New York Times Book Review

Jeffrey Fisher 'NeuroTribes,' by Steve Silberman By JENNIFER SENIOR A science journalist's reading of medical history suggests that the "autism pandemic" is an optical illusion.	Gary He/Facebook, via Associated Press 'The Prize,' by Dale Russakoff By ALEX KOTLOWITZ What happened when two politicians and a tech billionaire set out to reform a city's schools.
Beowulf Sheehan 'A Window Opens,' by Elisabeth Egan By AMANDA FORTINI A bibliophile's new full-time job disrupts her cherished work-life equilibrium. Elisabeth Egan's 'A Window Opens' Has Echoes of Her Amazon Odyssey	Eric Nyquist 'The Shape of the New,' by Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot By FAREED ZAKARIA A pair of scholars tease out the central notions that have given rise to the modern age.

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Adam McCauley 'The Road Not Taken,' by David Orr By ADAM PLUNKETT David Orr on the classic American poem almost everyone gets hopelessly wrong.	Mark Todd Mario Vargas Llosa's 'Notes on the Death of Culture' By JOSHUA COHEN A Nobel laureate weighs in on the diffusion of culture and the loss of common referents.
Illustration by Jillian Tamaki R. L. Stine: By the Book The author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series avoids nonfiction: "I never read it. I hate anything real." By the Book: Archive	Illustrations by R. Kikuo Johnson Bookends Why Get an M.F.A.? Siddhartha Deb and Ayana Mathis discuss the worth of graduate writing programs. Bookends: Archive |
David Plunkert 'Everybody Rise,' by Stephanie Clifford By REBECCA MEAD An ambitious New Yorker insinuates herself into the old guard in the years before the financial crisis.	Pascal Lemaître Author's Note Whose Side Are You On? By MAILE MELOY If you don't have kids, you tend to identify with the children in any story.

Nonfiction

'Most Likely to Succeed,' by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith By LISA MILLER 'The Two-State Delusion,' by Padraig O'Malley By PETER BEINART 'We Believe the Children,' by Richard Beck By KAY HYMOWITZ 'Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word,' by Matthew Battles By DAVID SHIELDS

'The Gift of Failure,' by Jessica Lahey By JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS 'Machines of Loving Grace,' by John Markoff By DAVID ALAN GRIER 'Young Eliot,' by Robert Crawford By DAVID YEZZI 'Faith Ed.,' by Linda K. Wertheimer By NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY