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- Printed in Beirut by Jabbour DouaihyA review of Printed in Beirut by Jabbour Douaihy at the Complete Review
- Babylon by Yasmina RezaA review of Babylon by Yasmina Reza at the Complete Review
- My Struggle: Book Six (The End) by Karl Ove KnausgaardA review of My Struggle: Book Six (The End) by Karl Ove Knausgaard at the Complete Review
- The Tears of the Black Man by Alain MabanckouA review of The Tears of the Black Man by Alain Mabanckou at the Complete Review
- Strike Your Heart by Amélie NothombA review of Strike Your Heart by Amélie Nothomb at the Complete Review
- People in the Room by Norah LangeA review of People in the Room by Norah Lange at the Complete Review
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam ToozeA review of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze at the Complete Review
- Trilogy by Jon FosseA review of Trilogy by Jon Fosse at the Complete Review
- Wakefulness (Trilogy - 1) by Jon FosseA review of Wakefulness (Trilogy - 1) by Jon Fosse at the Complete Review
- Olav's Dreams (Trilogy - 2) by Jon FosseA review of Olav's Dreams (Trilogy - 2) by Jon Fosse at the Complete Review
- Weariness (Trilogy - 3) by Jon FosseA review of Weariness (Trilogy - 3) by Jon Fosse at the Complete Review
- Der Mörder trinkt keine Milch by Johannes Mario SimmelA review of Der Mörder trinkt keine Milch by Johannes Mario Simmel at the Complete Review
- Man lebt nur zweimal by Johannes Mario SimmelA review of Man lebt nur zweimal by Johannes Mario Simmel at the Complete Review
- Desirable Body by Hubert HaddadA review of Desirable Body by Hubert Haddad at the Complete Review
- Kruso by Lutz SeilerA review of Kruso by Lutz Seiler at the Complete Review
- Document 1 by François BlaisA review of Document 1 by François Blais at the Complete Review
- Now the Night Begins by Alain GuiraudieA review of Now the Night Begins by Alain Guiraudie at the Complete Review
- An Untouched House by Willem Frederik HermansA review of An Untouched House by Willem Frederik Hermans at the Complete Review
- Onder professoren by Willem Frederik HermansA review of Onder professoren by Willem Frederik Hermans at the Complete Review
- Wishes by Georges PerecA review of Wishes by Georges Perec at the Complete Review
- A Spy in Time by Imraan CoovadiaA review of A Spy in Time by Imraan Coovadia at the Complete Review
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- Nonfiction: A New View of Evolution That Can’t Be Represented by a TreeDavid Quammen has written a sprawling history of evolutionary genetics, “The Tangled Tree,” that complicates familiar notions of how species evolved.
- Nonfiction: What Role Do Teachers Play in Education?Andrea Gabor’s “After the Education Wars” looks at efforts to reform the classroom through technology and standardized testing.
- By the Book: Rebecca Solnit: By the BookThe author, most recently, of the essay collection “Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises” keeps an eye on the “daily eruptions of the internet”: “Like a lot of us, I’m hypervigilant about the crazy stuff going on.”
- The Enthusiast: In Praise of Karel Capek“This is the power of ‘War With the Newts’: It leaves us staring with bewilderment at the ways that we — with our tiny acts of greed and insensitivity and willful blindness — did all this.”
- Crime: From a Marsh to a Mountain, Crime Fiction Heads OutdoorsMarilyn Stasio’s selections take readers to a North Carolina swamp, a peak in Minnesota and a jungle in Laos, with a pit stop at a California beach.
- Fiction: Two New Novels Expose the Fracturing of the American Nuclear Family, From Midcentury to TodayCherise Wolas’s “The Family Tabor” and Rick Gekoski’s “A Long Island Story” both witness the unraveling of prominent Jewish families.
- Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This WeekSuggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
- The Book Review: Rethinking the ‘Tangled Tree’ of Life“We are composites of various creatures,” David Quammen says. “We are mosaics.”
- Nonfiction: Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling InequalityIn “Winners Take All,” Anand Giridharadas explores a global elite that bemoans the state of the world while refusing to seek real, structural change.
- John Calder, British Publisher Who Fought Censorship, Dies at 91His authors included Samuel Beckett and Henry Miller, and he fought in court to publish “Last Exit to Brooklyn,” which had been ruled obscene.
- Books News: A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-LaThe Kingdom of Bhutan, tucked away in the Himalayas, just got TV. Now it’s home to ambitious young authors who are telling their country’s stories for the first time, usually in English.
