Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him?
In “The Corrosion of Conservatism,” Max Boot explains why, after many years, he changed his politics.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Punks Not Dead,' And Neither Is This Intrepid Granny
David Barnett and Martin Simmonds' comic about a troubled teen haunted by the ghost of Sid Vicious really gets going when it introduces centenarian (but immortal) ghost-buster Dorothy Culpepper.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
By the Book: Elaine Pagels: By the Book
The scholar and author, most recently, of “Why Religion?” tends to avoid reading science fiction: “Religious traditions already are packed with fantasy stories.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Thinking Clearly About Immigration
Reihan Salam’s “Melting Pot or Civil War?” tries to lower the temperature of our heated immigration debate.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Essay: What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future
Alec Nevala-Lee considers the science fiction writer’s concept of “psychohistory,” a fictional method for predicting the future dreamed up during turbulent times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit
“We Are the Nerds,” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, tells the story of the popular internet platform whose unfettered embrace of free expression has proved controversial.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Let The People See': It Took Courage To Keep Emmett Till's Memory Alive
Historian Elliott J. Gorn's new book revisits the 1955 death and public funeral of the African-American teen. Critic Maureen Corrigan says it's a timely story about the fragility of collective memory.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
'The Proposal' Knocks It Out Of The Park
Jasmine Guillory's new romance kicks off with her heroine rejecting an over-the-top public proposal at a ball game — luckily, there's a hot, sensitive doctor on hand to help her with the backlash.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: The Founders Look at Modern America
Joseph J. Ellis’s “American Dialogue” views the present through the past.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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