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In 'Fevers, Feuds And Diamonds,' Paul Farmer Breaks Down Assumptions About Ebola

NPR Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 10:28am

The anthropologist and physician teaches that the world needs not only medicine, but something more — a rejection of global racial inequalities and serious investment in the care of all people.

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Book Review: ‘V2,’ by Robert Harris

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 9:41am

“V2,” Robert Harris’s new World War II novel, follows a German engineer of the feared rockets and a British woman sent to stop them.

‘Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West,’ by Lauren Redniss: An Excerpt

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:01am

An excerpt from “Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West,” by Lauren Redniss

‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State,’ by Declan Walsh: An Excerpt

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:01am

An excerpt from “The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State,” by Declan Walsh

Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

“Maybe the People Would Be the Times,” “The Age of Skin,” “Mobile Home” and “The Best of Brevity” break down a complicated world.

Dissecting Black Love, White Tears and Racialized Sexual Panic

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

Three new books on race and relationships explore how white attitudes about sex and emotions have shaped our history.

In the Caribbean and Beyond, Aunties Are So Much More Than Just Family

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

In Alecia McKenzie’s new novel, “A Million Aunties,” a Black painter seeks solace from personal tragedy in the arms of his Jamaican community.

Book Review: ‘Oak Flat,’ by Lauren Redniss

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

In her latest work of graphic nonfiction, Lauren Redniss recounts what happened when a copper mining company decided to develop an Arizona tribe’s sacred land.

Book Review: ‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan,’ by Declan Walsh

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

In “The Nine Lives of Pakistan,” Declan Walsh, a foreign correspondent for The Times, profiles some of the country’s powerful and contentious figures and investigates why his work eventually got him kicked out.

How the Problem of ‘Waste’ Affects the Rural Poor

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

Catherine Coleman Flowers’s memoir chronicles her advocacy for improved sanitation systems in rural America and her own education as an activist.

A Writer Owes His Liberty to His Mother’s Surrender of Her Own

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

Ismail Kadare’s autobiographical novel “The Doll” is part remembrance, part detective story about how his mother shaped his own life.

The Deadliness of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak Was Not Inevitable

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

In “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds,” the public health expert Paul Farmer examines the structural and historical inequalities that led to Ebola’s devastating toll.

Book Review: ‘The Moth and the Mountain,’ by Ed Caesar

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

“The Moth and the Mountain,” by Ed Caesar, recounts the unlikely story of a man who dreamed of being the first person to ascend Mount Everest.

Book Review: ‘The Orchard,’ by David Hopen

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

In David Hopen’s debut novel, “The Orchard,” faith gets put to the test as a boy comes of age.

The Director André Gregory Has Written a Memoir, but He Says He Hasn’t

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

In “This Is Not My Memoir,” the co-star of “My Dinner With André” remembers his many theatrical provocations.

A Climate-Crisis Novel Offers True-to-Life Snapshots of Survival

NY Times Book Reviews - Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00am

“Stillicide,” a novel by Cynan Jones, imagines a world where an extended drought has transformed daily life.

Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 5:28pm

Two new works of history, “South to Freedom,” by Alice L. Baumgartner, and “The Kidnapping Club,” by Jonathan Daniel Wells, show how the actions of Black Americans have long influenced national politics.

Rachel Bloom’s Life Is an Open Book

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 5:00am

The star and co-creator of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” wryly explores adolescent angst, adult trauma and musical theater in a new memoir, “I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are.”

Jacques Pépin and the Art of Making the Most of It

NY Times Book Reviews - Mon, 11/16/2020 - 5:00am

“Jacques Pépin Quick & Simple,” an updated cookbook, offers useful lessons in economy for trying times.

You Don't Have To Like Astrology To Love 'Written In The Stars'

NPR Book Reviews - Sun, 11/15/2020 - 7:00am

A free-spirited astrology blogger and a straitlaced insurance actuary agree to fake a relationship — and then really fall for each other in Alexandria Bellefleur's charming queer romance.

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