Nonfiction: What Happened When Fracking Came to Town
Eliza Griswold’s new book, “Amity and Prosperity,” is an impassioned account of the devastating effects of fracking on a community in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: The Worst Drug Crisis in American History
Beth Macy’s “Dopesick” describes the opioid epidemic that is killing thousands every year.
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
Nonfiction: Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens
Mona Hanna-Attisha’s “What the Eyes Don’t See” traces her role in proving Flint had a crisis. Anna Clark’s “The Poisoned City” takes a broader, historical view. Both books are damning.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: An Astrophysical Approach to Our Environmental Crisis
In “Light of the Stars,” Adam Frank uses evidence of extraterrestrial life to illuminate the problem of climate change on Earth.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: On the Front Lines of Infertility
Two new memoirs — Elizabeth Katkin’s ‘Conceivability’ and Emma Brockes’s ‘An Excellent Choice’ — trace very different paths to motherhood.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'Garlandia' Is A Trippy, Visionary, Not Quite Sublime Graphic Novel
The big new collaboration between Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky is visually gorgeous, lush and virtuosic — but its story of a peaceful fantasy world threatened by a crisis feels generic.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Book Review Podcast: Drawing History
Hillary Chute talks about new graphic books that address serious issues, and Nicole Lamy discusses her Match Book column, in which she helps readers find books they’ll love.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: A Novel Chases Its Narrator on the Tour de France
Joe Mungo Reed’s “We Begin Our Ascent” is a novel about cycling, doping and the personal failings of a middling racer on the Tour.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: If the Bleak South Dakota Plains Don’t Break Them, Their Family Just Might
In Paula Saunders’s debut novel, “The Distance Home,” a stuttering, ballet-loving boy and his younger sister struggle to find their place in the world.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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