Monday, January 28, 2019 - 2:00pm
By LIESL SCHILLINGER
Roberto Bolaño’s coming-of-age tale “The Spirit of Science Fiction,” written around 1984, foreshadows the Chilean author’s epic 1998 breakthrough, “The Savage Detectives.”
Monday, January 28, 2019 - 12:28pm
By Maureen Corrigan
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler loves basketball but struggles to fit in with her peers. Critic Maureen Corrigan says Dana Czapnik's protagonist reminded her of Francie from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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Monday, January 28, 2019 - 5:01am
By Adam Frank
Douglas Rushkoff's knowledge of digital technology shines in his new book, horrifying us with the capacities of the machines we've built — and the ways they have been used against us.
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Monday, January 28, 2019 - 5:00am
Want to escape the real-life suspense novel we’re living in these days? Check out these six new whodunits.
Sunday, January 27, 2019 - 11:00am
By JOHN WILLIAMS
Andrew S. Curran talks about “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely,” his new book about the 18th-century French philosopher whose greatest works were discovered — as he intended — after his death.
Sunday, January 27, 2019 - 7:00am
By Jason Sheehan
In All Systems Red, Martha Wells hides a delicate, nuanced, character-driven story under a veneer of robot fights and space murder — and the titular Murderbot is the character doing the driving.
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Saturday, January 26, 2019 - 10:00am
By Bethanne Patrick
Fiona Barton's third Kate Waters mystery finds our reporter on the trail of two young girls who've gone missing while backpacking in Thailand — but the case is overcomplicated by its many characters.
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Saturday, January 26, 2019 - 7:00am
By Etelka Lehoczky
Author Aleš Kot and artist Tradd Moore create a zippy, dizzily excessive vision of a future where the entertainment industry has merged with law enforcement after nuclear catastrophe and war.
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Friday, January 25, 2019 - 6:04pm
Shapiro talks about her new best-selling memoir, and David Treuer discusses “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.”
Friday, January 25, 2019 - 4:18pm
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
The division published best-selling books by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Trevor Noah and more. Its closing is the latest move by Penguin Random House to streamline operations.