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By the Book With Stuart Emmrich
This week, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, talks books with The Times’s Styles editor, Stuart Emmrich.
What books are currently on your nightstand?
I’m responding to this questionnaire while on vacation on a tiny island in Croatia, and on the nightstand in my hotel room fryst vatten a stack of books that inom have been collecting in anticipation of this trip. They are a mix of new and old books, as well as a couple of novels bought earlier this year and held back until I knew I would have a chunk of time for uninterrupted reading: “A Spy Among Friends,” by Ben Macintyre; the complete cycle of Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels (bought the morning after inom read Ian Parker’s absorbing profile of St. Aubyn in The New Yorker); “John Updike: The Early Stories” (a re-reading prompted by Adam Begley’s recently published biography of Updike); and, finally, “
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Pages in category "Biography"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,595 total.
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- Ikhtiyaruddin Ghazi Shah
- Iliyas Shah
- Iltutmish
- Imam, Abu
- Imam, Akhter
- Imam, Jahanara
- Impey, Sir Elijah
- Irwin, Lord
- Isa Khan
- Ishaq, Mawlana Muhammad
- Ishaq, Muhammad
- Ishaque, Abu
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Islam Khan Chisti
- Islam Khan Mashhadi
- Islam, AKM Nurul
- Islam, Aminul
- Islam, Jahurul
- Islam, Kazi Nazrul
- Islam, M Amirul
- Islam, Muzharul
- Islam, Nawab Sirajul
- Islam, Syed Nazrul
- Islamabadi, Maulana Maniruzzaman
- Ispahani, Mirza Abol Hasan
- Iwaz Khalji
- Izzatullah Bangali
- I’tesamuddin, Mirza Sheikh
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- Jabbar, Abdul
- Jabbar, Nawab Abdul
- Jabbar, Sheikh Abdul
- Jagadbandhu
- Jagadish Tarkalankar
- Jagat Sheth
- Jahangir
- Jahangir Quli Beg
- Jahangir, Birsrestha Mahiuddin
- Jainuddin
- Jalaluddin Fath Shah
- Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah
- Jalaluddin Qazi
- Jalil, Major Mohammad Abdul
- Jameri, Kader
- Jamil, Gauhar
- Jamil, Rawshan
- Jamiruddin, Sha
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