"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
—Barbara Tuchman
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- ArtsBeat: The Sweet Spot Video: The Books of Summer Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:47:12 GMT
- In this week’s video, A. O. Scott, David Carr and others discuss what they will be reading this summer.
 
- Children’s Books: ‘Octopus Alone,’ by Divya Srinivasan, and More Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:46:36 GMT
- New picture books about a fish and a snail that live in a book, the creator of a submarine, and more.
- Children’s Books: ‘Giant Dance Party,’ by Betsy Bird, and More Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:53:36 GMT
- New picture books about parties include pirates, blue furry giants and a birthday feast.
- Crime: Carl Hiaasen’s ‘Bad Monkey,’ and More Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:29:57 GMT
- Carl Hiaasen’s “Bad Monkey” is another misadventure in the annals of greed and corruption in South Florida, “the Medicare-fraud capital of America.”
- Benjamin Percy’s ‘Red Moon’ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:29:45 GMT
- In Benjamin Percy’s novel, the misunderstood lycanthrope population is being persecuted. And they’re not going to take it anymore.
- ‘The Dispensable Nation’ and ‘Foreign Policy Begins at Home’ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:26:04 GMT
- Two foreign policy figures criticize, from differing directions, President Obama’s program.
- Children’s Books: ‘The Servant’ and ‘The Wall’ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:25:39 GMT
- Two teenage protagonists strain against expectations in the Middle East.
- Children’s Books: ‘The Favorite Daughter’ and ‘The Thing About Luck’ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:25:28 GMT
- First- and second-generation American girls make their own way in these tales.
- Inside the List Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:24:31 GMT
- Colum McCann says that in writing about Frederick Douglass for his novel “TransAtlantic” (at No. 13 on the hardcover fiction list), he saw surprising parallels to President Obama.
- Paperback Row Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:24:13 GMT
- Paperback books of particular interest.
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