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The Book Review Podcast: Parenting in the Age of Omnipresent Screens

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 12:13pm

Pamela Druckerman discusses “The Art of Screen Time” and “Be the Parent, Please,” and Ben Austen talks about “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing.”

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

In 'A Higher Loyalty,' James Comey Describes An 'Unethical, Untethered' President

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 8:35am

By Ron Elving

NPR's Ron Elving says the former FBI director's new memoir is unlikely to convert the committed partisans on either side. Instead, it may well cause further entrenchment.

(Image credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Source: NPR Book Reviews

An Illustrated Tribute to ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By SERGIO GARCIA SANCHEZ

Sergio García Sánchez reimagines the 19th-century tale of a puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By KAREN KARBO

Susan Ronald’s “A Dangerous Woman” is an energetic biography of Florence Gould and a terrific window into the life of the superaffluent.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By TIMOTHY NAFTALI

Benn Steil’s “The Marshall Plan” depicts the complicated politics and colorful cast of statesmen, spies and economists behind America’s intervention in midcentury Europe.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By RICHARD ROTHSTEIN

Ben Austen’s “High-Risers” assesses the dire consequences of segregated low-income residential developments across the nation.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

The Shortlist: How Endangered Is American Democracy?

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By ARI BERMAN

Four new books discuss current threats to our political system.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Fiction: In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By MARTHA SOUTHGATE

John Edgar Wideman brings a potent mix of the personal, political and historical to his new collection, “American Histories.”

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Paperback Row

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By JOUMANA KHATIB

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Inside the List: Turning Basketball Lovers Into Book Lovers, a Stanza at a Time

Friday, April 13, 2018 - 5:00am

By TINA JORDAN

Kwame Alexander’s last novel — “The Crossover,” a Newbery-winning, hip-hop- inflected tale of sports-loving twin boys — was written in verse. So is his new one, a prequel called “Rebound.”

Source: NY Times Book Reviews