A Day At The Beach Won't Be The Same After 'The World In A Grain'
Journalist Vince Beiser's no-nonsense writing makes light reading of a grim subject, the past and future of sand, but it paints a telling picture of how great a problem lies before us.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
'His Favorites' Is An Artful Argument For #MeToo — And More
Kate Walbert's new novel follows a young woman who goes to a posh boarding school after tragedy upends her life — only to find she's no safer there than she was at home.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: On the Ground in Afghanistan and Iraq
C.J. Chivers’s “The Fighters” provides gut-wrenching descriptions of the battles in the Middle East
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Essay: The Virtues of Shelf-lessness
Sloane Crosley makes the case for a nontraditional, at-home alternative to the Dewey Decimal System.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Match Book: Aspiring Memoirist Seeking Famous Writers’ Letters and Essays for Inspiration
From Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield to Yiyun Li and Heidi Julavits, Do Diarists Ever Truly Reveal Themselves?
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Why We Should Never Expect to Discover Sentient Ice Cubes
Charles S. Cockell’s “The Equations of Life” argues that physics constrains evolution so that life is not endlessly variable, but actually quite predictable.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
With Wit And Sadness, 'Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine' Has Echoes Of Salinger
Critic Maureen Corrigan says Kevin Wilson's funny, raw, beautiful writing reminds her of J. D. Salinger. He starts with a goofy premise and then draws deep emotional truths.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a Tree
David Quammen has written a sprawling history of evolutionary genetics, “The Tangled Tree,” that complicates familiar notions of how species evolved.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
As Barnes & Noble Struggles to Find Footing, Founder Takes Heat
Sales are falling and critics say the company lacks a direction, sometimes seeming to give priority to sales of gifts and tchotchkes over books.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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