer’s struggle to open up voting to Black people in Mississippi and argue for the continued relevance of her tactics.

    By Jill Watts

  7. Fiction

    ‘Grandma, Do You Think You Were Good in Bed?’ and Other Questions

    The narrator of Elisa Victoria’s debut, “Oldladyvoice,” is wise beyond her years.

    By Camille Bordas

  8. Nonfiction

    David Sedaris Shows Us How His Mind Works

    In his second collection of diary entries, the popular essayist welcomes readers into the kitchen of his brain.

    By Liana Finck

  9. Fiction

    A Novelist Reports ‘From the World of #FakeNews’

    Amitava Kumar’s novel “A Time Outside This Time” is a crusade against misinformation amid global upheaval.

    By Abhrajyoti Chakraborty

  10. Fiction

    Jonathan Franzen Takes On the Domestic Ills of the 1970s

    “Crossroads,” his new novel, follows one family in a Chicago suburb as they navigate a world full of moral dilemmas.

    By Thomas Mallon