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“Sunrise on the Reaping,” by Suzanne Collins, explores the devastating story of Haymitch Abernathy, a mentor in the original “Hunger Games” novels. By Jennifer Harlan Our columnist on ...

Christopher Summerfield’s book “These Strange New Minds” offers a lucid intellectual history of AI and argues that chatbots are more than clever copycats. Joshua Hammer’s “The ...

March 17, 2025 • The prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex. The author of The Only Good Indians returns again with a spellbinding yarn about one of the bloodiest, most significant parts of ...