Bookamaze: May 2018

Thursday, 31 May 2018

#10: The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
Ben Rhodes (Author)
Release Date: June 5, 2018

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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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#10: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson (Author)

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Review: ‘C.B. Strike’ Brings J.K. Rowling’s Detective Novels to TV

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The Cinemax series adapts the three mystery stories, about a struggling London private eye, that the “Harry Potter” author wrote under a pseudonym.

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By the Book: Bill Clinton: By the Book

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The former president Bill Clinton, who collaborated with James Patterson on the new thriller “The President Is Missing,” reads everywhere: “At my work table, in my easy chair, in bed and on the plane. Even in the car when I’m not too tired.”

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Bookshelf: Coming to America

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“Journeys” is a collection of 72 personal essays about how families from other countries started over in the United States.

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#9: The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

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The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
Ben Rhodes (Author)
Release Date: June 5, 2018

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Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Books of The Times: A Portrait of Weegee That Captures the Man and the Myth in Full

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“Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous,” by Christopher Bonanos, is the biography Weegee deserves: sympathetic and comprehensive, a scrupulous account with just the right touch of irreverence.

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#10: The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self

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The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self
Katty Kay (Author), Claire Shipman (Author), JillEllyn Riley (Author), Nan Lawson (Illustrator)

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#10: To the Moon and Back: A Novel (The Baxter Family)

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To the Moon and Back: A Novel (The Baxter Family)
Karen Kingsbury (Author)

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Release Date: May 29, 2018

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#8: Calypso

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Calypso
David Sedaris (Author)

(2)

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Nonfiction: Michael Chabon Tries Hard to Be a Good Dad

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Judd Apatow reviews “Pops,” Chabon’s collection of essays about fatherhood and its discontents.

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Nonfiction: How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution

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Andrew Friedman’s “Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll” describes the changes in American culture brought about in restaurant kitchens.

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Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Books of The Times: In 1973, an Arsonist Killed 32 People at a Gay Club. Why Has History Shrugged?

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In “Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation,” Robert W. Fieseler reports on an all but forgotten tragedy in New Orleans.

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#5: Lose Weight by Eating: Detox Week: Twice the Weight Loss in Half the Time with 130 Recipes for a Crave-Worthy Cleanse

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Lose Weight by Eating: Detox Week: Twice the Weight Loss in Half the Time with 130 Recipes for a Crave-Worthy Cleanse
Audrey Johns (Author)

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#8: Calypso

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Calypso
David Sedaris (Author)
Publication Date: July 5, 2018

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Nonfiction: She Was a Model for Impressionist Masters. Then She Became One Herself.

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Suzanne Valadon was too poor to study art, but as Catherine Hewitt makes clear in a new biography, “Renoir’s Dancer,” she learned a lot by posing for the great painters of her time.

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Pakistani Ex-Spy Chief Faces Inquiry Over Book With Indian Counterpart

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Asad Durrani wrote a rollicking book along with his Indian intelligence counterpart. Pakistan’s Army has now barred him from leaving the country while it investigates.

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Nonfiction: A Warning to Women of a Certain Age: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightdress

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Pamela Druckerman — horrified when waiters began calling her “madame,” not “mademoiselle” — has written a book about women and middle age, “There Are No Grown-Ups.”

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Nonfiction: When the Dinosaurs Reigned

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The paleontologist Steve Brusatte’s “The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs” offers a narrative history of the ancient animals that used to rule the earth.

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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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Monday, 28 May 2018

Books of The Times: In ‘Reporter,’ Seymour Hersh Recounts Leaping Tall Deadlines in Single Bounds

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Hersh’s vaunted career in journalism has included exposes of the massacre at My Lai, the torture at Abu Ghraib prison and many more scoops.

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Once Delayed, Nobel Prize for Literature No Sure Thing in 2019

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After the 2018 prize was delayed because of a sexual harassment scandal, the director of the Nobel Foundation said there might not be an award in 2019, either.

