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Katherine Boo’s ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’ Explores a Mumbai Slum (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Katherine Boo’s first book explores the lives of residents in a Mumbai slum.

Author: By PANKAJ MISHRA | Category: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Book) | More...

Charles Murray Examines the White Working Class in ‘Coming Apart’ (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Charles Murray argues that the white working class is no longer a virtuous silent majority.

Author: By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | Category: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Book) | More...

Susan Cain’s ‘Quiet’ Argues for the Power of Introverts (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Introverts should be valued more highly in American culture, Susan Cain asserts.

Author: By JUDITH WARNER | Category: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Book) | More...

Trea Martyn Writes of Rivalries Among Queen Elizabeth I’s Courtiers (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Rival courtiers created extravagant gardens to compete for the favor of Queen Elizabeth I.

Author: By MIRANDA SEYMOUR | Category: Queen Elizabeth in the Garden (Book) | More...

‘Three Weeks in December,’ by Audrey Schulman (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Audrey Schulman’s novel follows the expeditions of two unusual Americans.

Author: By BRUCE BARCOTT | Category: Three Weeks in December (Book) | More...

Crime: ‘What It Was,’ by George Pelecanos, and Other New Crime Novels (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Characters from two series of novels cross paths in George Pelecanos’s “What It Was.”

Author: By MARILYN STASIO | Category: What It Was (Book) | More...

‘Gathering of Waters,’ by Bernice L. McFadden (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
This novel draws upon the 1927 Mississippi River flood and the death of Emmett Till.

Author: By JESMYN WARD | Category: Gathering of Waters (Book) | More...

‘Norumbega Park,’ by Anthony Giardina (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
A family pursues the American dream in Anthony Giardina’s novel.

Author: By JENNIFER GILMORE | Category: Norumbega Park (Book) | More...

Children's Books: Picture Books About Resourceful Children (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Three picture books feature inspiringly resourceful children.

Author: By RACHAEL BROWN | Category: Barnett, Mac | More...

Children's Books: Francesca Lia Block’s ‘Pink Smog,’ a Weetzie Bat Prequel (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
An early look at Francesca Lia Block’s heroine, Weetzie Bat.

Author: By MAGGIE STIEFVATER | Category: Books and Literature | More...

Children's Books: Bookshelf: Black History (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Children’s books about pivotal figures and events in the history of black Americans.

Author: By PAMELA PAUL | Category: When Grandmama Sings (Book) | More...

Children's Books: ‘The Case of the Deadly Desperados,’ by Caroline Lawrence (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
The protagonist of this western is an orphan with Asperger’s syndrome.

Author: By PRISCILLA GILMAN | Category: Case of the Deadly Desperados, The: Western Mysteries, Book 1 (Book) | More...

Children's Books: Bookshelf: Hug and Kiss (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Children’s books about displays of affection.

Author: By PAMELA PAUL | Category: Big Hugs, Little Hugs (Book) | More...

Children's Books: ‘The Lions of Little Rock,’ by Kristin Levine (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Separated by race in the civil-rights-era South, two girls form an unbreakable bond in Kristin Levine’s novel.

Author: By TANYA LEE STONE | Category: Lions of Little Rock, The (Book) | More...

Children's Books: ‘In Darkness,’ by Nick Lake (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Nick Lake’s novel, set in Haiti, alternates between the country’s violent past and its tumultuous present.

Author: By KATIE ORENSTEIN | Category: In Darkness (Book) | More...

Letters: Topic of Miller (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Readers respond to a recent review of Frederick Turner’s “Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of ‘Tropic of Cancer.’”

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Books F.A.Q. (Thu, 09 Sep 2010)
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‘At Last,’ the Final Installment of Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose Cycle (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Edward St. Aubyn’s self-destructive hero Patrick Melrose returns in a new novel.

Author: By FRANCINE PROSE | Category: At Last (Book) | More...

Essay: Elizabeth Taylor — the Novelist, That Is (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
The English novelist Elizabeth Taylor wrote with humor and sympathy about women who silently suffered as they sought to assert themselves in the world.

Author: By CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA | Category: Books and Literature | More...

ArtsBeat: Black and White: Charles Murray and Baratunde Thurston Quiz Each Other (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Charles Murray, author of "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010," and Baratunde Thurston, author of "How to Be Black," answer questions about race and class from each other's books.

Author: By GREGORY COWLES | Category: Baratunde Thurston | More...

ArtsBeat: Radio Play of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' Is Set (Wed, 08 Feb 2012)
Live performances of the play, with a cast that features Phylicia Rashad and Leslie Uggams and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, will be recorded for a planned national broadcast in September.

Author: By DAVE ITZKOFF | Category: Books | More...

ArtsBeat: Wendell Berry to Give 2012 Jefferson Lecture (Mon, 06 Feb 2012)
The farmer-writer Wendell Berry is chosen to give the 2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, considered the federal government's most prestigious honor for intellectual achievement in the humanities.

Author: By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER | Category: Berry, Wendell | More...

Archive: Book Review Podcast (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
This week, Nicholas Confessore discusses Charles Murray’s provocative new book about white America; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Francine Prose talks about “At Last” by Edward St. Aubyn; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.

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Up Front (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
The “naturally tweedy” Bruce Barcott goes on extreme adventures to write about remote and majestic locations.

Author: By THE EDITORS | Category: Books and Literature | More...

TBR: Inside the List (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
The provocative social scientist Charles Murray and the comedian Baratunde Thurston answer each other’s quizzes about racial identity.

Author: By GREGORY COWLES | Category: Books and Literature | More...

Editors’ Choice (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

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Paperback Row (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Paperback books of particular interest.

Author: By IHSAN TAYLOR | Category: Books and Literature | More...

The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues (Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
Complete contents of the Book Review since 1997.

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Holiday Gift Guide: 10 Best Books of 2011 (Wed, 21 Dec 2011)
The Book Review picks the year’s best fiction and nonfiction.

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Holiday Gift Guide: 100 Notable Books of 2011 (Fri, 02 Dec 2011)
The Book Review’s annual list.

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Children’s Books Spring Special Section (Sat, 06 Nov 2010)
The Book Review’s spring roundup of the best of what’s new in children’s literature.

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Talk to the Newsroom: Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus (Thu, 12 Jan 2012)
Sam Tanenhaus has been editor of the Book Review since April 2004.

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