Match Book: Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips?
For long trips with adult passengers and shorter trips with kids, our columnist recommends great audiobooks to hold drivers’ attention.
Nonfiction: The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth.
Apple’s culture of reverence and secrecy is no match for Brian Merchant in “The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone.”
Nonfiction: How Uber and Airbnb Became Poster Children for the Disruption Economy
Three books reckon with pioneers of the sharing economy; a fourth considers their dark side.
Fiction: In Mexico’s Violent Drug World, a Priest’s Dilemma Over the Seal of Confession
Philip Caputo’s novel tells of an American priest who must decide whether to break the sanctity of confession to inform on narcos.
Q. and A.: Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The End of Advertising’
Andrew Essex discusses his new book about the fate of traditional advertising and what might replace it.
'Democracy In Chains' Traces The Rise Of American Libertarianism
Nancy MacLean's book stretches back to 19th century Vice President — and ardent secessionist — John C. Calhoun to find the roots of modern libertarianism, which she calls a threat to democracy.
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In The Refrains Of 'Arabia Felix,' A Reminder: Often The End Is Just A Start
Of the scholars who set out on a 1761 quest to Yemen, only one came back alive. But don't let their looming doom distract from the drama in Thorkild Hansen's hybrid of history, fiction and travelogue.
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'The Changeling' Is, Itself, A Changeling Of A Book
Victor LaValle's story of a rare book dealer whose life is torn apart after his wife commits an act of violence and vanishes is by turns enchanting, horrifying, infuriating and heartbreaking.
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The Book Review Podcast: China’s World
Howard W. French talks about “Everything Under the Heavens,” and Judith Newman discusses new books about how to grieve and how to die.
Newsbook: Three Books on Puerto Rico’s Statehood vs. Independence Debate
As politicians debate the merits of statehood before Congress, here are three books that shed light on the various visions for Puerto Rico’s future.
Fast Success for a Second Novel Two Decades in the Making
Arundhati Roy’s novel “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,” the long-awaited follow-up to “The God of Small Things,” lands at No. 7 in hardcover fiction.
Open Book: A Life in Art
Recorded conversations between artist and curator frame a memoir.
Nonfiction: Machiavelli: Good Guy or Bad? This Biography Argues for the Former
In “Be Like the Fox,” Erica Benner sees Machiavelli as an enemy of autocratic rule who hid his lifelong belief in the people’s will and rule by law.
Children’s Books: What Not to Tell the Kids When the Goldfish Dies, and Other Lessons from Pet Picture Books
A dead goldfish and a botched cover-up, an imaginary pet parakeet — pet-focused picture books help kids make sense of life and loss.
Children’s Books: A Teenager’s Life in the Aftermath of Her Mother’s Sudden Death
In Carol Weston’s perceptive, funny and moving “Speed of Life,” a 14-year-old heroine faces the loss of her mother and her dad’s new dating life.
Paperback Row: Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Children’s Books: In Philip Pullman’s First Graphic Novel, a Ghost Ship Travels Through Time
In “The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship,” a battered vessel becomes unstuck in time after an experiment goes awry.
Nonfiction: How Washington Planned for a Cold-War Apocalypse
Macabre anecdotes aside, Garrett M. Graff’s “Raven Rock” is at heart a history of the Cold War and its lasting effects on American politics.
Nonfiction: He Built Roads. He Oversaw Mines. He Shrank the Deficit. He Was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
As Rüdiger Safranski’s “Goethe: Life as a Work of Art” reveals, when the prolific writer wasn’t producing manuscripts, he was applying his talents to the municipal good.
Fiction: Mind Reading, Repressed Memories and the Superhero Brainstorm
Beneath its twisty plots, Fiona Maazel’s novel “A Little More Human” challenges our quest for physical and cognitive self-improvement.
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