Tuesday, 31 October 2017

#9: Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon

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Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
Dr. Joe Dispenza
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Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
Dr. Joe Dispenza
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#8: Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel)

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Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel)
Michael Connelly
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Books of The Times: Vivian Maier, Through a Clearer Lens

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Pamela Bannos’s biography sees past the myth of one of the 20th century’s greatest photographers.

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#9: Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel)

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Two Kinds
Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel)
Michael Connelly
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Profile: Hilde Lysiak, Reporter, Author, 10-Year-Old

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Her story went viral when she scooped a local homicide story. Now, she stars in a children’s book series based on her reporting experiences.

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Further Reading: A Reader’s Guide to Impeachment

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Here is a collection of books that shed light on a challenging and arcane subject.

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A Train Called Anne Frank? German Railway Plan Prompts Outcry

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The young diarist, deported by rail to a concentration camp, was among 25 names shortlisted for new high-speed trains.

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#9: Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
Scott Adams
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Newsbook: Listen at Your Own Peril: 3 Chilling Audiobooks for Halloween

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The true story of a serial killer, a Stephen King classic and a vampire horror story.

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Books News: Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture Signed, Sealed and Delivered

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One year after Mr. Dylan won the prize, Simon & Schuster has also published “100 Songs” and a new edition of “Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews.”

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Fiction: A Stranger From the Past Confronts Roddy Doyle’s Latest Hero

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“Smile,” the author’s 11th novel, is the closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller.

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Nonfiction: In ‘Friends Divided,’ John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Beg to Differ

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The historian Gordon Wood traces the very long, very complicated relationship between two extraordinary men.

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Crime: Big-League Crimes, Solitary Victims and Galloping Escapism

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Tales of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher; Henning Mankell’s final novel; and Rita Mae Brown’s latest fox-hunting romp.

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Match Book: Dear Match Book: My Father Is an Intellectually Curious Conspiracy Theorist

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Nonfiction books, from popular psychology and economics to histories and intimate memoirs, to inspire (not incite) Dad.

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Monday, 30 October 2017

#9: Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit

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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews
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Iona Opie, 94, Authority on Childish Things, Is Dead

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Mrs. Opie worked with her husband, Peter, to produce major studies of nursery rhymes, games and jokes. She continued the work after his death in 1982.

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Books of The Times: ‘Poet in Spain’ Offers New Translations of Lorca’s Soulful Work

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The translator Sarah Arvio bypasses Federico García Lorca’s New York poems, focusing instead on what she calls his “moonlit earthbound Spanish poems.”

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Reading by the Numbers: When Big Data Meets Literature

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Franco Moretti of the Stanford Literary Lab has urged critics to stop reading books and start crunching them as data. What is the by-the-numbers approach adding up to?

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Notebook: Learning French With Flashy, Sassy Christine

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A textbook featuring a stylish student with the world on a string charmed a 12-year-old, and changed her life.

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The Book Crunchers

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Counting “and”s, mapping emotion and other explorations of the Stanford Literary Lab.

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Nonfiction: Antonin Scalia’s Speeches, Collected for Argument’s Sake

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The words of the late Supreme Court justice and originalist as reviewed by his old sparring partner, Alan Dershowitz.

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Nonfiction: Do Americans Need a Prime Minister?

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In “The Impossible Presidency,” the historian Jeremi Suri argues that the job has become overwhelmingly complex, more than a single person can handle.

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What to Read Before Heading to Ethiopia

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Here are three books on the country’s culture and history.

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Nonfiction: The War of Independence, Seen Through Six Sets of Eyes

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Russell Shorto’s “Revolution Song” recounts the stories of individual lives that intersected with our nation’s battle against enemies at home and abroad.

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Sunday, 29 October 2017

#10: Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life

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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life
Sarah Kaminsky , Adolfo Kaminsky , Mike Mitchell
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Q. & A.: Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Hitler in Los Angeles’

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Steven J. Ross discusses his new history of Nazi activities in Hollywood, and the spy ring that helped to foil fascist plans.

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Saturday, 28 October 2017

#1: Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book Box Set: Books 1-4

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Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book Box Set: Books 1-4
Herman Parish , Lynne Avril
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‘Frog and Toad’ Are Memes

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The characters from the beloved 1970s children’s series have been inserted into memes, which juxtapose the books’ bucolic imagery with darker strains of internet humor.

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Friday, 27 October 2017

#8: American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
Tamer Elnoury , Kevin Maurer
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#9: American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

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American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
Tamer Elnoury , Kevin Maurer
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Children’s Books: A Novel Set in the Amazon, Harking Back to Classic Survival Stories

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In Katherine Rundell’s “The Explorer,” four kids must find their way out of the jungle after a plane crash, stoking young readers’ dreams and anxieties: What if there were no parents? Could I eat a grub if I had to?

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Children’s Books: A Warmhearted, Multiracial Update to the Classic Big-Family Novel

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In Karina Yan Glaser’s “The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street,” a family — five children, two parents, three pets — may be forced to leave their beloved Harlem brownstone in this charming debut.

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The Book Review Podcast: Marilyn Stasio on True Crime

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Stasio discusses new books about real crimes, and Dave Eggers talks about his two new illustrated books.

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What I Love: Shopping for a Life He Didn’t Yet Have

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Tim Federle, author of “Life Is Like a Musical,” on why a sofa matters more than seeing your name in a copy of Playbill.

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Sunday Routine: How Yahdon Israel, of #LiterarySwag, Spends His Sundays

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Recently named the editor in chief of Brooklyn Magazine, Mr. Israel shops, reads books by and about women, and mixes himself a special cocktail.

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Sketchbook | Graphic Review: An Illustrated Homage to ‘D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths’

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George O’Connor revisits the classic graphic tome of Greek mythology.

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Inside the List: The Romance Writer Who Almost Lost Her Home to California’s Wildfires

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Bella Andre, who began her fiction career with a series about wilderness firefighters, had to evacuate her wine country house as the flames drew near.

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Paperback Row

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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

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Nonfiction: A Tour of the World in Cremations and Cadavers

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Caitlin Doughty, an American undertaker, discovers the diversity of death practices around the globe in order to reform funereal rites at home.

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Nonfiction: A Quarter of a Century Behind Bars, for a Crime He Didn’t Commit

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Alex Kotlowitz reviews Benjamin Rachlin’s “Ghost of the Innocent Man,” which tells the story of Willie J. Grimes, wrongfully convicted of sexual assault.

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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: George Stade on horror fiction.

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The Shortlist: Missing Persons and Messed-Up Shrinks: 4 New Suspense Novels

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Women take center stage in tense new novels featuring a missing child, a missing mother, a messed-up shrink and a murder victim who may not be dead.

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Letters to the Editor

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Readers respond to Ron Chernow’s biography of Ulysses S. Grant, and Bill Clinton’s review.

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Critic’s Take: Jonathan Lethem on the Cool Disturbances of Anna Kavan’s ‘Ice’

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Fifty years after Kavan’s novel was first published, Lethem revisits her lucid yet anguished work, and her troubled life.

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Thursday, 26 October 2017

#7: The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

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The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease
Michael Greger M.D. MD , Gene Stone
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#8: The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

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The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease
Michael Greger M.D. MD , Gene Stone
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Donald Bain, Widely Read Author (but Not by That Name), Dies at 82

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Whodunit? If you’re asking about a Margaret Truman or a Jessica Fletcher book (or “Coffee, Tea or Me”?), here’s your answer.

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Newsbook: In Time for Halloween, 3 Books on Monsters, Ghosts and Fear

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These books explore the history, culture, and symbols of the spooky holiday.

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Editors’ Choice: 12 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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Proust Fans Eagerly Await Trove of Letters Going Online

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The impending online publication of a trove of Proust letters and the auction of a rare special edition of “Swann’s Way” are delighting Proust admirers.

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Profile: Tattoos, Bieber, Black Lives Matter and Jesus

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Carl Lentz, lead pastor of Hillsong NYC, sidles up to the idea of Christian self-help with his book, “Own the Moment,” then aims for something different.

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Nonfiction: Stranger Than Fiction: The Best True-Crime Stories

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From Hollywood’s Black Dahlia case to killing sprees in 1950s London and 19th-century Paris, new books probe the grisly worst of human nature.

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Nonfiction: In ‘After the Eclipse,’ a Daughter Mourns Her Murdered Mother

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In parallel tracks of elegy and mystery, Sarah Perry recalls the life and death of her young mother, who was murdered when the author was 12.

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By the Book: Ron Chernow: By the Book

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The author of “Hamilton,” “Titan” and most recently “Grant,” is a slow reader: “It’s a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books.”

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Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Book News: A Batch of Letters by Harper Lee Come Up for Auction

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The letters offer a glimpse into the final decade of the life of an intensely private author.

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Books of The Times: John Grisham Prosecutes For-Profit Law Schools in ‘The Rooster Bar’

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Grisham’s new novel translates the ethical and economic issues raised by student-entrapping practices into the high drama of a swift legal thriller.

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First Person: The Museum of You Does Not Have a Gift Shop

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At some point in each life, a massive wave of objects — diaries, photos, letters, clothes, perhaps a piano — breaks over one.

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So Where Are the New J.D. Salinger Books We Were Promised?

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A 2013 documentary and related book, “Salinger,” claimed that Mr. Salinger had left five new works to be released between 2015 and 2020. But nothing has been released yet.

