Nonfiction: A History of Bloomberg’s Successes and Failures
Chris McNickle’s biography of Mike Bloomberg shows how New York’s mayor for 12 years used data and analysis to successfully transform the city.
Crime: Bad Neighbors, Bad Husbands and Very Bad Behavior
Two new crime novels travel back to the not-so-placid 1950s, while a third visits 19th-century Appalachia. Another tries to escape in a hot-air balloon.
Adolescent Friendship Fades Away In Claire Messud's Gothic 'Burning Girl'
Messud's novel centers on best friends from different class backgrounds who begin to drift apart in 7th grade. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls The Burning Girl a story of "betrayal and isolation."
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The Long View: ‘What Happened’? They Lost. With Her Memoir, Hillary Clinton Joins a Haunted Club
Jon Meacham on how Clinton’s chronicle of loss in 2016 compares with those of defeated candidates past.
In 'Damascus,' A Chilling Mystery With A Personal Connection
Deborah Campbell's A Disappearance in Damascus is both a taut detective story and an intimate account of friendship during war — and that's before our reviewer discovered her own part in the story.
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Fiction: In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves
Two New Yorkers — an aging lawyer and a young writer — make their way, separately, to Tel Aviv.
Nonfiction: A Memoir by Donald Trump’s Favorite Target
“Unbelievable,” by the NBC News correspondent Katy Tur, describes what it was like to be on the front lines during the Trump presidential campaign.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: It’s My First Foray Into Graphic Fiction
For readers seeking a novel kind of novel: illustrated narratives that harness the comic-book format to treat even the weightiest of themes.
Who Is 'What Happened' For? Maybe Hillary Clinton Most Of All
Danielle Kurtzleben says Clinton's tale of her losing 2016 campaign reads like the unburdening of a woman relieved to finally, without interruption, tell her side of a tale everyone already knows.
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Fiction: Broken Promises in the Promised Land
Mixing genres and voices, Nathan Englander’s novel “Dinner at the Center of the Earth” offers a tragicomic take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Nonfiction: The Right Way to Memorialize an Unpopular War
James Reston Jr.’s “A Rift in the Earth” tells how a bitter controversy over the Vietnam War memorial ended in national reconciliation.
'Gorbachev' Is A Gripping, Sympathetic And Detailed Portrait
In Gorbachev: His Life and Times, biographer William Taubman makes a convincing case that the former Soviet leader's decency — the word appears throughout the book — is key to understanding him.
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Take A Dip Into The Glittering Past Of 'The Riviera Set'
The fabulously louche social scene of the mid-century French Riviera — where socialites and stars mixed with the likes of Winston Churchill — comes alive again in Mary S. Lovell's The Riviera Set.
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In 'Frankenstein Dreams,' Everything Is Possible — And Also Terrifying
Michael Sims' anthology of Victorian science fiction explores the way Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein fit the nervous energy of the 19th century, and shaped the genre that came after it.
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The Book Review Podcast: ‘Gorbachev: His Life and Times’
William Taubman discusses his biography of Gorbachev, and N. K. Jemisin talks about reading, writing and reviewing science fiction and fantasy.
In 'Crash Override,' Zoe Quinn Shares Her Boss Battle Against Online Harassment
Having watched many colleagues attacked for speaking up, gamer Latoya Peterson offers a deeply personal review "I applaud Quinn for ... accepting that she is messy, imperfect, and, well: Human."
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Newsbook: In Harvey and Irma’s Wake, 3 Books on Hurricanes
Two books follow families affected by similar disasters, and a third argues that humans may hold the key to mitigating their impact.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to the complicated relationship we have to Freud.
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: TK TK
Inside the List: James Patterson’s Latest Villain Looks a Lot Like Amazon
“The Store,” at No. 4 after three weeks on the hardcover fiction list, features a married couple at war with a dominant online retailer.
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