2 Decades In The Making, 'Green Sun' Is Worth The Wait
Kent Anderson's new novel is a sequel to 1997's Night Dogs, and it picks up with antihero Hanson, once an English teacher, now working as a police officer in Oakland — bad attitude entirely intact.
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Books of The Times: Steven Pinker Wants You to Know Humanity Is Doing Fine. Just Don’t Ask About Individual Humans.
In “Enlightenment Now,” the psychologist continues his argument that conditions are improving for the species as a whole.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump
“But the deep subject of this book, what holds its disparate bits together, is not celebrity. It’s professionalism,” A.O. Scott writes.
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Essay: When Writing a Book Leaves a (Literal) Mark on Its Author
Jane Kamensky published a biography of John Singleton Copley. Then she got a tattoo of his art.
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Medicine Can Soothe a Troubled Mind, but Not Without Costs
In “Blue Dreams,” the psychologist Lauren Slater explores the intersection of personality and chemistry by way of her own history with antidepressants.
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More Than Just Nostalgia, 'Time Pieces' Is A Multilayered Memoir Of Dublin
Irish writer John Banville's new book is a shimmering, frequently elusive book about a city, but also an inquiry into memory, shifting attention, and above all time as it passes and becomes the past.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Bringing Down a Media Empire
In “Conspiracy,” Ryan Holiday describes the blockbuster case that killed Gawker.
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Nonfiction: A Different Perspective on the Border
In his memoir, “The Line Becomes a River,” Francisco Cantú argues that understanding immigration required him to be a Border Patrol agent.
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Fiction: A Debut Novel Upends the Myth of Apollo and Daphne
“Daphne,” by Will Boast, poses the universal human question of whether it is better to feel pain or to feel nothing at all.
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.
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