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Audiobooks: Audiobooks for Those Long Summer Drives, Without the Kids

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From the sidesplitting to the heartbreaking, the mysterious to the political, this must-listen list has something for everyone in your car.

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Audiobooks: Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids

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Essential, family-friendly narratives for even the longest of car rides.

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Sunday, 27 May 2018

#10: Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall-and Those Fighting to Reverse It

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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall-and Those Fighting to Reverse It
Steven Brill (Author)
Release Date: May 29, 2018

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#8: Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall-and Those Fighting to Reverse It

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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall-and Those Fighting to Reverse It
Steven Brill (Author)
Release Date: May 29, 2018

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#10: Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way: A Novel

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Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way: A Novel
Jocko Willink (Author), Jon Bozak (Illustrator)

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Nonfiction: Seeing America as Our Ice Age Ancestors Did

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Part travelogue, part archaeological study, Craig Childs’s “Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America” reads like a docudrama — and doesn’t reflect reality.

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Saturday, 26 May 2018

Fiction: A Cult Hit in Argentina, This Novel Evokes and Evades Malignant Machismo

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In “The Desert and Its Seed,” Jorge Barón Biza asks: How can someone who knows pain be capable of violence?

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Books News: 5 Novels Selected To Vie as Best of the Booker Prize Winners

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The authors up for the one-time award include Hilary Mantel, V.S. Naipaul and Michael Ondaatje.

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Fiction: A Devastating Friendship Forged in India’s Underbelly

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After being drawn into the world of human trafficking, two Indian girls encounter relentless cruelty at home and abroad in Shobha Rao’s novel, “Girls Burn Brighter.”

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Profile: A Scrappy Makeover for a Tweedy Literary Fixture

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The Times Literary Supplement was founded in 1902. Its editor, Stig Abell, was hired to usher it into a new era.

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Fiction: A Novel of Sri Lanka’s Civil War, in Lush Tropical Detail

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Roma Tearne’s “Brixton Beach,” a multigenerational family story, touches on sectarian strife in Sri Lanka and the nostalgia that comes after leaving home.

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#10: D&D MORDENKAINEN'S TOME OF FOES (D&D Accessory)

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D&D MORDENKAINEN'S TOME OF FOES (D&D Accessory)
Wizards RPG Team (Author)
Release Date: May 29, 2018

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Friday, 25 May 2018

Newsbook: During Ramadan, Read These 3 Books by Muslim Authors

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A family epic, a fantastical journey and a children’s book to teach young readers about the religious holiday.

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The Late Show Interview

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Stephen's interview with Stephen Colbert on May 23rd.

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The Book Review Podcast: David Sedaris on ‘Calypso’

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Sedaris talks about his latest book, and Alisa Roth discusses “Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.”

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Scene City: Whitney Museum Honors Three Women

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Benefits were held for the Whitney Museum, Solving Kids’ Cancer, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and PEN America.

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Military History: Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future

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Several new books examine methods of conducting war, from the days of George Washington to the latest developments in cyberwarfare.

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The Saturday Profile: An Affable Canadian Author With a Penchant for Murder

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The best-selling novelist Louise Penny reflects on her love of Quebec, struggles with alcohol, and how Inspector Gamache changed her life.

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The Shortlist: Wild Animals Gallop, Swim and Scamper Their Way Through These Books

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Three new books tell the story of jellyfish, mustangs and all the many creatures an impassioned veterinarian might encounter.

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Fiction: In the Colorado Desert, a Debut Novelist Finds a Metaphor for Israel and Palestine

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Heather Abel’s novel, “The Optimistic Decade,” takes a seat around the campfire of a back-to-the-land retreat for idealistic young activists in ’80s and ’90s America.

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Children’s Books: In Katherine Applegate’s New Fantasy Novel, Extinction Is Imminent

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What would it be like to be the final one of your kind? The only surviving member of a human-dog hybrid species tries to keep hope alive.

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Letters to the Editor

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Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

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Philip Roth’s Best Book

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20 novelists, critics and historians make their case.

