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Fiction: What Would It Be Like to Be 400 Years Old?

Friday, February 16, 2018 - 5:00am
By CLARE CLARK
In Matt Haig’s new novel, “How to Stop Time,” the narrator — born in 1581, and still alive today — seems to be having a midlife crisis.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Paperback Row

Friday, February 16, 2018 - 5:00am
By JOUMANA KHATIB
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Children’s Books: One Part Fantasy, One Part Reality Is a Child’s Perfect Formula

Friday, February 16, 2018 - 5:00am
By CATHERINE KEYSER
In the Dory Fantasmagory books, Abby Hanlon finds the humor — and the coping strategies — in a young heroine’s shifting line between imagination and reality.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Children’s Books: Great New Books for a Child Just Learning to Read

Friday, February 16, 2018 - 5:00am
By VICTORIA JAMIESON
Clever, beautifully illustrated new books from Brian Selznick, Sara Varon and Bryan Collier that are easy to read — and to love.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Ivory Tower: Science’s Inference Problem: When Data Doesn’t Mean What We Think It Does

Friday, February 16, 2018 - 5:00am
By JAMES RYERSON
Three new books on the challenge of drawing confident conclusions from an uncertain world.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Letters to the Editor

Friday, February 16, 2018 - 5:00am
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Nonfiction: Arrested at 12, She’s Now an Activist Fighting for Social Justice

Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 4:36pm
By LOVIA GYARKYE
Patrisse Khan-Cullors’s memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist,” recounts the life of a Black Lives Matter co-founder.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week

Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 12:05pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives

Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 11:50am
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Francine Prose on Ursula K. Le Guin.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


'Asymmetry' Is A Guide To Being Bigger Than Yourself

Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 7:00am
By Annalisa Quinn

At first, Lisa Halliday's novel seems too familiar: It's about a young would-be writer who has an affair with a famous older man. But partway through, it turns into something else, something new.

(Image credit: Eslah Attar/NPR)

Source: NPR Book Reviews


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