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A minimally speaking autistic man just wrote a best-selling book. Or did he?
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A minimally speaking autistic man just wrote a best-selling book. Or did he?

Testing has become so advanced that doctors now miss important elements of diagnosis.

Her new memoir captures the cost of being an impossibly popular target.

Humankind has devised a new form of debasement.

A new book by an unremarkable Republican accidentally illuminates the devolution of the party.
Our culture editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.

The wildly popular Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth returns to a dark past.

Unemployable, emasculated, blundering: In novels, full-time fathers seem to always be falling short.

A poem

In a new book, intimate fantasies become a crucial vehicle for character development.

Ann Godoff, who died this week, cared passionately about her writers—and much less about her own ego.

Two new books demonstrate how Martha Gellhorn, Janet Flanner, and other reporters took journalism in directions that men could not.

A puritan strain is manifesting in realist novels as a marked absence of straight sex.

Each of these titles will widen your perspective, offering you original insight and vision.

His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.