Arts & Culture

Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life

By Wynton Marsalis Vigeland

Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty

By Dennis McDougal

Family: A Celebration of Humanity

Hollywood Moms

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

By Louis Menand

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

By Nicholson Baker

The Book Group Book

By Ellen Slezak & Margaret

The New York Public Library Guide to Reading Groups

By Rollene Saal LeClerc

Live Steam: Paddlewheel Steamboats on the Mississippi System

Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fearrn

By Jan Bondeson

Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America’s Past (And Each Other)

By Edited by Carnes

Bibliotherapy

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964

By Langston Hughes

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