Book excerpt: "Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight"
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"Dear Bob": Bob Hope's correspondence with GIs at war
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Book excerpt: Walter Isaacson's "The Code Breaker"
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Book excerpt: "Under a White Sky" by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Book excerpt: "Fake Accounts" by Lauren Oyler
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Book excerpt: "The Committed" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Suleika Jaouad's journey "Between Two Kingdoms"
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Book excerpt: "Between Two Kingdoms" by Suleika Jaouad
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Book excerpt: "Entangled Life," on how fungi shape our future
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The improbable life of Mike Nichols
The director and comedian who arrived in the U.S. as a child refugee from Nazi Germany became a Tony- and Oscar-winning master of both stage and screen, mining real life for comedic and dramatic gold.
The Book Report: Reviews from Washington Post critic Ron Charles (January 31)
Recommendations of new fiction and non-fiction titles.
Book excerpt: "Black Buck" by Mateo Askaripour
This debut novel – a New York Times bestseller – offers a comical tale of one ambitious Black man's experience on a tech startup's sales team.
Book excerpt: Kristin Hannah's "The Four Winds"
A historical novel set in America during the turmoil of the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of "The Nightingale" and "The Great Alone."
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House panel recommends holding Leon Black in contempt in Epstein probe
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OpenAI backs measure that would require independent audits of AI models
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