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Book review: How does Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression sound on the page? Yuuge!
Can anyone really satirize the self-satirized antics of Donald Trump?

Book review: A nut-and-dolt story by the author of “Wicked”
If you have a child who dreams of dancing, you've seen "The Nutcracker" enough times to know that you can't leave until Clara finally wakes up - and you do,...

Book review: Roddy Doyle was determined to write a novel that shocked — and succeeded
His latest book, "Smile," delves into painful memories of youth and abuse.

Book review: Naomi Alderman delivers in “The Power”
Alderman has written our era's "Handmaid's Tale," and, like Margaret Atwood's classic, "The Power" is one of those essential feminist works that terrifies and illuminates, enrages and encourages.

Book review: Egan’s heroine dives into a love as dark as it is deep
"Manhattan Beach" - longlisted for a National Book Award even before it was released - is a historical novel set during World War II in New York.

New U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith reports for duty
Tracy K. Smith, the new poet laureate of the United States, arrived for duty Wednesday at the Library of Congress in Washington.

Commentary: Has Britain’s Man Booker Prize become too American? Yes.
Nothing shatters the mystique of the floating city like seeing a McDonald's in Venice. But such deflating sights have been the norm for years. American colonization of the world's economy...

Book Reviews: Sex and the teenage boy
A pair of trim new novels confirms what you may have suspected all along: Girls focus on relationships; boys are obsessed with sex.

Book Review: A great Russian satirist sheds light on Trump’s fondness for Confederate statues
Back in 2000, the former Soviet dissident Vladimir Voinovich published a satirical novel called "Monumental Propaganda."

There’s no shame in reimagining Lewinsky
"Young Jane Young"