Books Briefing
Our culture editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for the newsletter here.
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Getty Books Briefing: If Your Attention Span Is Shrinking, Read Poetry
A concentration cleanse: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Library of Congress The Books Briefing: Books for Feeling Better
Hopeful stories for difficult times: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Hare Krishna / Shutterstock Books Briefing: The World Through a Surrealist Lens
Strange worlds in strange times: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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VCG Wilson / Corbis / Getty The Books Briefing: Turning to Fiction to Cope With Fear
The literature of disasters: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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New York Public Library Books Briefing: The Uncut History of Black Life
Remembering and celebrating black history: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP The Books Briefing: A Study in Sleuthing
Mysteries and their histories: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Scott Sanders / Shutterstock Books Briefing: Giving Romance a Language
How to write about the feeling that’s hardest to communicate: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Library of Congress The Books Briefing: The Act of Writing Is an Oscar-Worthy Performance
Empathy on the stage and page: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: The Artists Who Melodize Our Lives
There’s more to music than meets the ear: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Alvaro Barrientos / AP The Books Briefing: Short Stories to Read and Reread This Weekend
Get ready for more original fiction from The Atlantic. Your weekly guide to the best in books.
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Lawrey / Shutterstock The Books Briefing: What’s White and Black and Read All Over?
The journalists who help us contextualize: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Neil Hall / Reuters The Books Briefing: First Exercise, Then Write
Health for the body, the mind, and the world: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: On Self-Progress
New year, new reads: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Library of Congress The Books Briefing: All the Books We Loved This Year
Looking back at the year in literature: Your 2019 guide to the best in books
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: The Part of Human Nature That Bends Toward Solitude
A tour of places to be alone: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters The Books Briefing: What Makes Falsehoods Captivating
Fakes and facts: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: Looking Back on Moving Forward
Historical texts on black progress: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: What Does Home Mean to You?
The places that make us and the places we make our own: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: Following Food From Field to Market to Plate
Examining how we farm, sell, and consume our food: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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David W. Cerny / Reuters The Books Briefing: How Writers Try On New Perspectives
Some points of view on point of view: Your weekly guide to the best in books
