In 'Stony The Road,' Henry Louis Gates Jr. Looks At The Period After Reconstruction
In his new book, the literary scholar presents an absorbing, necessary look at the "Redemption" era, in which the hard-fought gains of African-Americans were rolled back by embittered Southern whites.
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Nonfiction: Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster
Adam Higginbotham’s “Midnight in Chernobyl” explores the causes of the Chernobyl explosion, and Kate Brown’s “Manual for Survival” considers the consequences.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: The Cracking of a Cold, Cold Case
In his true-crime epic, “The Last Stone,” Mark Bowden follows detectives as they try to solve the 1975 disappearance of two Maryland sisters.
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Nonfiction: Why Are We Feeling So Bad When Life Is So Good? Two Books Want Us to Accentuate the Positive
“The Right Side of History,” by Ben Shapiro, and “Clear and Present Safety,” by Michael A. Cohen and Micah Zenko, declare current pessimism is totally overblown.
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Poetry: A Poetic Body of Work Grapples With the Physical Body at Risk
In “The Tradition,” Jericho Brown witnesses and celebrates vulnerability and resilience in a country that too often scorns or condemns them.
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Fiction: A Peerless Chronicler of the 1970s and ’80s Turns Her Gaze on Generation Y
Ann Beattie’s new novel, “A Wonderful Stroke of Luck,” follows its protagonist from prep school in 2001 into his 30s today.
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Nonfiction: Skin and Bones, Hold the Skin: An Author Considers Our Inner Scaffolding
Brian Switek’s “Skeleton Keys” takes a close look at our 206 bones and how they allow us to “stomp, fly, swim, slither, dig, run.”
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'Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss' Is Smart, Comforting Sentiment
Rajeev Balasubramanyam's fourth novel follows a cantankerous yet sympathetic economics professor whose life is upended after he fails yet again to win a Nobel Prize (among other, lesser catastrophes).
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'The Matriarch' Presents Barbara Bush As Indispensable To Two Bush Presidencies
Beyond the juicy bits, journalist Susan Page paints a larger portrait of one of the more underappreciated, least understood figures of the last century — one with both insecurities and influence.
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The Shortlist: Three Books Examine Our Changing Earth
From melting ice to diminishing populations, these books look at the effects of climate change and humans’ shifting relationship with our planet.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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