Book Reviews
Essay: Beautiful Creatures
Charles Kingsley’s 150-year-old morality fable reflects the contradictory impulses of the Victorian era.
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‘The Humanity Project,’ by Jean Thompson
At the center of the plot lines in Jean Thompson’s novel is a philanthropist who wants to bribe people into virtue.
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Inside the List
“Happy, Happy, Happy” by Phil Robertson is No. 1 on the hardcover nonfiction list — the second best seller spawned by the reality show “Duck Dynasty.”
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‘To Save Everything, Click Here,’ by Evgeny Morozov
The digital-age transparency we’ve grown accustomed to may threaten the spirit of democracy, Evgeny Morozov warns.
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‘The Letters of William Gaddis’
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‘All the Great Prizes,’ by John Taliaferro
From the birth of the Republican Party to the Spanish-American War, John Hay was a seminal 19th-century figure.
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Audiobooks: When Words Sing
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‘Woke Up Lonely,’ by Fiona Maazel
Fiona Maazel’s antic new novel examines the contradictory but concurrent urges for solitude and intimacy.
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Tom Drury’s ‘Pacific’
The troubles of Tom Drury’s characters seem to stretch back into the inscrutable past, and out into an equally murky future.
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‘Top of the Morning,’ by Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter recounts the intrigue, infighting and personal crises in the morning TV shows’ ratings wars.
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‘Constance,’ by Patrick McGrath
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Open Book: New in the Review
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Letter: Be True to Your Work
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