Nonfiction: A Critic Who Worships Literature, and Defends His Faith Accordingly
In his passionate new essay collection, “American Audacity,” William Giraldi fiercely emphasizes the cultural importance of high literary standards.
Nonfiction: The Street Where ‘They Do Strange Things’
Alice Sparberg Alexiou’s history of the Bowery, “Devil’s Mile,” is a narrative not only of the famous street but of New York City as well.
'Flights' Is A Trip, If You Like Wandering Off The Edges Of The Map
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's new scollection is a cabinet of curiosities, surreal, loosely connected stories about the human body, about movement, about two-headed calves and saint's relics.
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Fiction: Two New Novels Expose the Fracturing of the American Nuclear Family, From Midcentury to Today
Cherise Wolas’s “The Family Tabor” and Rick Gekoski’s “A Long Island Story” both witness the unraveling of prominent Jewish families.
#9: This Book Is a Planetarium: And Other Extraordinary Pop-Up Contraptions
This Book Is a Planetarium: And Other Extraordinary Pop-Up Contraptions
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The Shortlist: Eats of Eden
Sink your teeth into three tasty new food memoirs — Rick Bragg’s “The Best Cook in the World,” Edward Lee’s “Buttermilk Graffiti” and Lidia Bastianich’s “My American Dream.”
A Day At The Beach Won't Be The Same After 'The World In A Grain'
Journalist Vince Beiser's no-nonsense writing makes light reading of a grim subject, the past and future of sand, but it paints a telling picture of how great a problem lies before us.
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'His Favorites' Is An Artful Argument For #MeToo — And More
Kate Walbert's new novel follows a young woman who goes to a posh boarding school after tragedy upends her life — only to find she's no safer there than she was at home.
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Nonfiction: On the Ground in Afghanistan and Iraq
C.J. Chivers’s “The Fighters” provides gut-wrenching descriptions of the battles in the Middle East
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: The Virtues of Shelf-lessness
Sloane Crosley makes the case for a nontraditional, at-home alternative to the Dewey Decimal System.
Match Book: Aspiring Memoirist Seeking Famous Writers’ Letters and Essays for Inspiration
From Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield to Yiyun Li and Heidi Julavits, Do Diarists Ever Truly Reveal Themselves?
#8: Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
Omarosa Manigault Newman (Author)
Release Date: August 14, 2018
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Nonfiction: Why We Should Never Expect to Discover Sentient Ice Cubes
Charles S. Cockell’s “The Equations of Life” argues that physics constrains evolution so that life is not endlessly variable, but actually quite predictable.
With Wit And Sadness, 'Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine' Has Echoes Of Salinger
Critic Maureen Corrigan says Kevin Wilson's funny, raw, beautiful writing reminds her of J. D. Salinger. He starts with a goofy premise and then draws deep emotional truths.
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#4: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
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Nonfiction: A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree
David Quammen has written a sprawling history of evolutionary genetics, “The Tangled Tree,” that complicates familiar notions of how species evolved.
The death of Superman [DVD]
Author: Liu, Sam, film director. O'Connell, Jerry, 1974- actor. Romijn, Rebecca, 1972- actor. Wilson, Rainn, 1966- actor. Dawson, Rosario, actor.
Published: 2018
Call Number: DEATH
Format: Video disc
Summary: When an unstoppable monster called Doomsday threatens Metropolis and the people he loves, Superman sacrifices himself to destroy it.
Published: 2018
Call Number: DEATH
Format: Video disc
Summary: When an unstoppable monster called Doomsday threatens Metropolis and the people he loves, Superman sacrifices himself to destroy it.
The tunnel, vengeance [DVD]. Season 3
Author: Engström, Anders, 1962- television director. Bannier, Gilles, television director. Di Girolamo, Emilia, screenwriter. Ironside, Louise, screenwriter. Crichton, Jamie, screenwriter.
Published: 2018
Call Number: TUNNEL SEASON 3 DISC 1-2
Format: Video disc
Summary: The emotionally charged finale of the acclaimed bilingual crime thriller reunites Stephen Dillane with Clemence Poesy for the last outing of the unlikely Anglo-French partnership. Set amidst mid-Brexit hysteria, an escalating refugee crisis, and the increasing threat of terror from disenfranchised, exiled souls on whom society has turned its back.
Published: 2018
Call Number: TUNNEL SEASON 3 DISC 1-2
Format: Video disc
Summary: The emotionally charged finale of the acclaimed bilingual crime thriller reunites Stephen Dillane with Clemence Poesy for the last outing of the unlikely Anglo-French partnership. Set amidst mid-Brexit hysteria, an escalating refugee crisis, and the increasing threat of terror from disenfranchised, exiled souls on whom society has turned its back.
Wildling [DVD]
Author: Böhm, Fritz, film director, screenwriter. Eder, Florian, screenwriter. Rattray, Celine, 1975- film producer. Styler, Trudie, film producer. Ubben, Charlotte, film producer.
Published: 2018
Call Number: WILDING
Format: Video disc
Summary: A teenage girl's coming-of-age arrives with a terrifying twist in this spellbinding take on the werewolf legend. Since birth, Anna has been raised in isolation by a man she knows only as Daddy. He has done everything possible to conceal the truth about her origins from her. But when the teenage Anna is suddenly thrust into the real world under the protection of no-nonsense police officer Ellen, it soon becomes clear that she is far from ordinary. Unable to adjust to a normal life, Anna finds herself drawn instead to the wild freedom of the forest while struggling to resist the growing bloodlust that has awakened inside her. This moodily atmospheric thriller combines supernatural scares with a myth-like tale of self-discovery.
Published: 2018
Call Number: WILDING
Format: Video disc
Summary: A teenage girl's coming-of-age arrives with a terrifying twist in this spellbinding take on the werewolf legend. Since birth, Anna has been raised in isolation by a man she knows only as Daddy. He has done everything possible to conceal the truth about her origins from her. But when the teenage Anna is suddenly thrust into the real world under the protection of no-nonsense police officer Ellen, it soon becomes clear that she is far from ordinary. Unable to adjust to a normal life, Anna finds herself drawn instead to the wild freedom of the forest while struggling to resist the growing bloodlust that has awakened inside her. This moodily atmospheric thriller combines supernatural scares with a myth-like tale of self-discovery.
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