Nonfiction: How Silicon Valley Turned Into ‘Brotopia’
Emily Chang examines a tech culture that has become a boys’ club, hostile and averse to women.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Books of The Times: A New Biography Traces Tiger Woods’s Mythical Rise and Fall
Like a pair of supersleuths, Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian reconstruct the golfer’s life and offer new angles on old stories.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Science’s Invisible Women
Two new books, Patricia Fara’s “A Lab of One’s Own” and Claire L. Evans’s “Broad Band,” put women back into the history of science.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Come-Ons, Takedowns and Insults: What It’s Like to Write Comedy as a Woman
In “Just the Funny Parts,” Nell Scovell — who’s crafted jokes for everyone from David Letterman to President Obama — describes the toxic misogyny she’s endured.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Essay: Before #MeToo, There Was Catharine A. MacKinnon and Her Book ‘Sexual Harassment of Working Women’
Why did it take nearly four decades for the world to realize that she was right?
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
'The Sparsholt Affair' Finds Truth Somewhere Between Satire And Sentiment
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst's latest chronicles changing attitudes towards homosexuality in Britain through the stories of a closeted gay man — and later, his son — in the decades after World War II.
(Image credit: Eslah Attar/NPR)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Book Review Podcast: Impeachment, Then and Now
Cass R. Sunstein talks about “Impeachment: A Citizen’s Guide” and “Can It Happen Here?”; and Kathryn Hughes discusses “Victorians Undone.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Inside the List: Is Your Plane About to Crash? Write a Farewell Note and Eat It
The liquids in your stomach may help the note survive the crash, novelist Brad Meltzer says. That’s just one thing he learned while researching his new novel, “The Escape Artist.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: impeachment.
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