The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour

By EMILY COOKE
NYT Books
In “Maid,” Stephanie Land describes what it’s like to be a single mother struggling to survive.
Published date: January 31, 2019 at 10:00PM
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In ‘The Earth Dies Streaming,’ Film Criticism That Transcends Raves and Pans

By JENNIFER SZALAI
NYT
A. S. Hamrah, the resident movie critic of the journal n+1, is committed to his ambivalence, conveying it with a mixture of precision and conviction.
Published date: December 26, 2018 at 08:19PM
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Marrying Him Was Political. Sponsoring His Visa Is for Love.

By JESSA CRISPIN
NYT Sunday Review
Our romantic, pragmatic green-card wedding day.
Published date: November 24, 2018 at 11:18PM
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What Constitutes a Foreigner? Two Story Collections Explore

By RUMAAN ALAM
NYT Book Review
Anita Felicelli’s “Love Songs for a Lost Continent” paints the outsider’s experience with a surrealist brush, while “Useful Phrases for Immigrants,” by May-Lee Chai, finds magic in the quotidian.
Published date: November 16, 2018 at 07:45PM
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Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: An Unlikely Relationship With Guns

By JOHN WILLIAMS
NYT
In “Let It Bang,” the African-American journalist RJ Young writes of learning about firearms in order to nurture a connection with his white father-in-law.
Published date: November 12, 2018 at 09:28PM
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I Believe in Ghosts

By KAITLYN GREENIDGE
NYT Sunday Review
Come to my family’s house. You might believe, too.
Published date: October 27, 2018 at 09:30PM
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A Short Novel of Love, War and Comrades in Arms Contains the World in a Foxhole

By ANTHONY SWOFFORD
NYT Book Review
Elliot Ackerman’s “Waiting for Eden” keeps an eye on a wounded veteran from the perspective of his dead best friend.
Published date: October 4, 2018 at 07:00PM
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‘If This Book Is Not Expressing Everything, What Am I Doing With My Life?’

By WYATT MASON
NYT
Daniel Mason, a 42-year-old practicing psychiatrist, spent 14 years writing his latest novel, his first about a doctor — and the costly mistakes he makes.
Published date: September 12, 2018 at 12:00PM
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Fall Back Into the School Year With Books by, for and About Teachers

By NICOLE LAMY
NYT Book Review
Fictional and autobiographical tales that span the vast range of the educator’s spirit.
Published date: September 11, 2018 at 12:00PM
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She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why.

By FRANCESCA MARI
NYT Book Review
In “Heartland,” Sarah Smarsh offers a cleareyed account of hardscrabble life on the Great Plains — a pattern that in her family goes back generations.
Published date: September 10, 2018 at 10:00PM
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Robert Wood, 95, Dies; Urged Christian Tolerance for Gay People

By RICHARD SANDOMIR
NYT
A United Church of Christ minister, he was the author of the 1960 book “Christ and the Homosexual,” a plea for equality that was rare at the time.
Published date: August 29, 2018 at 01:09AM
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How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal

By JENNIFER SZALAI
NYT
Louis Hyman’s history describes the corporate forces that during the 20th century led to a gig economy of expendable and precarious labor.
Published date: August 22, 2018 at 08:57PM
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Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality

By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
NYT Book Review
In “Winners Take All,” Anand Giridharadas explores a global elite that bemoans the state of the world while refusing to seek real, structural change.
Published date: August 20, 2018 at 12:00PM
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Looking Back at the Economic Crash of 2008

By FAREED ZAKARIA
NYT Book Review
Adam Tooze’s “Crashed” examines “how a decade of financial crises changed the world.”
Published date: August 10, 2018 at 12:00PM
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Going Solo: An Author Chooses — and Celebrates — Life Without a Partner or Kids

By AMANDA STERN
NYT Book Review
Glynnis MacNicol’s smart, pithy memoir, “No One Tells You This,” celebrates women who buck cultural norms.
Published date: August 10, 2018 at 12:00PM
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How Citigroup Escaped Financial Disaster in 2008

By WILLIAM D. COHAN
NYT Book Review
James Freeman and Vern McKinley’s “Borrowed Time” takes a close look at the government bailout of Citigroup.
Published date: August 6, 2018 at 12:00PM
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Anne Tyler’s Latest Heroine Quits Cushy Arizona for Quirky Baltimore

By KATE TUTTLE
NYT Book Review
In her new novel, “Clock Dance,” a staid retiree plunges into the off-kilter lives of a single mother and her daughter.
Published date: August 1, 2018 at 12:00PM
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It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long.

By LAURA LIPPMAN
NYT Book Review
Lawrence Osborne’s novel “Only to Sleep” jolts Raymond Chandler’s P.I. out of his quiet Mexican lair and back into the world of scams and seductions.
Published date: July 17, 2018 at 10:00PM
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In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife

By CLAIRE JARVIS
NYT Book Review
In the third installment of a quartet of books addressed to his youngest child, the Norwegian author recounts a medical emergency and its aftermath.
Published date: July 6, 2018 at 12:00PM
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Attention Please, Anne Tyler Has Something to Say

By CHARLES McGRATH
NYT
She’s not a recluse — or, as one critic called her, the Greta Garbo of the literary world — but she avoids interviews. So why is she doing one now?
Published date: July 5, 2018 at 12:00PM
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