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Book Review: ‘The Ransomware Hunting Team,’ by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden

Monday, October 24, 2022 - 5:00am
By Josephine Wolff
In their new book, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden explain how a ragtag band of international tech nerds have defended the defenseless against cybercrime.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Song of the Cell,’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Monday, October 24, 2022 - 5:00am
By Jennifer Szalai
“The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s smallest structural and functional unit — and its implications for everything from immune therapy and in vitro fertilization to Covid-19.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Women of Rothschild,’ by Natalie Livingstone

Sunday, October 23, 2022 - 5:00am
By Miranda Seymour
A new biography by Natalie Livingstone focuses on several generations of the banking family’s wives and daughters, documenting their passions for politics, science and music, all abetted by wealth and social connections.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Elizabeth Hardwick’s Master Class on Literature and Life

Sunday, October 23, 2022 - 5:00am
By Maggie Doherty
In his elegiac memoir, “Come Back in September,” the novelist and critic Darryl Pinckney recalls his former writing teacher and lifelong friend, and the vibrant New York intellectual world they once inhabited.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Revolutionary,’ by Stacy Schiff

Saturday, October 22, 2022 - 5:00am
By Amy S. Greenberg
In “The Revolutionary,” Stacy Schiff presents an enthralling portrait of Samuel Adams, who, perhaps more than any other of America’s founders, set the country on its course toward independence.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Pachinko Parlor,” by Elisa Shua Dusapin

Saturday, October 22, 2022 - 5:00am
By Lily Meyer
The National Book Award-winning author and translator of “Winter in Sokcho” return with another quietly powerful tale of dislocation.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” by Ousmane K. Power-Greene

Saturday, October 22, 2022 - 5:00am
By Maya Binyam
In Ousmane K. Power-Greene’s “The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” a white supremacist kidnaps a Black academic and traps her on a Southern plantation.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About ‘The Gene’

Friday, October 21, 2022 - 10:22am
The oncologist and Pulitzer-winning science writer discusses his 2016 book about the history of genetics, and the novelist Kate Atkinson talks about her spy novel “Transcription.”
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


New Story Collections From T.C. Boyle, Andrea Barrett and Others

Friday, October 21, 2022 - 7:21am
By Justin Taylor
Short fiction by T.C. Boyle, Jane Campbell, Andrea Barrett and Peter Christopher.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


Book Review: ‘On Every Tide,’ by Sean Connolly

Friday, October 21, 2022 - 5:00am
By Fintan O’Toole
“On Every Tide,” by the historian Sean Connolly, traces the patterns — and staggering numbers — of Irish migration from the 19th century to the 21st.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews


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