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Unbuttoned: Calvin Klein’s First Coffee Table Book Is R-Rated History

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In a 463-page tome, the designer looks back on his experience pushing boundaries.

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‘Alias Grace’: 20 Years in the Making, but on TV at the Right Time

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In Sarah Polley’s mini-series adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel, old issues of anti-immigrant sentiment, abortion and class warfare are suddenly new again.

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Fiction: King Lear Is Reborn as a 21st-Century Media Mogul

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In Edward St. Aubyn’s novel “Dunbar,” Shakespeare’s tragedy is recast as a struggle for control over an irascible father’s corporate empire.

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Fiction: Our Villains, Ourselves: A Thriller Roundup

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Six spooky fall thrillers, whose plots range from a campus crime to an international spy hunt to a young girl’s mystical self-murdering, all unsettle the neat distinctions between “hero,” “villain,” and even the reader.

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Fiction: A Novelist Asks, What if Women’s Bodies Became Deadly Weapons?

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In “The Power,” by Naomi Alderman, women gain the ability to harness a dangerous electricity and the world starts to change in their favor.

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Tuesday, 24 October 2017

#9: Obama: An Intimate Portrait

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Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza , Barack Obama
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#8: Obama: An Intimate Portrait

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Pete Souza , Barack Obama
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Books of The Times: ‘The State of Affairs’ Examines Our Cheating Hearts

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The sex and relationship guru Esther Perel’s new book is about the variety of reasons that people stray, and about the paradox of reconciling the erotic and the domestic.

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New & Noteworthy

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A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.

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#5: The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition

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The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition
Nintendo
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#5: The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition

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The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia Deluxe Edition
Nintendo
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#2: Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager , Barbara Pierce Bush , Laura Bush

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#8: Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade , Don Yaeger

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#2: Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

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Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Jenna Bush Hager , Barbara Pierce Bush , Laura Bush
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#8: Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny

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Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
Brian Kilmeade , Don Yaeger
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Nonfiction: The Man Who Photographed Ghosts

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Peter Manseau’s “The Apparitionists” reveals the art and trial of William H. Mumler, who stood at the intersection of 19th-century art, science and spiritualism.

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Fiction: A Roundup of New Horror, All Indebted to an Early Master

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Richard Matheson’s legacy is felt in stories of mysterious figures and horrible, dawning realities.

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Fiction: A Prequel to ‘Practical Magic’ Revisits the Owens Family

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In “The Rules of Magic,” Alice Hoffman provides a back story for the witchy aunts readers first met in her 1995 novel, “Practical Magic.”

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Match Book: Dear Match Book: I (Seek Those Who) See Dead People

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Novels from the frolicking to the infernal that fuse the natural world with supernatural phenomena.

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Footsteps: Chasing the Spirit of a Fractured Spain Through García Lorca

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The powerful voice of the Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca is still one that binds this nation in the midst of its current struggles.

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Monday, 23 October 2017

#6: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It!: Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives

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The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It!: Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives
Ree Drummond
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Books of The Times: ‘Sticky Fingers’ Captures Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner and the Culture He Helped Create

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The biographer Joe Hagan understands why a rock magazine editor matters to the history of the 20th century.

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Front Burner: Children’s Book Details the Knish War of 1916

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“The Knish War on Rivington Street” is an illustrated book that tells the story of two rival knish sellers on the Lower East Side.

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#6: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It!: Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives

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The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It!: Simple, Scrumptious Recipes for Crazy Busy Lives
Ree Drummond
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profile: Is Anna Faris Unqualified?

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Her new memoir, which blends relationship advice with reflections on her romantic follies, comes at an awkward time.

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Fiction: A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’

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With “Five-Carat Soul,” his debut story collection, James McBride explores race, masculinity, music and history.

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Nonfiction: The Pop-Culture Evolution of Frankenstein’s Monster

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In “Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years,” Christopher Frayling resurrects Mary Shelley’s classic through the countless visual adaptations of its monster.

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What to Read Before Heading to Kerala

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Three books that will whet your appetite for a trip to India.

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Sunday, 22 October 2017

#8: American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent

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Tamer Elnoury , Kevin Maurer
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Tamer Elnoury , Kevin Maurer
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Advertising: With Literary Support, Xerox Asserts Its Modern Relevance

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Xerox, in collaboration with the 92nd Street Y, gathered essays from writers like Gary Shteyngart and Joyce Carol Oates to help reinforce its role in the workplace.

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#10: Grant

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Grant
Ron Chernow
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#9: Milk and Honey

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Rupi Kaur
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Saturday, 21 October 2017

#10: The Rooster Bar

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John Grisham
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#10: The Rooster Bar

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The Rooster Bar
John Grisham
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Memoir of Growing Up Fat Forces France to Look in the Mirror

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Gabrielle Deydier’s plaintive account and sociological study exposes the many ways the obese face censure and insensitivity.

