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Nonfiction: Downloadable Neurons, Life on Mars: A Physicist’s View of Where We’re Headed

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00pm

Michio Kaku goes long in his new book, “The Future of Humanity,” imagining the frontiers of possibility. Given enough time, he says, we might become as the gods.

The Book Review Podcast: David Sedaris on ‘Calypso’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 1:00pm

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

Military History: Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 11:19am

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

Philip Roth’s Best Book

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

20 novelists, critics and historians make their case.

Crime: Missing Bodies, Missing Killers, Deadly Missed Opportunities

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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.

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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

Our back pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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.

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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.

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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.

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

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

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.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 05/25/2018 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Children’s Books: In a Newbery Medalist’s Latest Novel, Friends Find Solace in Words

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 3:00pm

In Erin Entrada Kelly’s charming new book, “You Go First,” misfits connect long-distance via online Scrabble. Is it an escape, or the start of a real bond?

Editors’ Choice: 8 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 11:06am

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

In '84K,' Every Life — And Every Death — Has A Price

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 05/24/2018 - 7:00am

Claire North's new gut-punch of a novel takes place in a dystopian world where one monster corporation controls England, every service is privatized, and every life has been assigned a monetary value.

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