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	‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction
	The Washington Post

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‘Mary Poppins’ creator P.L. Travers is even more fascinating than her fiction

Anti-Trump conservatives want to reverse the GOP’s destruction. But they helped light the fuse.

Meet the microscopic creatures that share your home, bed and shower

What ails the American workplace — and a few ideas on how to fix it

Dreaming of artificial intelligence in ancient Greece and Silicon Valley

The many mysteries of the powerful and deadly Thomas Cromwell

The great triumvirate of antebellum politics: Clay, Calhoun and Webster

How running transformed the life of an NPR host

So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it.

Sales for Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ hit 3 million

A sometimes unsettling look at Degas’s beloved ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture

Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues

The most illuminating, self-involved, sycophantic and helpful books I read in 2018 — and the best one, too

The ’90s is having a literary moment. That is, the 1890s. . .

‘Milkman’ — one of the most challenging books of the year — is also one of the most rewarding

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What Stephen King gets right - and wrong - in 'The Outsider'

Reading a Stephen King novel is like climbing behind the wheel of a classic, unrepentantly American-made car. One glance at the furry dice hanging from the mirror tells you that you're in for a terrific, pacey read with the kind of character development that has kept King firmly at the top of our...

Remembering Philip Roth: Great writing, ugly truths

Sports books reviewed: Tiger Woods, Ken Harrelson bios, plus a look back at some epically bad baseball uniforms

A turning point for Texas' deep-red politics?

'Basic Black With Pearls' by Helen Weinzweig: A classic to revisit in this new feminist era

How does one respond to racist, xenophobic populism? Art plays a part, says Natalie Hopkinson.

After a life dedicated to social justice, Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards says she has no plans to run for office — yet

Not convinced by Mark Zuckerberg's testimony? Check out these books.

Do you believe in God? Then you have a moral duty to fight climate change, writes Jim Antal

New Meghan Markle biography offers engaging look at future royal bride but lacks 'wow' factor

Crime fiction reviews: Latest from Philip Kerr, Jo Nesbo and Michael Kardos

Investigating Trump: 10 books that offer insight

Christopher Moore's latest novel may be moody, but it's as daffy as ever

‘The Art of the Wasted Day’: Finding a rich life by looking out the window

An elegy for American diplomacy

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A heartfelt lament on patrolling the border: Francisco Cantu's 'The Line Becomes a River'

Francisco Cantú’s “The Line Becomes a River” is a book about the U.S.-Mexico border. Given how fraught the topic has become, it’s worth being crystal-clear right away about what the book is, and isn’t. It is not a book about President Trump’s proposed border wall and who will pay for it. It is...

Part 'Star Wars' homage, part unexpected coming-of-age novel: 'Black Star Renegades'

Dave Eggers' new nonfiction tale is about coffee and the American Dream

'The Widows of Malabar Hill' is a thrilling mystery set in a changing India, a century ago

New Orleans comes alive in Nathaniel Rich's 'King Zeno'

Stefan Merrill Block on his new novel 'Oliver Loving,' which follows the fallout of a tragedy in a small West Texas town

Annie Ernaux caps a remarkable stretch of unorthodox memoirs with 'The Years'

'The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica' doesn't quite deliver on the glitter of its premise

'Red Clocks' imagines a dystopia that feels eerily close to home

'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell

'The Complete Poems' of A.R. Ammons amount to a profound experience of empathy

Reading irresponsibly with Jack Kirby

Sam Shepard's dual-voiced farewell

An American wolf in Yellowstone

Chronicling the ascent and downfall of N.W.A — iconic, contradictory — in 'Parental Discretion Is Advised'

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