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'Chemistry Lessons' Has A Great Formula, But The Results Aren't There

NPR Book Reviews - Sun, 07/15/2018 - 7:00am

The science doesn't quite add up in Meredith Goldstein's debut novel about a young scientist who's continuing her late mother's work on pheromones — in an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend.

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In 'The Cost Of Living,' Renouncing Serenity For A Life In Motion

NPR Book Reviews - Sat, 07/14/2018 - 7:00am

Deborah Levy's brilliant new memoir opens at a time of great change in her life — divorce, deaths, moving house — and it's full of the feeling of travel and movement, but preoccupied with home.

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The Book Review Podcast: From Transcribing for Obama to Writing Her Own Story

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 2:17pm

Beck Dorey-Stein discusses “From the Corner of the Oval,” and Caroline Weber talks about “Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-De-Siècle Paris.”

Nonfiction: French High Society During the Belle Époque

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 10:27am

“Proust’s Duchess,” by Caroline Weber, describes the luxurious but unhappy lives of three celebrated Parisian women.

New in Paperback: ‘No Apparent Distress,’ ‘The Destroyers’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Inside J.R.R. Tolkien’s Notebooks, a Glimpse of the Master Philologist at Work

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

A manuscript page from the “Lord of the Rings” author’s notebooks reveals his painstaking process of language invention.

Inside the List: Want a Belt Buckle, Coffee, Sword or Mug With That Book?

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

Sure, fans can buy books on authors’ websites. But enterprising authors like Brad Thor, Anne Rice and George R.R. Martin offer tie-in merchandise as well.

Children’s Books: Standout Summertime Picture Books

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

Young children will delight in these sweetly charming tales about sandcastles, ice cream, picnics and long walks.

Fiction: Does the Name Dag Solstad Mean Anything to You? It Should.

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

He’s Norway’s greatest living writer, and two more of his novels — “T Singer” and “Armand V” — have recently been translated.

Fiction: In This Novel, a Mother Risks Everything for a Second Chance

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

Evgenia Citkowitz’s first novel, “The Shades,” follows the remorseful decline of a family in the aftermath of a daughter’s death.

Nonfiction: The Illness That Had No Name

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

Amanda Stern’s memoir, “Little Panic,” recounts her quest to discover why she felt so different.

Fiction: ‘O.K., Google, Make Me Happy’: In This Novel, Technology Is a Panacea

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

In Katie Williams’s “Tell the Machine Goodnight,” there are individualized “contentment plans” that let us know how to achieve peace of mind.

Our back pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: a heroic quest in a finely detailed imaginary world.

Nonfiction: North Korea: Where Everything Is Forbidden Unless It Is Allowed

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

Travis Jeppesen’s “See You Again in Pyongyang” offers a glimpse into a country little known in the West.

Fiction: A Multiracial Family Provides a Lens on the Essence of Caregiving

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

In Rumaan Alam’s second novel, “That Kind of Mother,” a white woman adopts a black son. Universal truths about family and motherhood ensue.

My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

Andrew Solomon writes about the process of converting his book “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity” into a documentary.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 07/13/2018 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 07/12/2018 - 4:15pm

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

Books News: The Obama-Biden Bromance Continues. This Time in a Mystery Novel.

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 07/12/2018 - 4:00pm

In a new crime novel, the 44th president and his vice president team up to solve a suspicious death, and patch up their frayed friendship in the process.

A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived.

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 07/12/2018 - 3:00pm

Michel Houellebecq has eerily foreseen some of the worst social developments of our time.

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