Sunday, October 19, 2014

Books Update at The New York Times

'The Invisible History of the Human Race'

By CHRISTINE KENNEALLY
Reviewed by DAVID DOBBS
Christine Kenneally explores what DNA can tell us about our ancestors and the rest of human history.


Neil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick Harris: By the Book

The author of "Choose Your Own Autobiography" loved "Gone Girl": "I devoured the acknowledgments, the book cover flaps, the ISBN, you name it. If it had been like a DVD, I could have read the 'making of' the writing of the book. I was that into it."
·         By the Book: Archive

'Spoiled Brats'

By SIMON RICH
Reviewed by PATTON OSWALT
Simon Rich's humorous stories take on the millennial generation.
The electric chair at Sing Sing prison in Ossining, N.Y., in 1953.

'Just Mercy'

By BRYAN STEVENSON
Reviewed by TED CONOVER
A lawyer personalizes the struggle against injustice with the story of a man wrongfully convicted of murder.

'Mr. Bones: Twenty Stories'

By PAUL THEROUX
Reviewed by FRANCINE PROSE
Men follow their compulsions, and sometimes receive their comeuppance, in Paul Theroux's stories.

David Bezmozgis'The Betrayers'

By DAVID BEZMOZGIS
Reviewed by BORIS FISHMAN
Two Soviet Jews - an Israeli politician and a disgraced K.G.B. informer - are reunited decades after a devastating betrayal.
WuDunn and Kristof

'A Path Appears'

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN
Reviewed by PAUL COLLIER
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn show how to make a difference in the lives of the disadvantaged.

Nell Zink'The Wallcreeper'

By NELL ZINK
Reviewed by ROBIN ROMM
The wallcreeper of this novel's title and its protagonist both crave freedom.

'The Sense of Style'

By STEVEN PINKER
Reviewed by CHARLES McGRATH
In his writing guide, the Harvard polymath Steven Pinker favors looser, more easygoing grammatical usage.

'Corruption in America'

A reproduction of an 1871 Thomas Nast cartoon about a Tammany Hall scandal.By ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Reviewed by THOMAS FRANK
In Zephyr Teachout's history of American political corruption, the main target is the current money-in-politics doctrine.

Lyndon B. Johnson, 1967; Ronald Reagan, 1969.'Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America'

By JONATHAN DARMAN
Reviewed by SEAN WILENTZ
Jonathan Darman's history of the 1960s weaves together accounts of the activities of Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan.
Crime

Gone to the Dogs

By MARILYN STASIO
In John Sandford's "Deadline," dogs are being stolen and auctioned off for resale as laboratory animals.

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