Essay: Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond
To honor Thoreau on his 200th birthday, pay homage to all the outdoor temples his “in wildness” declaration helped protect.
Words by Numbers: The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures
There’s a way to measure the acute emotional intelligence that has never gone out of style.
Editors' Choice: 12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Newsbook: As Travel Ban Takes Effect, 3 Books That Delve Into the Immigration Debate
What does a country owe to outsiders? One book attempts to answer this question — and others further explore the complexity of the immigration debate.
After A Wild Start, 'Made For Love' Stumbles
Alissa Nutting's new novel has a deviant instinct that makes it fascinating at first — but after a promising start, it falls back on shallow sex slapstick rather than authorial skill.
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Summer Reading For Your Woke Kid
Looking for books to feed your child's curiosity and ignite the social activist inside of them? Here's our list of children's books to keep your child occupied all summer long.
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Something New For Baby To Chew On: Rocket Science And Quantum Physics
Chris Ferrie's board books introduce subjects like Rocket Science, Quantum Physics and General Relativity to toddlers and babies. What can parents do to make the concepts resonate?
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Nonfiction: Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College
In “Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst,” Robert M. Sapolsky serves up his neurobiology with a big dose of hipster humor.
By the Book: A. Scott Berg: By the Book
The biographer and consulting producer of Amazon’s “The Last Tycoon” might have been a doctor — “if only that didn’t require courses in biology, physics and organic chemistry. Oh…and med school.”
Randall Mann's 'Proprietary' Reinvents Classic San Francisco Poetry
Our poetry reviewer Tess Taylor looks at Randall Mann's new collection, Proprietary, which looks at the changes in San Francisco.
'Woolly' Breathes New Life Into A Scientific Saga
Ben Mezrich's taut, entertaining new book follows the men and women who have dedicated themselves to cloning the woolly mammoth, and maybe reversing some of the damage humans have done to the planet.
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Fiction: Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore
For the wealthy foreigners on a Greek island in Lawrence Osborne’s “Beautiful Animals,” a deeply compromised act of charity has dreadful consequences.
Nonfiction: America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed?
Jesse Eisinger’s ‘The Chickenshit Club’ outlines the cultural and political shifts that explain why virtually no one was prosecuted for the 2008 financial crisis.
'South Pole Station' Takes A Cool Look At A Hot Topic
Ashley Shelby's debut novel — set among an appealing mix of nerds and oddballs at Antarctica's Amundsen-Scott research station — is a refreshing diversion from summer's heat.
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Nonfiction: A Handshake With Kennedy, and a Boy’s Tumultuous Year
In Benjamin Taylor’s memoir, “The Hue and Cry at Our House,” the Kennedy assassination casts a shadow over one Texas family’s personal dramas.
Nonfiction: The Beginning of the End in Vietnam: An Account of the Battle of Hue, by the Author of ‘Black Hawk Down’
Mark Bowden’s “Hue 1968” recounts a battle that was a turning point in the Vietnam War.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Send Me Some Knockout Short Stories for Summer
Recommendations for a new devotee of short fiction include books by Nam Le, Deborah Eisenberg and Edward P. Jones.
'Golden Hill' Recalls The Dark Alleys And Twisted Virtue Of 18th-Century NYC
Francis Spufford's latest novel is set in 1746 Lower Manhattan, a world of spies, thieves, card sharks and crooked bankers. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Golden Hill "intelligent and entertaining."
Despite A Strong Start, 'Modern Gods' Falls Short Of Its Promise
Critic Maureen Corrigan says Nick Laird's latest novel begins as a tale of two Irish sisters, but ultimately turns into "a lot of wild blather" about political and religious orthodoxies.
Nonfiction: Stories of a Lifelong Fascination With Africa
In “Love, Africa,” Jeffrey Gettleman describes his enduring preoccupation with the continent and the career it has engendered.
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