Sketchbook | Graphic Review: A Graphic Tribute to a Classic Work of Paleontological Literature
The children’s book author and illustrator David Nytra draws a review of William E. Scheele’s “Prehistoric Animals.”
The Book Review: Rethinking the ‘Tangled Tree’ of Life
“We are composites of various creatures,” David Quammen says. “We are mosaics.”
Children’s Books: Charming, Plucky Picture Books That Ease Back-to-Class Jitters
The very best kids’ books — like these — help the under-10 set work through their fears.
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species.”
Inside the List: ‘It’s So Hard for Parents to Imagine Their Children Shooting Up Heroin’: Beth Macy on ‘Dopesick’
Back in 2012, Macy, a journalist, wrote articles about suburban heroin addiction. In a new book she’s widened her lens, exploring the roots of the national opioid crisis.
New in Paperback: ‘Democracy in Chains,’ ‘Black Mad Wheel’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: A Writer’s Trip Into the Amazon Reveals Brazil and Himself
Chris Feliciano Arnold’s “The Third Bank of the River” is a reported and personal look at the problems plaguing the Amazon and its people.
Nonfictin: What Role Do Teachers Play in Education?
Andrea Gabor’s “After the Education Wars” looks at efforts to reform the classroom through technology and standardized testing.
Crime: From a Marsh to a Mountain, Crime Fiction Heads Outdoors
Marilyn Stasio’s selections take readers to a North Carolina swamp, a peak in Minnesota and a jungle in Laos, with a pit stop at a California beach.
Fiction: Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel
In “Never Anyone but You,” Rupert Thomson reimagines the lives of the Surrealist icons Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Nonfiction: Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World
In “Rising,” Elizabeth Rush surveys the new contours of an America already changed by rising waters.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
#5: House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
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#9: Rich People Problems: A Novel (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy)
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Nonfiction: An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life
Tracy Franz’s “My Year of Dirt and Water” considers the paradoxical experience of being married to a Buddhist monk, cloistered in a Japanese temple.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Karel Capek
“This is the power of “War With the Newts”: It leaves us staring with bewilderment at the ways that we — with our tiny acts of greed and insensitivity and willful blindness — did all this.”
Light Reading: Using the Hashtag #ShareYourRejection, Writers Are Tweeting about Their Rocky Paths to Publication
It’s not all glamour and prizes.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
#8: China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy)
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By the Book: Rebecca Solnit: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the essay collection “Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises” keeps an eye on the “daily eruptions of the internet”: “Like a lot of us, I’m hypervigilant about the crazy stuff going on.”
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