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

Nancy Colier, author of the new book "Can't Stop Thinking," shares how people can liberate themselves from obsessive rumination.

Andy Weir returns with new sci-fi thriller "Project Hail Mary," and Julianna Margulies opens up in new memoir "Sunshine Girl."

CHICAGO — Hanif Abdurraqib doesn’t exactly write about music. I mean, yes, he writes about music, he’s written three acclaimed books (and many poems) about music; he has two podcasts about music; the Brooklyn Academy of Music recently named him guest curator-at-large. One of my favorite pandemic activities has been settling into his website Sixtyeight2ohfive, a kind of musical family tree/personal excavation project culled from Spotify playlists, and though I don’t know if music was playing in the background all of those times he’s baked a cake on Instagram, probably....

CHICAGO — Hanif Abdurraqib doesn’t exactly write about music. I mean, yes, he writes about music, he’s written three acclaimed books (and many poems) about music; he has two podcasts about music; the Brooklyn Academy of Music recently named him guest curator-at-large. One of my favorite pandemic activities has been settling into his website Sixtyeight2ohfive, a kind of musical family tree/personal excavation project culled from Spotify playlists, and though I don’t know if music was playing in the background all of those times he’s baked a cake on Instagram, probably....