100 Notable Books of 2024
Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
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A cold case from 1989 is at the center of this surprisingly moving and sure-footed true crime podcast. Jake Halpern, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, tells the story of a...
Ruth Bernard Yeazell is a scholar of the novel whose work has focused more on the visual arts than the average literary critic’s. She has written for The New York Review not...
English undergraduate majors Samantha Liu, Aanika Eragam, and Alex Moore had a strong second place finish at the 12th New Haven Spelling Bee on October 25, 2024.
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Every part of Norman Holmes Pearson had an unusual shape. He was recalled by one of his English students at Yale as a “black-browed, black-mustached man” with a “grotesquely...
The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it was for the...
Why do we find stories about vampires, from “Dracula” to ”Twilight,” so compelling?
Watch Heather Klemann discuss vampires here.
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