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Our critics and writers weigh in on the best of 2023, including lists for books, music, art, television, movies, theater and more.

The Kalahari Typing School for Men: More from the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by McCall Smith, Alexander at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0676975690 - ISBN 13:  9780676975697 - Vintage Canada - 2004 - Softcover

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Her books found a worldwide audience, but while she wrote them she had to contend with the loss of her sight and the diagnosis of a brain tumor.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The year’s most transporting novels have taken us to the past and around the globe.

10 New Books We Recommend This Week May 6, 2021 Our recommended books this week offer revisionist views of a couple of historical figures: In “The Invention of Miracles,” her biography of the often-lionized Alexander Graham Bell, the writer Katie Booth takes a dim view of his efforts to eradicate deafness and its culture, while in “The Bomber Mafia,” Malcolm Gladwell looks favorably on the much-criticized Gen. Curtis LeMay and his ruthless Japanese bombing campaign late in World War II....

11 New Books We Recommend This Week Dec. 10, 2020 Old worlds spring to life in this week’s recommended titles, from a scientific account of Neanderthal culture to a biography of the seminal American foodie James Beard. There’s a new edition of “The Babur Nama,” the diaries of the 16th-century warlord who founded the Mughal dynasty in India. A look back at the golden age of Egyptology starting in 1822 — which is to say, a look back at archaeologists looking (way) back. A biography of t...