Our Twelve Books of Christmas

Truman Capote relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York. (Slim Aarons via Getty Images)
Our favorite 2023 titles on creativity, parenthood, men, cancel culture, longevity, mental health, murder, grifting, identity, freedom, and sex.
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If you’re anything like us, you have a few books—okay, a stack, threatening to topple over—unread on your nightstand. Every night this past year we promised to finally start on one. Most nights, Twitter won out.
As the madness of 2023 comes to a close, we’re (finally, for real) taking a break from the newsfeed and turning to our bookshelves.
There’s a lot…
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