New York Times Book Reviews
Arts, Briefly: A New Light on Woolf
An archive of letters from the collections of the novelist Rosamond Lehmann and the writer Frances Partridge may shed light on the suicide of Virginia Woolf, The Guardian reported.
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Books of The Times: Close-Up Portraits of Paul Newman and Martha Stewart
Paul Newman and Martha Stewart share the dubious distinction of being the subjects of “and Me” books, each written by a self-proclaimed dear friend.
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Off the Shelf: ‘The Road From Ruin’: How to Avoid Another Crisis
In a new book, Matthew Bishop and Michael Green say that “toxic ideas,” not toxic assets, caused the financial crisis.
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Charles Muscatine, Chaucer Scholar, Dies at 89
Mr. Muscatine was a scholar who transformed Chaucer studies by turning attention to the French models for Chaucer’s poetry and an education reformer.
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Nonfiction Chronicle - Books by Alex Lemon, Daniel Menaker, C. S. Manegold and Malcolm Jones
Memoirs of surviving brain surgery and a difficult childhood, a primer on the art of conversation and a history of a northern slave estate.
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Book Review | 'Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy,' by Paula Butturini
A memoir of how cooking helped save the marriage of Paula Butturini and her husband, reporters traumatized by war.
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Book Review | 'The Harvard Psychedelic Club,' by Don Lattin
A group portrait of Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil and their experiments with hallucinogens in the early 1960s.
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Book Review | 'Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History,' by David Aaronovitch
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Book Review | 'The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,' by Elif Batuman
An entertaining memoir-cum-travelogue of a grad student’s improbable education in Russian language and literature.
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Essay: The Making of the President, Then and Now
The great campaign books of the past are about more than the back-room drama that dominates recent releases.
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Book Review | 'Blooms of Darkness,' by Aharon Appelfeld
In this novel with echoes of Anne Frank’s diary, a Jewish child is hidden in a brothel during the Holocaust.
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TBR: Inside the List
The comedian Chelsea Handler beats out Karl Rove for the top spot on the hardcover nonfiction list with her new collection.
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Book Review | 'Occupied City,' by David Peace
A real-life mass poisoning in Tokyo in 1948, possibly linked to notorious wartime medical experiments, is the basis for this highly original crime novel.
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