The Restless, Eclectic and Contradictory Passions of Edward Said
“Places of Mind,” a new biography by Timothy Brennan, a former student, shows one of America’s most distinguished postwar intellectuals to have been a man of deep complexity.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Book That Taught Tammy Duckworth How to Mummify Human Remains
“I haven’t found a use for that yet, but you never know.”
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Walter Isaacson’s New Book Celebrates Three Notable Women
“The Code Breaker” is about a world-changing scientist and dedicated to two legends of the publishing industry.
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In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort
Our poetry columnist writes about Valerie Mejer Caso’s “Edinburgh Notebook” and other works of vicarious grief.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy, From Obamacare to Women in Television
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Book Review: ‘Life’s Edge,’ by Carl Zimmer
In “Life’s Edge,” Carl Zimmer examines the many scientific attempts to define what it is that exactly constitutes life.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
What Is Amazon Doing to Our Country?
In “Fulfillment,” Alec MacGillis tours America to understand how one company’s culture and capitalistic impulses are seeping into our way of life.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Evils Lurking Beneath a City’s Centuries-Old Canals
In Donna Leon’s 30th Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, “Transient Desires,” the setting — Venice — is the most important character of all.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Farcical 'Life Of The Mind' Skewers Academic Life And Adjunct 'Hell'
A graduate student is teaching four courses while also trying to finish a dissertation. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Christine Smallwood's new novel one of the wittiest she's read in a long time.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
A Visceral and Fabulist Short Story Collection Filled With Roots, Inheritance and Blood
Carribean Fragoza’s new collection, “Eat the Mouth That Feeds You,” moves between horror and the real.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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