Thursday, 31 August 2017

#10: Dog Man and Cat Kid: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #4)

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Dog Man and Cat Kid
Dog Man and Cat Kid: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #4)
Dav Pilkey
Release Date: December 26, 2017

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#9: Sheep No More: The Art of Awareness and Attack Survival

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Sheep No More
Sheep No More: The Art of Awareness and Attack Survival
Jonathan T. Gilliam
Release Date: December 12, 2017

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Editors' Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week

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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Newsbook: Deep Thinking on Affirmative Action

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Two books explore the contentious issue, while another demonstrates why such corrective policies may not be enough.

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#8: A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge)

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A Column
A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge)
Ken Follett
Release Date: September 12, 2017

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Elaine Ford, Writer of Spare, Detailed Novels, Dies at 78

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Ms. Ford, whose works included “The Playhouse” and “Monkey Bay,” found her stories in ordinary lives.

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Nathan Englander Channels his Inner John le Carré

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“Dinner at the Center of the Earth” is a Turducken of a book: “a literary novel inside a spy thriller that’s inside a love story.”

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Fiction: On the Lam With a Brooklyn Mom

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In Emily Culliton’s entertaining debut, “The Misfortune of Marion Palm,” the antiheroine makes off with a bundle of other people’s money.

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Nonfiction: A Panorama of the Gilded Age, Seen Through Sargent’s Art

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In “Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas,” Donna M. Lucey depicts the glittering world of the late-19th-century 1 percent.

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Fiction: The Amish Guide to the Apocalypse

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In “When the English Fall,” debut novelist David Williams asks how one Amish community can weather collapse in the face of global catastrophe.

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Non-Fiction: David Thomson’s ‘Warner Bros,’ a History of the Studio and the Family

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Was Jack Warner more important than the people who directed his movies? A famous film critic weighs in.

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Jesmyn Ward: By the Book

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The author of, most recently, “Sing, Unburied, Sing” is a self-described “reading glutton” who reads everything: “Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.”

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Wednesday, 30 August 2017

Pepe the Frog Cartoonist Stops Distribution of Children’s Book

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Matt Furie, the cartoonist behind a frog now synonymous with the so-called alt-right, has forced the removal of a book with Pepe from distribution.

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Books of The Times: ‘Cuz’ Mourns a Loss and Denounces a System

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Danielle Allen’s new book is about her cousin’s troubled life and death, and his experience in and out of the California criminal justice system.

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Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Crushed by Steamroller

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Mr. Pratchett, a wildly popular fantasy novelist who died in 2015, had requested that his unfinished work and computers be destroyed.

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Non-Fiction: Affairs to Remember: Nora Ephron’s Classic Rom-Coms

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In “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” Erin Carlson argues that Ephron took a Hollywood genre and made it her own.

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Nonfiction: Two New Old Books That Show Walt Whitman’s Different Selves

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Electronic sleuthing has identified two additions to the Whitman canon. What do they tell us about the man who sang of himself and of America?

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Fiction: Illicit Lovers, Reunited in Adulthood

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Sylvia Brownrigg’s sequel to “Pages for You” revives a secret lesbian affair between a college freshman and her teaching assistant, 20 years on.

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Children’s Books: Back-to-School Wisdom From the Creators of Your Favorite Children’s Books

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Beloved authors and illustrators reflect on their best and worst teachers, new approaches to old subjects and how to conquer bullies — and underwear.

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Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Howard Kaminsky, Publisher With a Best-Seller Sense, Dies at 77

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In top publishing jobs, Mr. Kaminsky steered Richard Simmons, Xaviera Hollander, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump into print while writing his own novels.

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#10: Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
4.4 out of 5 stars(11)
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Books of The Times: A Heroine in the Mold of Huck and Scout

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In Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel, a remarkably self-sufficient 14-year-old girl must try to survive her survivalist father.