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Friday, 20 October 2017

#10: Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

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Sarah Chayes
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Newsbook: 3 Books That Explore Catalonia’s Fight for Independence

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The secessionist movement has been prominent for years.

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The Book Review Podcast: The Godfather of Post-Truth Politics

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Victor Sebestyen talks about his new biography of Lenin, and Marc Maron discusses “Waiting for the Punch.”

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Nonfiction: What Trump Can Learn From a Gold Star Family

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In his new memoir “An American Family,” Khzir Khan, who spoke so movingly at the 2016 Democratic convention, writes about patriotism and his love of America.

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Ivory Tower: Unknown Unknowns: Three Inquiries Into Religion

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What is religion? New books by a philosopher, a sociologist and a theologian give different answers.

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Fiction: One Woman’s Liberation, Set Against the Russian Revolution

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Janet Fitch’s historical novel, “The Revolution of Marina M.,” follows a young aristocrat-turned-Bolshevik as she navigates political and personal upheaval.

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The Shortlist: The Roots of Revolution

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Four new books explore the philosophical and political sources of the Russian Revolution, its early influences and how it influenced other movements.

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Paperback Row

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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

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Inside the List: Van Jones Sees More Political Rebellions on the Horizon

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In “Beyond the Messy Truth,” new on the nonfiction best-seller list, the CNN commentator blames an elitist system for the state of the country.

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Fiction: Anti-Semitism Heralds a Grim Future in This Classic Romanian Novel

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The Jewish protagonist of Mihail Sebastian’s “For Two Thousand Years” wonders what it means to love a country that doesn’t love him back.

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Fiction: Trying to Follow the Muse While Domestic Life Calls

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In Cherise Wolas’s debut novel, “The Resurrection of Joan Ashby,” a writer struggles to recover her footing and her self after raising a family.

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Open Book: A Quiet Member of the Canon

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“A Difficult Death” is the first critical biography in English of the 19th-century Danish novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen.

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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: an endorsement of James Billington’s sharp intellectual study of Russian culture.

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Letters to the Editor

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Readers respond to Jan Morris’s review of “Victoria & Abdul” and more.

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Thursday, 19 October 2017

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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Books of The Times: In ‘Righteous,’ a Stand-Up Sleuth Investigates His Brother’s Murder

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Joe Ide’s follow-up to his award-winning debut novel, “IQ,” begins in the exact spot that story left off: in a junkyard with a car full of evidence.

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Book News: Australia’s Amazon Book Battle

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The online retailer is moving in. Booksellers are nervous. But disrupting Australians’ reading habits might not be so easy to do.

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#8: The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1)

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Philip Pullman

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#10: Through Your Eyes: My Child's Gift to Me

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Ainsley Earhardt , Ji-Hyuk Kim
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#8: The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1)

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Philip Pullman
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#10: Through Your Eyes: My Child's Gift to Me

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Ainsley Earhardt , Ji-Hyuk Kim
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Nonfiction: A Portrait of Stalin in All His Murderous Contradictions

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The second volume of Stephen Kotkin’s biography “Stalin” reveals the ideologue and the opportunist.

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Nonfiction: The First Totalitarian

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Victor Sebestyen’s “Lenin” describes the inventor of a secular religion.

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By the Book: Simon Schama: By the Book

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The author of the two-volume “Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900” didn’t finish reading Elena Ferrante’s “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay”: “I left.”

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Wednesday, 18 October 2017

Bookshelf: An Unexpected President, and Expressions of Subway Therapy

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There are two new books about New Yorkers who rose to fame due to unforeseen political events: one became president and one led a movement based on public self-expression.

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Jann Wenner and His Biographer Have a Falling Out

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The Rolling Stone founder seemed to enjoy opening up his life to Joe Hagan. Now that the book is about to come out, they are no longer speaking.

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Books of The Times: With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy

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The author of the “His Dark Materials” trilogy returns, with answers to the questions what happened first and what happens next.

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Tom Hanks Talks

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The nicest guy in Hollywood discusses his love of typewriters and his new collection of short stories, “Uncommon Type.”

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How the Harvey Weinstein Story Has Unfolded

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A look back at the major elements of the continuing story, which has spilled well beyond Hollywood.

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Books of Style: Inside the Estate that Inspired ‘The Philadelphia Story’

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A lavish new book examines the history of Ardrossan and the old-money world of Philadelphia’s Main Line.

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#10: Malala's Magic Pencil

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Malala Yousafzai , Kerascoët
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#10: Malala's Magic Pencil

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Malala's Magic Pencil
Malala Yousafzai , Kerascoët
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