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From Dinner Parties To Spy Rings, 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes' Bursts With Detail

NPR Book Reviews - Sat, 09/30/2017 - 7:00am

Jason Fagone's biography of pioneering code-breaker Elizebeth Friedman — who, with her husband William, helped catch both smugglers and Nazis — is the story of a fascinating woman in perilous times.

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Profile: The World According to Dan Brown

NY Times Book Reviews - Sat, 09/30/2017 - 5:00am

A visit with Dan Brown, whose new novel — as with all of his works — doesn’t shy away from the big questions, but rushes pell-mell into them. In “Origin,” the question is: Can science make religion obsolete?

Profile: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 12:42pm

“Between the World and Me,” Coates’s treatise on black male life in America, catapulted him to prominence. Coates spoke to The Times about his new book, “We Were Eight Years in Power,” his year in Paris and what he’s up to next.

The Book Review Podcast: Recent Romances

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 12:42pm

Robert Gottlieb talks about new romance novels, and Celeste Ng discusses her new novel, “Little Fires Everywhere.”

The Shortlist: The Story of Louisa Alcott’s Baby Sister, and Other Characters From Literature’s Sidelines

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

Three recent books revisit the works of literary forebears to revive characters and contexts from centuries past.

Paperback Row: Paperback Row

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Inside the List: Gucci Mane’s Inspirational Guide to Self-Improvement (in Prison)

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

In “The Autobiography of Gucci Mane,” the Atlanta rapper details how exercise and books helped him improve himself behind bars.

Crime: The Latest and Greatest in Crime Fiction

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

New mysteries include Anne Perry’s “An Echo of Murder” and Attica Locke’s “Bluebird, Bluebird.”

Fiction: An ‘Antigone’ for a Time of Terror

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

In Kamila Shamsie’s novel “Home Fire,” British Muslims contend with identity, terrorism and divided loyalties.

Nonfiction: A Writer’s Onward and Upward Path in 1980s New York

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

Vivian Gornick reviews Adam Gopnik’s memoir, “At the Strangers’ Gate,” which intertwines his early professional life with the city’s cultural history.

Nonfiction: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Visions for His Daughter

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

In “Autumn,” addressed to his unborn child, the Norwegian writer focuses on the household preoccupations of middle age, shorn of novelistic glamour.

Nonfiction: The Transcontinental Life of an 18th-Century Woman of Letters

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

Based on volumes of Lady Anne Barnard’s private and published writing, “Defiance,” by Stephen Taylor, reveals the inner world of a quiet revolutionary.

Man of ‘Gotham’ Returns

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

“Gotham” — a 1,400-page radical history of New York — was an unlikely hit. Now, 20 years later, Mike Wallace has finished Volume II. And he’s still not done.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 09/29/2017 - 5:00am

Geoffrey C. Ward, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Vanessa Grigoriadis respond to reviews.

Editors' Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/28/2017 - 1:26pm

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

Q. & A.: Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 09/28/2017 - 10:00am

In his bold modern adaptation of King Lear, St. Aubyn envisions Lear as an aging media mogul whose empire and legacy are under threat from his daughters.

In 'Dear Fahrenheit 451,' Loving Books Both Wisely And Well

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 09/28/2017 - 7:00am

Librarian Annie Spence's new book is a collection of love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life — written in a warm, funny, specific voice that skillfully balances reverence and wryness.

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From Dinner Parties To Spy Rings, 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes' Bursts With Detail

Profile: The World According to Dan Brown

Profile: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual

The Book Review Podcast: Recent Romances

The Shortlist: The Story of Louisa Alcott’s Baby Sister, and Other Characters From Literature’s Sidelines

Paperback Row: Paperback Row

Inside the List: Gucci Mane’s Inspirational Guide to Self-Improvement (in Prison)

Crime: The Latest and Greatest in Crime Fiction

Fiction: An ‘Antigone’ for a Time of Terror

Nonfiction: A Writer’s Onward and Upward Path in 1980s New York

Nonfiction: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Visions for His Daughter

Nonfiction: The Transcontinental Life of an 18th-Century Woman of Letters

Man of ‘Gotham’ Returns

Letters to the Editor

Editors' Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week

Q. & A.: Edward St. Aubyn on the Challenge of Reimagining Shakespeare

In 'Dear Fahrenheit 451,' Loving Books Both Wisely And Well

By the Book: Jennifer Egan: By the Book

Nonfiction: Two Memoirs Celebrate Muses With Four Legs

Open Book: A Guide to Graveside Tourism

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