Plutocracy, Not Theocracy Compels The Handmaids Of 'The Farm'
Joanne Ramos builds her own experience into this story of a young Filipino woman who ends up on a seemingly cushy "gestational retreat" where women — called "hosts" — carry babies for rich families.
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'Pride, Prejudice, And Other Flavors' Is More Than Just Reheated Austen
Sonali Dev's new novel — about an Indian American surgeon who falls for a multiracial British chef — has elements of Austen's classic, but it's also a sensitive examination of class and privilege.
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Nonfiction: A New Mom, Her Nannies and the Often Exploitive Labor of Motherhood
“Women’s Work,” by Megan Stack, a former foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, is an unflinching look at the women who maintained her home, took care of her children and allowed her to write a book.
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Nonfiction: Rick Atkinson’s Savage American Revolution
“The British Are Coming” is a vivid, down-to-earth rendering of a conflict too often seen through rose-colored glasses.
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Nonfiction: The Forgotten History of the Chinese Who Helped Build America’s Railroads
Gordon H. Chang’s “Ghosts of Gold Mountain” recalls the contribution 19th-century Chinese immigrants made to the American economy.
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Nonfiction: An Economist Who Believes Only Government Can Save Capitalism
In “People, Power, and Profits” Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that more state involvement in the economy is part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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'The Man They Wanted Me To Be' Puts An Individual Experience In Broader Context
Jared Yates Sexton's book is critically important to our historical moment: It crackles with intensity and refuses to allow the reader to look away from the blight that toxic masculinity has wrought.
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From Our Archives: Revisiting the Ponzi Scheme in Mitchell Zuckoff’s ‘Ponzi’s Scheme’
In the 2005 book “Ponzi’s Scheme,” Mitchell Zuckoff tells the story of Charles Ponzi, who launched a successful and infamous money-swindling scheme in the early 1920s.
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New in Paperback: ‘How to Change Your Mind,’ ‘Severance’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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New & Noteworthy
Recent books of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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