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LaMarr Hoyt, the Chicago White Sox right-hander who coupled outstanding control with a fine sinkerball to win the 1983 Cy...
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With Spurs leading 2-1, fans in the East Stand at St James' Park alerted players to the incident in the...
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With Spurs leading 2-1, fans in the East Stand at St James' Park alerted players to the incident in the...
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Bewilderment, by Richard Powers (Norton). In this follow-up to Powers’s Pulitzer-winning eco-saga “The Overstory,” a recently widowed astrobiologist engaged in...
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“Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth,” “Savage Tongues,” “Three Girls from Bronzeville,” and “Home, Land, Security.”...
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The Kissing Bug, by Daisy Hernández (Tin House). “Other girls my age were taught to fear rabid dogs and horrible...
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Nauka — a long-delayed laboratory module that Russian space agency Roscosmos' launched to the International Space Station last week —...
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TOKYO — Sam Kendricks, the reigning world champion in the men’s pole vault, was ruled out of the Tokyo Games...
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The Vixen, by Francine Prose (Harper). After graduating from Harvard, Simon Putnam, the narrator of this novel, set in the...
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Everybody, by Olivia Laing (Norton). In this “book about freedom,” a novelist and critic presents an expansive exploration of topics...