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Reading a book in a bar? It became a Twitter topic.

Column: Reading a book at the bar doesn’t make you a loner. (Twitter agrees.)

February 19, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

On Twitter, there is something called the "main character," where each day someone unexpectedly becomes a locus of significant attention for a tweet with which a large group of people...

Column: ‘Actually funny’ books? Here are 10 worth a laugh out loud

February 12, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

I recently received a plea from a reader asking me to recommend some "actually funny" books. The plea was rooted in a desire to escape the despair and uncertainty of...

Column: From my first forays into Book TikTok, 5 things I’ve learned

February 5, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

One of my New Year's reading resolutions was to experience and try my best to understand also known as #BookTok on the short video streaming social media platform. I am...

Column: Speculative NFT mania crosses paths with the book world by way of ‘Dune’

January 29, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Previously, I had made a personal pledge to never learn anything about NFTs (non-fungible tokens), but two things happened recently to break that pledge and take a closer look. Thing...

Column: Some books we find life-changing, which started but didn’t end with ‘Bridge to Terabithia’

January 22, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Social media gets an often deserved bad rap for bringing out the worst in people by, you know, oversharing about personal problems, or promulgating conspiracy theories, or fomenting insurrection against...

Author Norman Mailer, age 80, in his Brooklyn Heights apartment, Jan. 28, 2003, in New York.

Column: Norman Mailer may not be well remembered, but no, he was not ‘canceled’

January 10, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.

I have something embarrassing to admit: I forgot about Norman Mailer. There was a time, maybe 30 or so years ago, when I would've said that "The Executioner's Song," Mailer's...

Harper Lee's 1960 novel "To Kill A Mockingbird."

Column: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was just named the best book from the last 125 years. What does that mean?

January 3, 2022 at 8:52 a.m.

Following an entirely unscientific process, readers of the New York Times Book Review have chosen "To Kill a Mockingbird" as the "best book of the last 125 years." As for...

Column: My 4 reading resolutions for 2022, some easier than others

January 1, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

So every year, at the start of the year, I make some reading resolutions. Nothing too serious. I think it's a mistake to make resolutions about significant stuff. A resolution...

Column: Some books have special meanings. Let me tell you about ‘My Special Christmas’

December 25, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Christmas is the time of year when I pull out the book that I, personally, have owned the longest. It is titled "My Special Christmas" and the main character is...

Column: Biblioracle picks his favorite fiction books of 2021

December 19, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

I read so much fiction this year. I haven't read this many novels in a year since I was a kid devouring three or four books a week. And let...

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