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#10: Big Words for Little Geniuses

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Big Words
Big Words for Little Geniuses
Susan Patterson , James Patterson , Hsinping Pan
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#9: Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #3)

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Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties: From the Creator of Captain Underpants (Dog Man #3)
Dav Pilkey

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Nonfiction: ‘Good Booty’: The Sexual Power of Music

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In her new book, the critic Ann Powers examines the “erotic pull” of rock ’n’ roll.

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Fiction: The Real-Life Reality Show That Jumped the Shark

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In Alissa Nutting’s tragicomic near-future novel “Made for Love,” we’re all in a surveillance state of our own making.

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Bookends: Should Critics Aim to Be Open-Minded or to Pass Judgment?

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In Bookends, Thomas Mallon and Liesl Schillinger discuss what the best (and worst) criticism does.

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Match Book: Books for Adults That Channel the Back-to-School Spirit

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In time for the new academic year, novels set in elite boarding schools contain heartwarming coming-of-age tales and twisted adolescent dramas alike.

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#6: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Monday, 28 August 2017

#10: The Great Gatsby

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The Great
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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#10: The Rooster Bar

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The Rooster Bar
John Grisham
Release Date: October 24, 2017

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Essay: The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee

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Historians have long debated Lee’s place in American history, and that battle continues today.

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Open Book: Stories and Slurpees

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Kristen Arnett will celebrate the publication of her debut short-story collection at her local 7-Eleven.

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Books of The Times: George Smiley and Other Old Friends Return in John le CarrĂ©’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’

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In le CarrĂ©’s new novel, the children of some of his best-known characters have grown up and demand justice.

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Captain America: Fighting Evil Again

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The character’s return to the good side is being announced on what would have been the 100th birthday of one of its creators, Jack Kirby.

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#9: Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry OBSESSED!

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Hungry Girl
Hungry Girl Clean & Hungry OBSESSED!
Lisa Lillien
Release Date: September 5, 2017

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#5: My Absolute Darling: A Novel

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My Absolute Darling
My Absolute Darling: A Novel
Gabriel Tallent
Release Date: August 29, 2017

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Nonfiction: A Journalist Abroad Grapples With American Power

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In “Notes on a Foreign Country,” Suzy Hansen argues that “Americans were in active denial of their empire even as they laid its foundations.”

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Fiction: In This Beautiful Debut, a Boy Takes Flight in a Bleak World

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In JesĂºs Carrasco’s “Out in the Open,” a young boy tries to survive tormentors who are unrelentingly cruel.

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#10: Death Note (All-in-One Edition)

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Death Note
Death Note (All-in-One Edition)
Tsugumi Ohba , Takeshi Obata
Release Date: September 5, 2017

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Sunday, 27 August 2017

#10: Death Note (All-in-One Edition)

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Death Note (All-in-One Edition)
Tsugumi Ohba , Takeshi Obata
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#8: Stock the Crock: 100 Must-Have Slow-Cooker Recipes, 200 Variations for Every Appetite

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Stock the Crock
Stock the Crock: 100 Must-Have Slow-Cooker Recipes, 200 Variations for Every Appetite
Phyllis Good
4.2 out of 5 stars(16)
Release Date: September 5, 2017

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#8: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

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The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer
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Profile: A Debut Novelist’s Descent into Darkness

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Gabriel Tallent’s “My Absolute Darling” is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated debut novels of the year.

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Q. & A.: Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Art of Writing Biographies

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James Atlas, who has written about the lives of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz, talks about his new book, “The Shadow in the Garden.”

