By Linda Holmes Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has ...
But its charm is eternal. Elena Ferrante’s four-book saga, the Neapolitan Novels, set in the city and read by millions around the world, was chosen this summer as the best novel of the century by The ...
Neapolitan Mastiffs were used as war dogs ... Rubius Hagrid’s clumsy and loyal behemoth of a dog was described in the books as a Boarhound. This was an old-time umbrella term for any large ...
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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
The pale beauty, cooked in the Neapolitan style, with toppings of mozzarella, butter-sauteed mushrooms, caramelised onions, cream cheese, parmesan and truffle oil is a complex mix of flavours and ...