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Crime: Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities

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In Marilyn Stasio’s column, a pond in Maine and a British choir loft may be crime scenes. World War II Reykjavik and modern-day Glasgow surely are.

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Sketchbook | The Literati: The Sensational Rise and Fall of Truman Capote

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How the success of “In Cold Blood” led to a quick fame, followed by a long infamy.

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Nonfiction: David Sedaris Has a New Essay Collection. It Changed Alan Cumming’s Whole Worldview.

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In “Calypso,” Sedaris delivers a caustically funny take on the indignities and banalities of everyday life, Cumming writes.

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Inside the List: ‘I’m the One You Want to Sit Next to When Things Are Dull’

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Sweet-and-sour humor permeates Dorothea Benton Frank’s latest Southern comedy of manners, “By Invitation Only.”

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New in Paperback: ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ ‘Compass’

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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

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Nonfiction: The French Revolution Made Him an Exile, and a Writer

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Alex Andriesse’s translation of “Memoirs From Beyond the Grave, 1768-1800” follows François-René de Chateaubriand from Europe to America and back.

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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: Tina Brown on Truman Capote‘s brilliant and tragic life.

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Fiction: 750,000 Germans Fled East Prussia in 1945. A Novelist Imagines One Family’s Exodus.

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In “All for Nothing,” the German writer Walter Kempowski confronts a long-simmering trauma: the plight of the country’s civilian refugees during World War II.

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Nonfiction: The Fate of Most Silicon Valley Drones: ‘Live Work Work Work Die’

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Corey Pein delves into the dark heart of the tech industry, where most are destined not to make it.

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Thursday, 24 May 2018

What Philip Roth Taught Me About Being an American Jew

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His books answered the question of how my Jewish education would translate into the real world, should I survive the ordeal of childhood.

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#6: Becoming

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Becoming
Michelle Obama (Author)
Release Date: November 13, 2018

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#9: Becoming

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Becoming
Michelle Obama (Author)
Release Date: November 13, 2018

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Editors’ Choice: 8 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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How ‘Cursed Child’ Puts Parenting at the Center of the Potterverse

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Two children’s literature experts consider what works in the Broadway play — for kids, sure, but for grown-ups too.

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Critic’s Notebook: Who is Neville Longbottom, and Why Should I Care? A Potter Newbie on That Broadway Show

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The stagecraft is impressive, but if you’re not familiar with J.K. Rowling’s world of wizards, “Cursed Child” can be a mystifying slog.

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Nonfiction: When a Stroke Felled Her Mother, This Author Ran Away to the Circus

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In “The Electric Woman,” Tessa Fontaine traces her experience of losing her mother against her life as a performer in America’s oldest sideshow.

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Q&A: Why Old Enclaves and New Islands Matter to Travelers

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The author Alastair Bonnett explains why people are drawn to places that offer solitude and surprise.

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By the Book: Lauren Groff: By the Book

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Lauren Groff, author most recently of the story collection “Florida,” sees Mr. Rochester as a villain: “He’s a sociopath who keeps his grieving wife locked in the attic and tries to gaslight poor, plain, abused Jane Eyre then marry her bigamously.”

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Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Books News: Philip Roth Dies; Philip Roth Readers Tweet

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The way we mourn now? On Twitter. Philip Roth has died at the age of 85, and the Twittersphere is sitting shiva.

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Books of The Times: In ‘The Mirage Factory,’ a Thriving Los Angeles Born From Humble Beginnings

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Gary Krist tells the story of the city through the lives of three people whose restlessness and ambition transformed it in the early decades of the 20th century.

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Book Explores Kim Jong-un’s Feelings About His Mother, and Other Family Tales

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A memoir by Thae Yong-ho, a senior diplomat who defected, also describes Mr. Kim’s brother as a fan of Eric Clapton and portrays tensions within the Kim dynasty.

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A Reader: If You’ve Never Read Philip Roth, Here’s Where to Start

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The prolific author died on Tuesday. Here are seven of his books that you should read right now.