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#3: The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook 10th Anniversary Edition: Every Recipe and Every Review From All Ten Seasons

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The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook 10th Anniversary Edition
The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook 10th Anniversary Edition: Every Recipe and Every Review From All Ten Seasons
America's Test Kitchen
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#8: The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook 10th Anniversary Edition: Every Recipe and Every Review From All Ten Seasons

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The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook 10th Anniversary Edition
The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook 10th Anniversary Edition: Every Recipe and Every Review From All Ten Seasons
America's Test Kitchen
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#10: My Absolute Darling: A Novel

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My Absolute Darling
My Absolute Darling: A Novel
Gabriel Tallent
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#9: The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom

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The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom
Melissa Hartwig , Dallas Hartwig
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#10: Milk and Honey

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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
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Saturday, 26 August 2017

#10: 1984 (Signet Classics)

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1984 (Signet Classics)
George Orwell , Erich Fromm
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#9: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance
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#8: Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff

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Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
Chip Gaines
Release Date: October 17, 2017

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#10: Wisdom from Your Spirit Guides: A Handbook to Contact Your Soul's Greatest Teachers

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Wisdom from Your Spirit Guides: A Handbook to Contact Your Soul's Greatest Teachers
James Van Praagh
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#10: She's Still There: Rescuing the Girl in You

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She's Still There: Rescuing the Girl in You
Chrystal Evans Hurst , Priscilla Shirer
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#4: She's Still There: Rescuing the Girl in You

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She's Still There: Rescuing the Girl in You
Chrystal Evans Hurst , Priscilla Shirer
4.9 out of 5 stars(153)
Release Date: August 8, 2017

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Friday, 25 August 2017

The Doorman at the Mudd Club Tells All

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With his memoir “The Mudd Club,” Richard Boch revisits the punk rock venue that drew Bowie, Basquiat and a generation of downtown artists.

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Sex at Wesleyan: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t? An Alumna Asks

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The students were not impressed by my Take Back the Night stories. “We don’t want to change one night, we want to change every night,” one told me.

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Inside the List: A B-Movie Actor Makes It Big on the Best-Seller List

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As the star of cult films like “The Evil Dead” and “Army of Darkness,” Bruce Campbell has built a loyal audience.

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Children’s Books: Inspirational New Picture-Book Biographies, of Fascinating People — and One Amazing Horse

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These five gorgeously illustrated books bring to life the stories of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Arturo Schomburg, an unexpected Purple Heart recipient and more.

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Children’s Books: Forget My Bar Mitzvah, What About Getting Nuked?

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The 12-year-old bicultural protagonist of “This Is Just a Test” confronts threats, from the specter of a Soviet atomic bomb to his warring grandmothers.

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The Book Review Podcast: The Joys of Children’s Literature

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Bruce Handy talks about “Wild Things,” and Adrian Owen discusses “Into the Gray Zone.”

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Children’s Books: Just Be Yourself? In Middle School, It’s More Complicated

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In Kat Yeh’s refreshing “The Way to Bea,” a 12-year-old learns from harsh experience that self-revelation can lead to trouble.

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Open Book: Sharpen Your Pencils

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“Vanity Fair’s Schools for Scandal” dishes the dirt on campus cases ranging from the deeply disturbing to the famously shrouded.

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Children’s Books: ‘A Cocoon Over There’: A Back to School Comic from Liniers

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What happens when a new school year also means a new language and country.

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Children’s Books: These Tales Get Excited for School Days

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A boy who can’t find his stuff, a mom who can’t say goodbye, a teacher who can’t get a rude hippo out of the classroom, and more in new back to school picture books.

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Roxane Gay Answers Your Questions About Race and Writing

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Watch the best-selling author and New York Times Opinion contributor in conversation with our journalists and viewers on Facebook Live.

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Children’s Books: He’s a Bookworm. That Doesn’t Mean He Likes School.

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In Andrew Clements’s “The Losers Club,” a sixth grader must trade the peaceful, solitary world of books for the horrors of after-school activities.

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Paperback Row

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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

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Ivory Tower: The Chirps and Ripples in the Universe That Prove Einstein Was Right

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Three books on a major recent development in astronomy confirming relativity theory.

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Fiction: Misfit Creatures, Otherwise Known as Kids Today

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Gabe Hudson’s “Gork, the Teenage Dragon” and Jomny Sun’s “Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too” star anxious heroes navigating unfamiliar planets.

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Essay: Tasting the Sweetness of Summer, Berry by Berry

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Berries clothe seeds and fertilize them when they drop to the ground, and one summer they taught a young woman to savor time.

