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The Book Review Podcast: Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 12:13pm

Pamela Druckerman discusses “The Art of Screen Time” and “Be the Parent, Please,” and Ben Austen talks about “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.”

In 'A Higher Loyalty,' James Comey Describes An 'Unethical, Untethered' President

NPR Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 8:35am

NPR's Ron Elving says the former FBI director's new memoir is unlikely to convert the committed partisans on either side. Instead, it may well cause further entrenchment.

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An Illustrated Tribute to ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Sergio García Sánchez reimagines the 19th-century tale of a puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.

Nonfiction: The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Susan Ronald’s “A Dangerous Woman” is an energetic biography of Florence Gould and a terrific window into the life of the superaffluent.

Nonfiction: Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Benn Steil’s “The Marshall Plan” depicts the complicated politics and colorful cast of statesmen, spies and economists behind America’s intervention in midcentury Europe.

Nonfiction: A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Ben Austen’s “High-Risers” assesses the dire consequences of segregated low-income residential developments across the nation.

The Shortlist: How Endangered Is American Democracy?

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Four new books discuss current threats to our political system.

Fiction: In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

John Edgar Wideman brings a potent mix of the personal, political and historical to his new collection, “American Histories.”

Paperback Row

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Inside the List: Turning Basketball Lovers Into Book Lovers, a Stanza at a Time

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Kwame Alexander’s last novel — “The Crossover,” a Newbery-winning, hip-hop- inflected tale of sports-loving twin boys — was written in verse. So is his new one, a prequel called “Rebound.”

Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: corporate tyranny in Richard Powers’s “Gain.”

Fiction: ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ Goes Nordic Noir

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

In Lars Kepler’s latest thriller, “The Sandman,” two Swedish cops can only crack their case by befriending an imprisoned serial killer.

Ivory Tower: Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study?

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Three new books tackle the ethical dilemmas of ethnographers who immerse themselves in other cultures.

Fiction: The House May Be Haunted. But in This Novel, Commitment Is Scarier.

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

In Ben Dolnick’s “The Ghost Notebooks,” a young husband and wife find secrets lurking beneath the cozy charm of their new country home.

Children’s Books: When the Going Gets Tough, These Kids Find Their Way

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

In books by Varian Johnson, Vera Brosgol and others, kids aren’t spared life’s hardships. But they solve mysteries, handle smelly camp latrines and more.

Fiction: The Turbulent Life of the Small-Town Librarian

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

In Sue Halpern’s novel “Summer Hours at the Robbers Library,” a woman with a past takes a quiet job in a quiet town.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Crime: Solving Crimes the Old-Fashioned Way

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 04/13/2018 - 5:00am

Three brainy investigators (Lincoln Rhyme, Amos Walker and Bernie Gunther) and an apprentice sleuth (Daniel Pitt) track down some canny killers.

By the Book: James B. Comey: By the Book

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 04/12/2018 - 7:09pm

When James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and author of “A Higher Loyalty,” reads fiction, it’s “almost always something my kids are reading, so I can … pretend to be cool.”

Nonfiction: James Comey Has a Story to Tell. It’s Very Persuasive.

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 04/12/2018 - 5:58pm

In “A Higher Loyalty,” the former F.B.I. director doesn’t mince words in describing his interactions with President Trump: “This president is unethical, and untethered to truth.”

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