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An Appraisal: Philip Roth, a Born Spellbinder and Peerless Chronicler of Sex and Death

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Roth’s work had more rage, more wit, more lust, more talk, and more crosscurrents of thought and emotion than any writer of his time.

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Essay: The Mystery Buffs in the White House

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Our presidents’ love of detective fiction has an august history. Craig Fehrman follows the clues.

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Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Books of The Times: A Darkly Comic Novel Stares Down a Life of Solitude

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In “Mirror, Shoulder, Signal,” the Danish novelist Dorthe Nors continues her intense fascination with aging, and with women who have resisted domestication.

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Nonfiction: The ‘Insane’ Way Our Prison System Handles the Mentally Ill

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In her new book, Alisa Roth details the way the criminal justice system makes the sick even sicker.

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#9: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World-and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World-and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling (Author), Anna Rosling Rönnlund (Author), Ola Rosling (Author)

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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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Fiction: Stephen King’s Reign of Terror Continues in a New Novel

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“The Outsider” starts out as a routine police procedural but before long transforms into something much more sinister.

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Match Book: Road Trip Reads

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Whether you’re traveling across the country or just taking a staycation, stock up for summer with these books that are as varied as America itself.

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Monday, 21 May 2018

Front Burner: A Tome to Turn to When Life Gives You Lemons

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“Lemonade With Zest” traces a summertime treat to ancient Egypt.

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Nonfiction: A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes

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In his new book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham argues that in bad times a liberal impulse has often prevailed over fear and division.

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Fiction: Money Can’t Buy Love, but It Can Buy Goods — and in These Stories, Lots of Trouble

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Lionel Shriver’s collection of short fiction, “Property,” is a wryly observant catalog of the ways an acquisitive urge can go astray.

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#10: Getting Back to Happy: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Reality, and Turn Your Trials into Triumphs

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Getting Back to Happy: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Reality, and Turn Your Trials into Triumphs
Marc Chernoff (Author), Angel Chernoff (Author), Alyssa Milano (Foreword)
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Books of The Times: With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk Completes an Exceptional Trilogy

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Our critic calls this series of novels, which began with “Outline” and “Transit,” a “stark, modern, adamantine new skyscraper on the literary horizon.”

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Richard N. Goodwin, Adviser to Democratic Presidents, Dies at 86

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A committed liberal, he wrote speeches for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and later worked as an author, journalist and political consultant.

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Bernard Lewis, Influential Scholar of Islam, Is Dead at 101

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Mr. Lewis’s views on the connection between Islam and terrorism inspired controversy but also helped shape American foreign policy under George W. Bush.

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#9: The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain (Author), Mark Salter (Author)
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#9: Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's Sport of the Future Since 1972

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Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's Sport of the Future Since 1972
Roger Bennett (Author), Michael Davies (Author)

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Nonfiction: How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught.

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In “Bad Blood,” John Carreyrou tells of the rise and incredible fall of Theranos, the biotech company that was going to revolutionize blood testing.

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Sunday, 20 May 2018

#8: The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain (Author), Mark Salter (Author)
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#9: The Outsider: A Novel

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The Outsider: A Novel
Stephen King (Author)
Release Date: May 22, 2018

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Q. & A.: Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Making Good Time With the Pony Express

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Jim DeFelice talks about “West Like Lightning,” his new history of the short-lived but long-remembered company and how it changed the United States.

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Grace Notes: Finding the Backdrop of ‘Gatsby’ in Connecticut, Not Long Island

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Where did F. Scott Fitzgerald find the landscape for “The Great Gatsby”? A book and a documentary challenge the long-held belief that Great Neck was the basis for West Egg.

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Saturday, 19 May 2018

#6: I Love Capitalism!: An American Story

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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Ken Langone (Author)

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#3: I Love Capitalism!: An American Story

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I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Ken Langone (Author)

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Friday, 18 May 2018

#7: Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
John Doerr (Author), Larry Page (Foreword)

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New in Paperback: ‘Augustown,’ ‘The Storied City’

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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

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Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Beat Poet and Author, Dies at 87

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Her writing pulsed with her hardscrabble Texas childhood and, refusing to be his “muse,” her liberation from an overbearing poet husband.

