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In 2018, the British journalist Dom Phillips joined a 17-day expedition into the Javari Valley, a vast, nearly inaccessible Indigenous

Barbara Holdridge, Whose Record Label Foretold Audiobooks, Dies at 95

Barbara Holdridge, who co-founded the first commercially successful spoken-word record label, one that began with the poet Dylan Thomas reciting

THE ART SPY: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, by Michelle Young In 1980, while living

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported

The Rev. David Tracy, a leading liberal Catholic theologian who open-sourced his understanding of God, borrowing from Jews, Buddhists and

In some ways, Li’s memoir is a radical rebuke of the conventions surrounding grieving. Early on, she warns those who

MALCOLM LIVES! The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers, by Ibram X. Kendi In my suburban, largely Black

WHO KNEW, by Barry Diller The yachterati’s worst-kept secret is now billowing in the wind. Barry Diller is gay, and

APPLE IN CHINA: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company, by Patrick McGee A little more than a decade ago,

Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward investigations and exposés — they include a study of the wellness industry,