- ‘This Story Transcends Race’: Kevin Kwan on the Appeal of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’The author of the novel, from which the movie was adapted, talks about how the film is opening new doors for its cast and why it’s making white men cry.
- Sketchbook | Graphic Review: A Graphic Tribute to a Classic Work of Paleontological LiteratureThe children’s book author and illustrator David Nytra draws a review of William E. Scheele’s “Prehistoric Animals.”
- Children’s Books: Charming, Plucky Picture Books That Ease Back-to-Class JittersThe very best kids’ books — like these — help the under-10 set work through their fears.
- Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review ArchivesIn which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species.”
- Inside the List: ‘It’s So Hard for Parents to Imagine Their Children Shooting Up Heroin’: Beth Macy on ‘Dopesick’Back in 2012, Macy, a journalist, wrote articles about suburban heroin addiction. In a new book she’s widened her lens, exploring the roots of the national opioid crisis.
- New in Paperback: ‘Democracy in Chains,’ ‘Black Mad Wheel’Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
- Nonfiction: A Writer’s Trip Into the Amazon Reveals Brazil and HimselfChris Feliciano Arnold’s “The Third Bank of the River” is a reported and personal look at the problems plaguing the Amazon and its people.
- Nonfiction: Searching for Language to Capture How Climate Change Has Altered Our WorldIn “Rising,” Elizabeth Rush surveys the new contours of an America already changed by rising waters.
- Fiction: Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a NovelIn “Never Anyone but You,” Rupert Thomson reimagines the lives of the Surrealist icons Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.
- Letters to the EditorReaders respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
- Newsbook: Read These 3 Books About Gun Violence in ChicagoTwo books explain the contributing factors, while a young adult novel shows the toll it takes on a teenager.
- Nonfiction: An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a LifeTracy Franz’s “My Year of Dirt and Water” considers the paradoxical experience of being married to a Buddhist monk, cloistered in a Japanese temple.
- Light Reading: Using the Hashtag #ShareYourRejection, Writers Are Tweeting about Their Rocky Paths to PublicationIt’s not all glamour and prizes.
- Nonfiction: A Critic Who Worships Literature, and Defends His Faith AccordinglyIn his passionate new essay collection, “American Audacity,” William Giraldi fiercely emphasizes the cultural importance of high literary standards.
- Nonfiction: The Street Where ‘They Do Strange Things’Alice Sparberg Alexiou’s history of the Bowery, “Devil’s Mile,” is a narrative not only of the famous street but also of New York City.
- Books of The Times: Expressing Complicated Love for Lauryn Hill as an Iconic Album Turns 20In “She Begat This: 20 Years of ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,’” Joan Morgan makes a case for Hill’s artistic and historical importance while also paying attention to the stickier parts of the star’s career.
- The Shortlist: Eats of EdenSink your teeth into three tasty new food memoirs — Rick Bragg’s “The Best Cook in the World,” Edward Lee’s “Buttermilk Graffiti” and Lidia Bastianich’s “My American Dream.”
- Books of The Times: Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’Olga Tokarczuk’s novel, the winner of this year’s Man Booker International Prize, is full of bizarre and harrowing stories that blend fiction and fact.
- JT Leroy Film With Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart to Close Toronto Film FestThe festival also announced a period drama with Chris Pine as its opening night film.
- Nonfiction: On the Ground in Afghanistan and IraqC.J. Chivers’s “The Fighters” provides gut-wrenching descriptions of the battles in the Middle East.
- New & NoteworthyA selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
- Essay: The Virtues of Shelf-lessnessSloane Crosley makes the case for a nontraditional, at-home alternative to the Dewey Decimal System.
- Match Book: Aspiring Memoirist Seeking Famous Writers’ Letters and Essays for InspirationFrom Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield to Yiyun Li and Heidi Julavits, Do Diarists Ever Truly Reveal Themselves?
- Nonfiction: Why We Should Never Expect to Discover Sentient Ice CubesCharles S. Cockell’s “The Equations of Life” argues that physics constrains evolution so that life is not endlessly variable, but actually quite predictable.
- Books of The Times: A Case for the New Jazz Sound That Will Inspire PlaylistsIn “Playing Changes,” Nate Chinen argues that we’re living in a brilliant new phase of jazz, and offers an annotated guide to his favorite performers.
- Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Feminist, Activist and Author, Dies at 72She helped shape new ways of thinking about Jewish identity, including challenging the Zionist notion that Israel must be honored as the homeland.
- Front Burner: The History of France, Told Through Food“A Bite-Sized History of France” covers wines, cheeses and the invention of canned food preservation.