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Inside the List: Think Things Look Bad in This Country Right Now? We’ve Been Here Before, Jon Meacham Says

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In “The Soul of America,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the history of partisan fury.

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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: J.D. Scott reviews “The Old Boys.”

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Reader’s Notebook: ‘Assume the Worst’: This Isn’t Your Ordinary Graduation Speech

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In today’s commencement addresses, as evidenced by recent books, inspiration is sometimes superseded by skepticism.

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Nonfiction: How Rampant Globalization Brought Us Trump

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Robert Kuttner’s latest book, “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?,” looks at the backlash against markets unconstrained by national interest.

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Nonfiction: From Don DeLillo to Marilyn Monroe: Lorrie Moore’s First Essay Collection

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“See What Can Be Done” collects pieces on everything from Alice Munro’s fiction to the Lewinsky scandal to “O.J.: Made in America.”

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Audiobooks: For ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Fans, an Audiobook That Celebrates Madeleine L’Engle

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L’Engle’s granddaughters, Lena Roy and Charlotte Jones Voiklis, narrate “Becoming Madeleine,” a biography they wrote for the middle-grade set.

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Nonfiction: Why Libya Continues to Burn

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In “The Burning Shores,” Frederic Wehrey traces Libya’s troubles from the beginning of the revolution to its current upheavals.

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Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy

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He says there’s a crisis in masculinity. Why won’t women — all these wives and witches — just behave?

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Letters to the Editor

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Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

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By the Book: Alison Weir: By the Book

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The historical novelist Alison Weir, author most recently of “Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen,” has some reading advice for Meghan Markle.

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Audiobooks: Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’

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From “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to “The Waste Land” and “Four Quartets,” an audiobook original revisits the poet’s most beloved lines.

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Nonfiction: This Author Never Dreamed of Becoming a Mom. Until She Was One.

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"And Now We Have Everything” demystifies all the anxieties, logistics and wonders of pregnancy and childbirth — things Meaghan O’Connell never knew she wanted.

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Children’s Books: A New Technology Age: When the Technology Is Books, and the Age Is 3 to 7

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Picture books may be the best way to tell stories about modern, computer-saturated childhoods.

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Sketchbook: A Love Letter to Italo Calvino, and to New York City

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Reading “Invisible Cities” allowed the graphic artist Aude White to see her own surroundings in a new light.

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‘Dietland’ is Violent, Disruptive and Surreal. And Funny.

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This AMC show, based on the 2015 Sarai Walker novel of the same name, is a makeover story glimpsed through a series of distorting mirrors.

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Audiobooks: An Audiobook Gives New Life to the Haunting Memoir of a Waco Survivor

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A horrific account by David Thibodeau, one of the few Branch Davidians to survive both their leader’s doctrine and the F.B.I.’s bungled “rescue” attempt.

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Nonfiction: Did the Crusade for Human Rights Lead to More Inequality?

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In “Not Enough,” the Yale professor Samuel Moyn argues for a global solution to material inequality.

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The Shortlist: There’s More to Italian Fiction Than Elena Ferrante

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Domenico Starnone offers his own Neapolitan novel while Paolo Cognetti goes to the Alps and Edgardo Franzosini probes the life of a troubled sculptor.

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Nonfiction: Two Dudes With a Camera

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In their first book, “Like Brothers,” the indie filmmaker siblings Jay and Mark Duplass recount their unlikely path to Hollywood and tell readers how to follow suit.

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Fiction: Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child

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In “Motherhood,” a childless woman in her late 30s consults friends, psychics, the I Ching and her own conscience on the pros and cons of procreation.

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Audiobooks: Tiffany Haddish and Vivica A. Fox — Who Narrate Their Memoirs With Snap and Spirit — Have Some Advice for You

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Though their stories are quite different, the underlying message in “The Last Black Unicorn” and “Every Day I’m Hustling” is the same.

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Nonfiction: When Misery Becomes a Subject for Art

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In her final work, “Misère,” the late art historian Linda Nochlin finds in depictions of poverty in 19th-century art echoes of the miseries of the present.

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#10: D&D MORDENKAINEN'S TOME OF FOES (D&D Accessory)

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D&D MORDENKAINEN'S TOME OF FOES (D&D Accessory)
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Thursday, 17 May 2018

17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer

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In addition to the season’s usual fun, there are serious looks at pressing subjects among this summer’s must-reads, including the latest by Beth Macy, Michael Pollan, and Jaron Lanier.

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4 Writers to Watch This Summer

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R.O. Kwon, Judy Blundell, Masih Alinejad and James A. McLaughlin talk about their new books.

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What We’re Reading This Summer

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The Times’s staff book critics and others on what they’ll be packing to read at the beach.

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Nonfiction: Is the System Rigged Against Democrats?

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In “It’s Time to Fight Dirty,” David Faris lays out a strategy for structural changes to level a skewed electoral playing field.

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New Short Story

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Stephen has written a new short story, "Laurie," which is available now as a free download exclusively on stephenking.com. You may download and/or print the story for yourself or to pass along to others, but may not charge any money to share it.
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Editors’ Choice: 7 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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By the Book: Alison Weir: By the Book

Audionbooks: Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Nonfiction: This Author Never Dreamed of Becoming a Mom. Until She Was One.

Books News: Coming Soon to the Bronx, a Long Overdue Book Festival

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The literary event and a new general interest bookstore mark a revival in the borough.

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#8: I hope this reaches her too

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I hope this reaches her too
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Books of The Times: In ‘The Restless Wave,’ John McCain Says America Is Still Exceptional

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In his latest and likely last book, McCain expresses concern about the state of the union, but generally stops short of calling out President Trump.

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Review: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Has Fire and Fury but Sheds Little Light

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Ray Bradbury’s dystopian warning about mid-20th-century media and conformity gets a muddled HBO update for the emoji era.

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Bookshelf: New York, the Global Capital of Protest

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From the Flushing Remonstrance to Occupy Wall Street, New York City has been at the forefront of social activism for centuries. And a homage to the beauty of infrastructure.

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Review: In ‘On Chesil Beach,’ a Honeymoon Gone Wrong

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The film is a careful, effective adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel of intimacy and heartbreak, starring Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle.

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Nonfiction: I’m a Pro Football Player Now, but I’ll Be Black Forever

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Michael Bennett’s “Things That Make White People Uncomfortable,” written with Dave Zirin, is both a memoir and a call to political action.

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Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Fiction: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Life, as Fodder for Fiction

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The intimate relationship of Eleanor Roosevelt and the A.P. reporter Lorena Hickok is explored in new novels by Amy Bloom and Kelly O’Connor McNees.

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Your Tom Wolfe Reader

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The novelist Tom Wolfe has died. Here is a sampling of his work.

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Nonfiction: The Paradoxes and the Glory of Apollo 8’s Journey Around the Moon

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Fifty years after the spacecraft became the first to leave Earth’s orbit, Robert Kurson tells the story of the remarkable odyssey in “Rocket Men.”

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#10: How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic Nonfiction Writer and Novelist, Dies at 88

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He wrote “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,’ ‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ and ‘The Right Stuff,’ and pioneered the New Journalism of the 1960s and ’70s.

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Tom Wolfe, Pyrotechnic Nonfiction Writer and Novelist, Dies at 87

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He wrote “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” “Bonfire of the Vanities” and “The Right Stuff,” and pioneered the New Journalism of the 1960s and ’70s.

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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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Nonfiction: A Comic Force of Nature: The Life — and Death — of Robin Williams

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Dave Itzkoff’s exhaustive biography, “Robin,” explains why a great comedian “had admirers but no imitators.”

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Monday, 14 May 2018

Audiobooks: Benedict Cumberbatch Meets Albert Einstein in Carlo Rovelli’s New Audiobook

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In “The Order of Time,” a theoretical physicist reveals his take on relativity, order and the human condition.

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