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Help Desk: Adversity Needn’t Thwart or Define You. Here’s How to Cope.

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
By JUDITH NEWMAN
Elizabeth Smart’s “Where There’s Hope” offers advice on moving past trauma. Books by a psychologist, a pediatrician and a mother add more perspective.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Fiction: In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
By CLAIRE JARVIS
In the third installment of a quartet of books addressed to his youngest child, the Norwegian author recounts a medical emergency and its aftermath.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Fiction: Her Lover May Not Exist, but Her Doubts About the Patriarchy Are Real

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
By LEAH HAGER COHEN
Helen Weinzweig’s novel “Basic Black With Pearls” traces a woman’s increasingly fantastical search for an identity beyond marriage and motherhood.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Crime: Hate Thy Neighbor. Or Maybe Just Kill Him.

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
By MARILYN STASIO
Whether it’s in Alaska or upstate New York, a small town can be distinctly deadly, as demonstrated by the novels in Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: Does Vladimir Putin Speak for the Russian People?

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
By DANIEL BEER
Michael McFaul’s memoir of his years as ambassador to Russia, “From Cold War to Hot Peace,” recounts a campaign against the United States and the West.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Inside the List: Today’s Best-Seller Lists Look a Lot Like The Ones from 15 Years Ago

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
By TINA JORDAN
Weisberger, Clinton, Patterson, Grisham, Roberts: The names topping the lists in 2003 are the same ones we’re seeing in 2018.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: A Youthful, Lovesick Journey Revealed in a Sketchbook

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
By HELEN SHAW
Craig Thompson’s “Carnet de Voyage” is a reissued version of his travel sketchbook as the author of “Blankets” made his way through Europe and Morocco.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: After His Brother Commits Murder, a Journalist Revisits Their Childhood

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
By JOHN ELIGON
In his searching memoir, “My Brother Moochie,” Issac Bailey, a longtime journalist, considers the fallout on his family of his oldest brother’s crime.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Letters to the Editor

Friday, July 6, 2018 - 5:00am
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, July 5, 2018 - 3:17pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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