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Nonfiction: A Writer’s Trip Into the Amazon Reveals Brazil and Himself

Friday, August 17, 2018 - 5:00am
By ERNESTO LONDOÑO
Chris Feliciano Arnold’s “The Third Bank of the River” is a reported and personal look at the problems plaguing the Amazon and its people.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfictin: What Role Do Teachers Play in Education?

Friday, August 17, 2018 - 5:00am
By CATHY N. DAVIDSON
Andrea Gabor’s “After the Education Wars” looks at efforts to reform the classroom through technology and standardized testing.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Crime: From a Marsh to a Mountain, Crime Fiction Heads Outdoors

Friday, August 17, 2018 - 5:00am
By MARILYN STASIO
Marilyn Stasio’s selections take readers to a North Carolina swamp, a peak in Minnesota and a jungle in Laos, with a pit stop at a California beach.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Fiction: Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel

Friday, August 17, 2018 - 5:00am
By STACEY D’ERASMO
In “Never Anyone but You,” Rupert Thomson reimagines the lives of the Surrealist icons Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our World

Friday, August 17, 2018 - 5:00am
By DAVID BIELLO
In “Rising,” Elizabeth Rush surveys the new contours of an America already changed by rising waters.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Letters to the Editor

Friday, August 17, 2018 - 5:00am
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life

Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 3:00pm
By JANICE P. NIMURA
Tracy Franz’s “My Year of Dirt and Water” considers the paradoxical experience of being married to a Buddhist monk, cloistered in a Japanese temple.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


The Enthusiast: In Praise of Karel Capek

Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 2:19pm
By BEN DOLNICK
“This is the power of “War With the Newts”: It leaves us staring with bewilderment at the ways that we — with our tiny acts of greed and insensitivity and willful blindness — did all this.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Light Reading: Using the Hashtag #ShareYourRejection, Writers Are Tweeting about Their Rocky Paths to Publication

Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 1:51pm
It’s not all glamour and prizes.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 12:00pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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