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“The Wizard and the Prophet,” Charles C. Mann’s new double biography of William Vogt and Norman Borlaug, presents the essential debate of environmentalism.
The author of “The Crossover” is looking for risky, unconventional children’s books.
Whether or not you’re nursing a heartbreak, these tales of unsettled passions will appeal to the romantic in all of us.
Two new books by virtual reality experts, Jaron Lanier and Jeremy Bailenson, describe how the technology will change us.
Jon McGregor’s “Reservoir 13” looks beneath the surface of ordinary lives over the course of a dozen-plus years.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
“That’s What She Said,” by the former USA Today editor in chief Joanne Lipman, tackles gender politics at work with sympathy and reams of data.
We have the “beach read” and the “airplane read,” but what about those books best suited for the subway?
Based on a true story, Tom Malmquist’s novel “In Every Moment We Are Still Alive” depicts a father struggling to cope with a tragic loss.
Using her own story as a cautionary tale, the actress — who accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault last fall — lays out the ways the entertainment industry fails young women.
The Trump administration has removed protections for 200,000 Salvadorans who have been allowed to live here legally since 2001.
David Frum talks about “Trumpocracy,” and Helen Thorpe discusses “The Newcomers.”
In Craig Cliff’s first novel, “The Mannequin Makers,” he tells a multigenerational story about an island shaped by its isolation.
In “Here in Berlin,” the Cuban-American novelist Cristina García uses a chorus of voices to explore the long, ghostly reach of Germany’s history.
David Szalay’s debut, “London and the South-East,” published in Britain nearly a decade ago, takes a resonant look at a salesman’s darkly comic life.
Yan Lianke’s pair of novellas, “The Years, Months, Days,” paints a darkly satirical portrait of stranded characters adrift in a depraved society.
Hanif Kureishi’s narrator in “The Nothing” may be old and infirm, but he can still experience lust and jealousy. And how.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Allan Nevins on Henry Hazlitt.
Even his friends were surprised by the range of the legendary former Random House publisher Howard Kaminsky’s books, from highbrow novels to “The Art of the Deal.”
Quarreling animals, a kingdom of segregated factions, and a gifted outsider who’s cruelly shunned in “The Lost Rainforest: Mez’s Magic,” “The Unicorn Quest” and “The Book of Boy.”
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