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In 'Fight No More,' Life Rushes By, But Sometime's There's Beauty

NPR Book Reviews - Sat, 06/16/2018 - 7:00am

Lydia Millet's latest is a novel about death, disguised as a short story collection about real estate, alternately wrenching and hilarious, and full of joys on every scale.

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Fiction: Twins, Foils, Frauds: A Posthumous Novel on the Puzzle of Free Will

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 7:06pm

In “The Solitary Twin,” by Harry Mathews, fractured identities come together in small, miraculous revelations that never feel contrived at all.

The Book Review Podcast: The Things We Inherit

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 3:39pm

Carl Zimmer discusses “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh,” and Henry Alford talks about “And Then We Danced.”

Fiction: In This Novel, a First-Grader Survives a School Shooting. His Older Brother Does Not.

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 11:46am

The 6-year-old narrator of Rhiannon Navin’s debut, “Only Child,” tries to decipher the grief that transforms his parents.

Nonfiction: A Writer Recalls Her Schoolgirl Crush on a Deranged Tennis Coach

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 10:04am

In “You All Grow Up and Leave Me,” Piper Weiss remembers an infamous attack in the 1990s, and the man who was allowed to get alarmingly close to the female students who idolized him.

Nonfiction: You Say ‘To-may-to,’ I Say ‘To-mah-to’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

Lynne Murphy’s “The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English” depicts nations divided by a common language.

Inside the List: What Would You Do if You Found a Bag Crammed With Cash?

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

That’s the question Catherine Steadman explores in her tense debut thriller, “Something in the Water.”

Nonfiction: Why Trump Voters Supported Trump

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

“The Great Revolt,” by Salena Zito and Brad Todd, allows Trump backers to speak in their own voices.

The Shortlist: To the Poles — Before They Started Melting

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

A new book charts the effects of climate change while two others return readers to the great age of Arctic and Antarctic exploration.

New in Paperback: ‘Why Buddhism Is True,’ ‘The End of Eddy’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Nonfiction: Terrorists Killed 12 Nepalese Men. Was an American Military Contractor to Blame?

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

In “The Girl From Kathmandu,” Cam Simpson investigates the deaths of a dozen laborers en route to an American military base where they had never intended to go.

Essay: No Two People Read Exactly the Same Book, and That’s a Good Thing

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

Reading to his son, who has cerebral palsy, the poet Craig Morgan Teicher discovers the many-layered pleasures of sharing an experience that is inherently private.

Sketchbook: Left to Their Own (Literary) Devices

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

Grant Snider provides an illustrated reminder of what happens when kids are left to roam the stacks of a library.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 06/15/2018 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Nonfiction: A Biography Chronicles the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/14/2018 - 5:55pm

In “Agatha Christie,” by Laura Thompson, the author’s work is quoted extensively but little attention is given to how she committed all those murders.

Nonfiction: A Poet’s Memoir Explores Race, Addiction and a Fraught Father-Son Dynamic

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/14/2018 - 4:01pm

In “Air Traffic,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo grapples with a complicated family legacy.

Children’s Books: Why Do Kids’ Books About Black Hair Draw So Much Attention — and Controversy?

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/14/2018 - 3:00pm

I set out to write a warm, whimsical book about a black girl’s hair. Twenty years on, that’s still a powerful subject.

'Light Of The Stars' Looks To Other Planets To Illuminate Climate Change On Earth

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 06/14/2018 - 1:00pm

Adam Frank's valuable new book looks at the history of our search for other planets — and uses lessons drawn from outer space to shed light on the effect humans are having on our own planet.

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Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/14/2018 - 12:55pm

In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Lisa Zeidner’s review of “The Country Life.”

Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 06/14/2018 - 10:55am

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

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