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A Mother Who Tries to Rescue Her Sons From the Maws of War

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 5:00am

By Steven Lee Myers

In “Lara’s Story,” the Polish journalist Wojciech Jagielski recounts how one woman went searching in Syria for a son who had succumbed to radical Islam.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Welcome to the Ruthless, Cutthroat World of Paleoanthropology

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 5:00am

By Steve Brusatte

Two new books, Kermit Pattison’s “Fossil Men” and Meave Leakey’s “The Sediments of Time,” offer a glimpse into the adventurous world of the men and women searching for our origins.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

New & Noteworthy, From Astrophysics to Reading Nabokov

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 5:00am

A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

5 Picture Books About Civil Rights

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 12:06am

By Leah Henderson

From “the father of the Underground Railroad” to the first woman vice president, these Black action figures are poetry in motion.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

'Tomorrow Will Be Better': Betty Smith's 'Rediscovered' Novel Is A Genuine Treasure

Monday, December 21, 2020 - 1:52pm

By Maureen Corrigan

Smith's 1948 follow-up to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a forgotten novel that deserves to be exhumed. The things that made it an awkward response to its predecessor make it more intriguing now.

Source: NPR Book Reviews

Agents of Change

Friday, December 18, 2020 - 4:13pm

Kerri Greenidge discusses two books about African-Americans in the years before the Civil War, and Neal Gabler talks about “Catching the Wind,” his biography of Edward Kennedy.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews