Sunday, May 17, 2015

New York Times Book Reviews


'Rise of the Robots' and 'Shadow Work'

"Rise of the Robots" explores how technology threatens even the nimblest and most expensively educated, and "Shadow Work" shines light on the increase of unpaid work.
Also in the Book Review
Joseph J. Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis: By the Book

The historian and author, most recently, of "The Quartet" keeps Plato, Kant, Hume, Locke and Nietzsche on his shelves. "Just looking over at them reminds me that once upon a time I was a very serious young man."

'Elon Musk'

After a series of tech ventures, Elon Musk has turned to electric cars and space travel.
Anne Enright

'The Green Road'

An Irish family disperses, reuniting for what might be a final holiday in the family home.
Oliver Sacks, circa 2001.

'On the Move'

In this memoir, Oliver Sacks abandons the restraint that characterized his earlier accounts and reveals his vulnerabilities.

'The Dig'

The fates of two men - a badger baiter and a grieving sheep farmer - converge in rural Wales.

Audiobooks

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami's 'Strange Library' and 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage'

Two novels offer a deadpan mix of comedy, menace and the just plain odd.

'Future Crimes'

Emerging technologies can easily be turned against us, a cybersecurity expert warns.
Jo Nesbo

'Blood on Snow'

Jo Nesbo's latest protagonist is a contract killer with a problem.
On Poetry

Toward an Oral Art

Shouldn't it be easier to listen to poetry?
Amanda Filipacchi

'The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty'

The heroine of this novel must deal with a beauty so extreme that she must conceal it.

'The American People: Volume 1'

H.I.V. has been with us all along, and is even a character in Larry Kramer's novel of American history.
Renata Adler, 1970.

'After the Tall Timber'

Over three decades of Renata Adler's essays, criticism and long-form journalism.
A marijuana grow room in Colorado.

'Weed the People'

More than 40 years after Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs, America is rethinking its relationship to marijuana.
Amit Chaudhuri

'Odysseus Abroad'

Strolling in London with his uncle offers a student an escape from loneliness.

'The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay'

A woman loves the men she grew up with and marries one.

'Voices in the Night'

Ordinary lives are touched by myth in Steven Millhauser's tales.
James Merrill in 1977, the year his book

'James Merrill: Life and Art'

A biography of James Merrill looks at the work that grew from his life, and at his literary collaboration with a longtime partner.
Joseph Goebbels

'Goebbels: A Biography'

The implausible career of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, who followed the Führer even in death.
Dan Pope

'Housebreaking'

A move to the suburbs sets off a spate of reckless behavior.
Karl Taro Greenfeld

'The Subprimes'

Debt and bad credit doom two families to a life of squatting.
President Richard Nixon and the evangelist Billy Graham, 1970.

'One Nation Under God'

A historian considers how and why Americans make such a conspicuous display of their faith.
Crime

Walter Mosley's 'And Sometimes I Wonder About You,' and More

Mosley breaks every rule in the private-detective-story stylebook in his new mystery

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