Heroic Outcasts Who Reshaped America
James R. Gaines’s “The Fifties” describes a decade when opposition to a stifling national consensus was costly and courageous.
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11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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'Davos Man' is an angry, powerful look at economic inequality
New York Times writer Peter S. Goodman does not like Davos Man. At all. And his new book does an excellent job explaining why — focusing on the rich getting richer as the COVID-19 pandemic raged.
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Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous
“I was really disappointed when I read ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’” says the author of “The Making of Incarnation” and other novels. “But then I read his ‘Mother Night,’ and thought it was brilliant.”
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Reckoning With Joan Didion, the Archpriestess of Cool
Daphne Merkin examines her complicated feelings about Didion’s writing, iconic status and legacy.
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These Old Hands Have Written New Best Sellers
What do Jacqueline Woodson and Elizabeth George have in common? They’re both veteran authors whose books fly off the shelves.
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They Made the Most of the Opioid Crisis. Until They Didn’t.
In “The Hard Sell,” the journalist Evan Hughes tells the story of the rise and fall of Insys Therapeutics — and the larger pharmaceutical industry.
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Thoreau, Emerson and the Town Where Their Thoughts Took Root
“The Transcendentalists and Their World,” by Robert A. Gross, focuses on Concord, Mass.
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They Wanted to Write the History of Modern China. But How?
In the historian Jing Tsu’s “Kingdom of Characters,” the evolution of Chinese writing tells the story of the country’s past, present — and future.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
How the English Language Conquered the World
Rosemary Salomone’s “The Rise of English” looks at the economic, social and cultural impact of English around the world.
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