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Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel [12 Jun 2015|01:28pm]
A writer finds a wider audience with “The Book of Numbers,” a novel about government spying and corporate big data that bears a close resemblance to reality.







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Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen’s Internet Novel [12 Jun 2015|01:28pm]
A writer finds a wider audience with “Book of Numbers,” a novel about government spying and corporate big data that bears a close resemblance to reality.







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‘Stalin’s Daughter,’ by Rosemary Sullivan [12 Jun 2015|03:23pm]
Stalin’s daughter tried to escape his shadow by defecting to the United States.







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‘Backlands,’ by Victoria Shorr [12 Jun 2015|03:24pm]
Led by a charismatic, one-eyed rebel and his lover, an outlaw gang roams the Brazilian badlands in the 1920s and ’30s.







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The Shortlist: Literary Lives [12 Jun 2015|03:24pm]
New novels explore the lives of Virginia Woolf, George Sand and Emily Dickinson.







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‘The Dorito Effect,’ by Mark Schatzker [12 Jun 2015|03:26pm]
Food producers focus on factors such as yield, at the expense of flavor.







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Paperback Row [12 Jun 2015|04:32pm]
Paperback books of particular interest.







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Open Book: The Friendly, Heavy Skies [12 Jun 2015|04:33pm]
A new oversize book showcases advertisements for air travel in the postwar years.







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‘How to Bake Pi,’ by Eugenia Cheng [12 Jun 2015|04:39pm]
Recipes for tapping the logic and beauty of mathematics.







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‘Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead,’ by Rosabeth Moss Kanter [12 Jun 2015|04:49pm]
What it will take to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure.







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‘It Starts With Trouble,’ by Clark Davis [12 Jun 2015|04:54pm]
William Goyen’s work harks back to his East Texas roots.







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‘Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist,’ by Pierre Birnbaum [12 Jun 2015|05:00pm]
Léon Blum led France to reform in the Depression era.







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Inside the List [12 Jun 2015|05:07pm]
Judy Blume, whose adult novel “In the Unlikely Event” is No. 4 on the hardcover fiction list, had two million books in print in 1976, well before The Times had a children’s best-seller list.







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Editors’ Choice [12 Jun 2015|05:14pm]
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.







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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: ‘Stalin’s Daughter’ [12 Jun 2015|10:09pm]
Rosemary Sullivan discusses “Stalin’s Daughter,” Eugenia Cheng talks about “How to Bake Pi” and Judd Apatow on his reading habits.







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Author’s Note: Surveillance States [12 Jun 2015|10:31pm]
The author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” on writing under the eye of a watchful government.







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Bookshelf: A Tale of Two Cities, in 1886, and Events That Shaped a State [12 Jun 2015|10:50pm]
New books portray Henry George, the “single tax” proponent, who was almost elected New York mayor, and look at significant chapters in the state’s history.







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ArtsBeat: Harper Lee Letters Fail to Sell at Auction [12 Jun 2015|11:00pm]
The letters were estimated to be worth between $150,000 and $250,000; the bidding opened at $80,000 and stopped at $90,000.







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