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Essay: How I Rebuilt My Childhood Library, Book by Book

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A novelist and new mother recreates her book collection for the next generation.

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Newsbook: Trump Is Afraid We’ll Forget These Men. Should We?

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Three books delve into the minds of Thomas Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.

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Brian Aldiss, Author of Science Fiction and Much More, Dies at 92

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Mr. Aldiss wrote scores of novels, memoirs and short stories, including the inspirations for the films “A.I.” and “Frankenstein Unbound.”

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#10: F*ck, That's Delicious: An Annotated Guide to Eating Well

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F*ck, That's Delicious: An Annotated Guide to Eating Well
Action Bronson , Rachel Wharto , Gabriele Stabile
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Poetry: A New Poetry Collection Proves Gerald Stern Is Still Hungry at 92

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In “Galaxy Love,” as in Stern’s earlier books, an appetite for the world and its riches is his driving force.

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Children’s Books: Alphabet Books for Kids: ABCs, 123s, Laughs and a Hero’s Quest

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High-spirited new picture books make learning letters and numbers an adventure.

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Children’s Books: Sorry, Mom, I’m an Aspiring Punk Rocker

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The Ramones-loving, guitar-playing heroine of “The First Rule of Punk” is up against school dress codes, mean girls and a disapproving Mexican mother.

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Nonfiction: ‘No Apparent Distress’ Tackles the Distress of the Sick, Poor and Uninsured

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Rachel Pearson’s med-school memoir describes her experiences trying to help the uninsured poor.

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Nonfiction: A Grown-Up’s Travels Down the Rabbit Hole of Children’s Literature

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Bruce Handy’s “Wild Things” takes us on a revelatory romp through books meant for childhood, but which often reveal even more about growing up.

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Fiction: ‘The Locals’ Explores the Tensions Between Townies and Weekenders

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When a hedge fund titan moves to the Berkshires in Jonathan Dee’s new novel, life for the residents begins to change.

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Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives

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In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: the voice of John le CarrĂ©.

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Critic’s Take: The Invisible Forces That Make Writing Work

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What goes into a finished piece of writing? Many things we writers cannot see.

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Children’s Books: Get Thee to Middle School! A Ren Faire Heroine Meets the Real World

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In Victoria Jamieson’s brilliant new graphic novel, “All’s Faire in Middle School,” the rules of school are even more complex than the rules of swordplay.

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Letters to the Editor

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Readers respond to “Chief Engineer,” parenting and more.

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Children’s Books: You Can’t Teach Kids Empathy, but These Picture Books Inspire It

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These authors and illustrators use a light touch to depict all kinds of children and families living, working and playing in peace and harmony.

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In Conversation: Spies Like Us: A Conversation With John le Carré and Ben Macintyre

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Sarah Lyall interviews two masters of espionage on the page.

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The Shortlist: How to Speak Perfect Emoji, and Other Language Lessons

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Four new books explore the constantly evolving — and playful — side of language: slang, puns and emojis.

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Children’s Books: Running for Their Lives in Two Middle-Grade Novels About Track Teams

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Novels from Jason Reynolds and Diana Harmon Asher feature runners who must push themselves into unfamiliar ground.

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Ivory Tower: The Chirps and Ripples in the Universe That Prove Einstein Was Right

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Three books on a major recent development in astronomy confirming relativity theory.

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Thursday, 24 August 2017

Fiction: Misfit Creatures, Otherwise Known as Kids Today

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Gabe Hudson’s “Gork, the Teenage Dragon” and Jomny Sun’s “Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too” star anxious heroes navigating unfamiliar planets.

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#10: A Legacy of Spies: A Novel

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A Legacy of Spies: A Novel
John le Carré
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Editors' Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week

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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Essay: Tasting the Sweetness of Summer, Berry by Berry

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Berries clothe seeds and fertilize them when they drop to the ground, and one summer they taught a young woman to savor time.

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Essay: How I Rebuilt My Childhood Library, Book by Book

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A novelist and new mother recreates her book collection for the next generation.

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Essay: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past

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Why the words we use to describe Sally Hemings matter.

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The Enthusiast: In Praise of Barbara Pym

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However remote her themes may seem beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip.

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Newsbook: Trump Is Afraid We’ll Forget These Men. Should We?

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Three books delve into the minds of Thomas Jefferson, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.

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Brian Aldiss, Author of Science Fiction and Much More, Dies at 92

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Mr. Aldiss wrote scores of novels, memoirs and short stories, including the inspirations for the films “A.I.” and “Frankenstein Unbound.”

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By the Book: Louise Penny: By the Book

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The author of mystery novels, most recently “Glass Houses,” recommends reading her fellow Canadian writer Margaret Atwood: “And I don’t just say that because the government compels me to.”

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Nonfiction: How Chester B. Himes Became the Rage in Harlem, and Beyond

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Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography, “Chester B. Himes,” traces the seminal crime novelist’s path from prison to international success.

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Nonfiction: A Parent Confronts Conformity in the Classrooms of China

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In “Little Soldiers,” Lenora Chu investigates both the roots of the Chinese education system and its effects on children, including her own.

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Bookends: Is Free Speech an Absolute Right, or Does Context Matter?

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The writers Adam Kirsch and Francine Prose discuss what free speech means in the context of Charlottesville and beyond.

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Wednesday, 23 August 2017

#9: What Happened

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What Happened
What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Release Date: September 12, 2017

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#10: Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

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Why Buddhism is True
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Robert Wright
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Books of The Times: ‘The Bettencourt Affair,’ a Buffet for Scandal Aficionados

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Tom Sancton’s book recounts the implications and intrigue that surrounded the L’OrĂ©al heiress Liliane Bettencourt’s relationship with a younger man.

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#10: Hot for Food Vegan Comfort Classics: Recipes to Feed Your Face

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Hot for Food Vegan Comfort Classics
Hot for Food Vegan Comfort Classics: Recipes to Feed Your Face
Lauren Toyota
Release Date: February 27, 2018

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#10: Glass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel)

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Glass Houses
Glass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel)
Louise Penny
4.4 out of 5 stars(10)
Release Date: August 29, 2017

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#1: What Happened

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What Happened
What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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#2: What Happened

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What Happened
What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Bookshelf: How’s De Blasio Doin’?

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Two books look at Mayor Bill de Blasio’s strengths, weaknesses, successes and failures as his term comes to a close and he prepares for the election.

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Nonfiction: An Educator Makes the Case That Higher Learning Needs to Grow Up

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In “The New Education,” Cathy N. Davidson argues that colleges must do more to adjust to social and economic realities.

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Fiction: ‘Motherest’ Wrestles With the Contradictions of Parental Love

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The narrator of Kristen Iskandrian’s novel, “Motherest,” hoped college would be an escape from an unhappy home. Now she must make a home for her baby.

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Summer Firsts: Joyce Maynard: On Love, Motorcycles and the Art of Being a Passenger

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One summer, the novelist and the man who would become her husband embarked on an unlikely journey through the heart of New England.

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#10: The Superkids Activity Guide to Conquering Every Day: Awesome Games and Crafts to Master Your Moods, Boost Focus, Hack Mealtimes and Help Grownups Understand Why You Do the Things You Do

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The Superkids Activity Guide to Conquering Every Day
The Superkids Activity Guide to Conquering Every Day: Awesome Games and Crafts to Master Your Moods, Boost Focus, Hack Mealtimes and Help Grownups Understand Why You Do the Things You Do
Dayna Abraham
5.0 out of 5 stars(104)
Release Date: August 15, 2017

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Tuesday, 22 August 2017

The Long View: A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It

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Rereading Maya Angelou, Richard Wright and other mid-20th-century writers is to see anew that Appomattox was as much a beginning as an end.

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#8: The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline

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The End of Alzheimer's
The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline
Dale Bredesen

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