The Alarming Rise of Peter Thiel, Tech Mogul and Political Provocateur
In a revealing new biography, “The Contrarian,” the journalist Max Chafkin charts Thiel’s ascendancy in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., as a driven man drawn to far-right causes and beliefs.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Two of America’s Leading Historians Look at the Nation’s Founding Once Again — to Understand It in All Its Complexity
Joseph J. Ellis’s “The Cause” and Gordon S. Wood’s “Power and Liberty” argue that the Constitution was a necessary compromise.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Anne-Marie Slaughter Explains What She Has Learned From a Long Career of Public Service
Slaughter’s “Renewal” looks at how a personal transformation can lead to broader social change.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Richard Powers Spins A Smaller, Sadder Story In 'Bewilderment'
Powers climbs down from the treetops of The Overstory in his latest novel, to tell the story of a widowed father and his troubled son who head into the wilderness to try to figure out their lives.
(Image credit: W.W. Norton & Company)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
In Richard Powers’s New Novel, Hope for a Grieving Kid and Planet May Lurk in the Human Brain
The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest novel, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human race.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Back to the Future, With Books Instead of a DeLorean
Three new historical novels remind us how what happened in days, and centuries, gone by connects to the world today.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
An Irreverent Novel Trains Its Gaze on Refugees and Their Rescuers
“The Wrong End of the Telescope,” by the Lebanese American writer Rabih Alameddine, examines the relationship between Middle Eastern refugees and their Western rescuers with clear eyes and trenchant humor.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Beasts and Baseball: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
“The Body Scout,” “Light From Uncommon Stars” and “No Gods, No Monsters” tell stories of genetic dystopias, musical gifts and mythic creatures.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
A History of Medical Innovation That Doesn’t Ignore the Side Effects
In “You Bet Your Life,” Paul A. Offit looks at advances that have prolonged life, from chemotherapy to the Covid vaccine, and the difficult, even deadly, paths to arrive at them.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Make This 'Fortnight in September' Your Pandemic Escape
R.C. Sherriff's recently reissued 1931 novel, which follows a British family on their two-week holiday, is a reflection on how time changes shape in periods like a vacation — or even a pandemic.
(Image credit: Simon & Schuster)
Source: NPR Book Reviews
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