Elizabeth A. Harris

Jan 6, 2025 | nytimes.com | Elizabeth A. Harris

HOW TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, by Elizabeth HarrisThe witty opening of Elizabeth Harris's "How to Sleep at Night" finds Ethan Keller confessing "something terrible" to his husband, Gabe: He wants to run for Congress. Ethan is a Republican, but Gabe is a Democrat, and Ethan says he won't run if Gabe says no. Wanting to support his husband's dreams and fearing the resentment a refusal could bring, Gabe agrees.

Dec 24, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Elizabeth A. Harris

My family includes a farmer and a fiber artist in rural Kentucky, who rarely miss a Sunday service at their local Baptist church; a retired Jewish banker on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; a theater director in Florida; a contractor in Louisville; a lawyer in Boston; and a gay Republican. Talking about politics at our family gatherings can be like smoking a cigarette at a gas station—there’s a good chance it will make the whole place explode.

Oct 8, 2024 | nytimes.com | Elizabeth A. Harris |Farah Otero-Amad |Karen Hanley |Claire Hogan |Laura Salaberry |Gabriel Blanco

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Sep 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Elizabeth A. Harris |Alexandra Alter

How Book Bans Happen Under the Radar Thousands of books have been publicly challenged and removed from libraries in the past couple of years. Elizabeth Harris, who covers books and the publishing industry for The New York Times, explains how books are being pulled from libraries in a quiet process called weeding. Weeding normally allows librarians to keep collections current, but some lawsuits argue that it has been used instead to remove books for content about racism, sexuality and gender.

Aug 20, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alexandra Alter |Elizabeth A. Harris

When Lisa Lucas was hired in the summer of 2020 to take a big job at the country's largest book publisher, there was a sense that things were finally starting to change in what has long been an overwhelmingly white industry. Lucas, who became the publisher of Pantheon and Schocken, imprints within Penguin Random House, was an unusual choice for the job. Executives in the book business often spend decades working their way up the ranks.